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better their work in agricultural instruction. Effort should be made 

 another year to secure a special fund for the extension of agricultural 

 knowledge to the teachers and pupils of the public schools. Through this 

 work we are reaching every year hundreds of children who may not even 

 be able to attend high school. They have but little reading matter and 

 are therefore glad to read the Leaflets. The better class of teachers' now 

 going into the rural schools are ready to do real work if they get the help. 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, 

 Lecturer in Rural Education. 



