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camps have been detailed on minor rearrangement problems, and even 

 on the planting of the grounds about the hospitals and recreational 

 buildings. Many students have gone into engineers' regiments, some into 

 the camouflage units, and others in France into the reconstruction work 

 of laying out temporary and replanning old settlements. Systematic 

 correspondence is being maintained with all students in war service and 

 careful records are kept of their activities. 



Extension. — The purpose of the extension work of the Department is 

 to improve country-life conditions in the home, the school, and the 

 village, and to enhance the value of farm property by better arrange- 

 -ment of buildings and grounds and by more attractive plantings of trees, 

 shrubs, and vines. On the request of county agents, school supervisors, 

 village improvement societies, and individuals, visits have been arranged, 

 illustrated lectures given, and data taken from which plans and recom- 

 mendations have been prepared. Correspondence and later visits have 

 been made to follow up this work of improvement. In addition it is 

 planned to make a limited nimiber of demonstrations of the arrangement, 

 grading, and planting, where the finished result will serve as a model for 

 the whole community. 



A new extension instructor has been giving full time to the organization 

 of this phase of the work during the past year. An increasing number of 

 extension letters have been answered and one new piece of work has 

 been begun. This is the making of farm landscape surveys to record the 

 actual conditions of arrangement and adaptation of farm lands, for use 

 in the different farm types throughout the State. The work has been 

 carried on in connection with the Department • of Rural Engineering, 

 two representatives, one from each Department, having worked together 

 on a two-days survey once a week during the spring months. This survey 

 will give reliable data on which to make studies and recommendations 

 for future improvements, and is essentially fundamental to a sound exten- 

 sion policy. It is directly in line with the earlier extension program of 

 the Department as outlined in the Annual Report f or 1 9 1 5 : "A landscape 

 survey of New York State should be made, with a photographic record 

 of the actual landscape setting, including the farm home, the country 

 roadside, the rural school, the village and town centers, the state institu- 

 tions, the railroad lines, the barge canal, and all other important features 

 that contribute to the landscape of the State." 



