io8 



Department of Extension Teaching. 



Farmers' Wives' Reading Course 16,290 



Home Nature-Study 2,475 



Rural School Leaflets (teachers) 3,ooo 



R. S. L. (boys and girls) 50,000 



Total 106,240 



Second, the direct office correspondence, the Reading Course presenting 

 questions and answers, official correspondence relative to fairs, trains, 

 institutes, and the like. Third, the referring of a large number of subject- 

 matter questions to the departments concerned. This correspondence has 

 grown beyond the limit of our present stenographic force. The public 

 office of the Extension Department received 11,315 letters during the year 

 and wrote 8,783 letters exclusive of circulars. 



Below is given a statement of the Farmers' Reading Course enrollment 

 at the period September 15 to 30, 1910. 



New Readers. 



Series 



I Soil 



II Stockfeeding . . . . 



III Orcharding 



IV Poultry 



V Dairying 



VI Farm buildings . . . 



VII Helps for reading. 



VIII Miscellaneous . . . . 



IX Breeding 



X Horse production , 



Sept. 15 to 

 30, 1910. 



10 



TO 



7 



m • 



14 



13 

 18 



9 

 8 



14 



Total since 

 Previously reported Oct. i, 

 since Oct. i, 1909. 1009. 



274 



399 

 812 



340 

 292 

 211 

 192 

 1,032 



377 



528 

 284 

 406 

 812 



354 



305 

 229 



201 



1,040 



391 



103 



4447 



4.550 



