Extension Department Ixix 



Office of Administration 



Extension schools. — In view of the general shortage of farm labor, 

 making it difificuh for farmers to leave their routine work, it was thought 

 advisable to reduce the niimber of five-day schools in favor of one-day com- 

 munity meetings. A summarized statement of the schools held follows: 



Number of schools held 29 



Counties reached 20 



Total enrollment 993 



Average enrollment 34.2 



Highest enrollment (at Avon) 115 



Lowest enrollment (at Freehold) 15 



Highest percentage of attendance (at Phelps) 74 



Average attendance per session 17.4 



Average number of instructors per school 2.9 



Length of school season (weeks) 12 



Instruction was given as follows: of"™ay7 



Agricultural chemistry 4 



Animal husbandry 92^ 



Entomology 2 



Farm crops 19 



Farm mechanics 11 



Farm management 2 1| 



Pomology 18^ 



Plant breeding 11 



Plant diseases 28 



Poultry 15^ 



Soils 68^ 



Vegetable gardening ii| 



The accompanying map (page Ixx) shows the location of schools during 

 the season 19 17-18. 



In addition to the foregoing, attention should be called to the tractor 

 schools conducted by cooperation between the College and the New York 

 State Food Commission, a record of which is included with the report of 

 the Department of Rural Engineering. 



With the larger growth of the farm bureau organization and the greater 

 number of informal community meetings, opportunity is at hand for the 

 further anticipated development of the extension schools to make them 

 more advanced, so that they may continue to appeal primarily to the 

 more forward-looking and intelligent farmers. To this end instruction 

 in a given school will hereafter generally be confined to one subject 

 instead of from two to three, presenting such relatively restricted phases 



