112 



Department of Extension Teaching. 



Ontario . . . . 

 Orange . . . . 

 Orleans . . . . 

 Oswego . . . . 



Otsego 



Putnam . . . . 

 Queens . . . . 

 Rensselaer . , 

 Richmond . . , 

 Rockland . . . 

 St. Lawrence 

 Saratoga . . , 

 Schenectady . 

 Schoharie . . . 

 Schuyler . . . 



189 Seneca 80 



210 Steuben 180 



155 Suffolk no 



285 Sullivan 50 



200 Tioga no 



15 Tompkins 250 



85 Ulster 135 



95 Warren 25 



25 Washington 90 



35 Wayne 155 



400 Westchester 125 



50 Wyoming 150 



100 Yates 50 



35 



45 Total 10,309 



3. The actual demonstration of ideas in barn or field, or wherever the 

 farmer's problems are, must be met at first hand. As secretary of the 

 New York State Experimenters' League the writer advertises and 

 promotes the cooperative experiments as outlined by the different de- 

 partments, referring the correspondence as it arises to the departments 

 concerned. Some 450 such demonstrations or cooperative experiments 

 were conducted during the year, and personal visits were made to some 

 of the experimenters. 



As a civil service conductor of farmers' institutes in the State Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and under direction of the Director of the College, 

 the writer arranged or helped to arrange for some twenty field demonstra- 

 tions during the months of July, August, and September, 1910. Definite 

 results were shown at first hand at these field meetings, which pointed 

 the way toward a new type of actual contact-teaching. 



EXTENSION ACTIVITIES OF THE FIELD AGENT, 

 JOHN W. SPENCER. 



In connection with the attached report of the meetings and conferences 

 attended by Mr, Spencer, I have to submit that he has done a large amount 

 of personal work, individual conferences, and the like, of which there is 

 no tabulation. 



We are now working on a scheme of definite itineraries, of coopera- 

 tion with school, grange, church, and other institutions, so that more defi- 

 nite data will be at hand at the close of the next fiscal year. 



Mr. Spencer has special work for the State paper of the Patrons of 

 Husbandry. His articles there and numerous others in various publi- 



