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THE CORNELL READING-COURSE FOR THE FARM 



This course has been provided to meet the needs of persons who desire 

 to study agriculture but are unable to leave their present work. It 

 consists of definite series of lessons on practical agricultural problems, 

 with several numbers in each series. Readers enroll for one or more 

 series and receive lessons one at a time. The Reading-Course for the 

 Farm, therefore, is a means of conducting a course of study at home 

 and of keeping in constant touch with the latest ideas on agriculture. 



A supplement containing questions (for this reason called a discussion 

 paper) is sent with each lesson. It is recommended that the reader 

 answer the questions, but he is not required to do so. It is necessary, 

 however, that the discussion paper be signed and returned, as an indica- 

 tion that the reader desires the following lesson in the series. Readers 

 are encouraged to use the discussion paper for asking questions on any 

 points not made clear in the lesson. If assistance is desired for solving 

 agricultural problems, requests for information may be made on the dis- 

 cussion paper. Such requests are referred to members of the College 

 Staff for personal reply. 



The Cornell Reading-Course for the Farm is not a " correspondence 

 course " as the term is commonly understood, but it is a means of pro- 

 viding information on elementary agricultural subjects and on important 

 farm and general rural problems. It aims to lead the reader to express 

 his own opinions on different subjects and to discuss his own experience. 

 Such readers as desire to go furtlier may receive suggestions for advanced 

 study. The lessons are numbered for each year from 2 to 24 by even 

 numbers, being published alternately with the Lessons on the Farm Home. 



The Cornell Reading-Course for the Farm is an enlargement and 

 revision of the fonner Farmers' Reading-Course. Some of the bulletins 

 of the Farmers' Reading-Course are still available. As these cannot 

 be mailed at pound rates, postage should be included when they are 

 called for, allowing one cent for each bulletin. On the last page of this 

 lesson is a list of available back numbers of the former Farmers' Reading- 

 Course and lessons of the present course, arranged by series. 



