Supplement to 



CORNELL 



1Rea6ino*(Xour8e for ^farmers 



PubijIshed by the Collegk op Agkiculture op Cornell University, 

 FROM November to March, and Entered at Ithaca as Second-class 

 Matter under Act of Congress of July 16, 1891. L. H. Bailey, Director. 



SERIES VI. ITHACA, N. Y., No. 27. 



BUILDINGS AND YARDS. DECEMBER, 1905. FARM YARDS. 



DISCUSSION-PAPER ON FARMERS' READING-COURSE 



BULLETIN NO. 2^ 



This Discussion-paper is sent out with all Farmers Reading-Course 

 Bulletins, for tico reasons: (i) II' e should like to have your ozvn ideas 

 on these subjects. On some of these points you have probably had expe- 

 rience zvhtch zvill be interesting and valuable to us. iVo matter zvhat the 

 Bulletin says, if you have different opinions on any of these subjects, do 

 not hesitate to state them on this paper and give your reasons. (2) We 

 should like you to use 'this paper on zvhich.to ask us questions. If there 

 are any points zvhich the Bulletin has not made clear, or if there are any 

 problems in your farming, zvhether on these subjects or others on zdxich 

 you think zve may be able to help you, zvrite to us on this paper. 



The next Reading-Course Bulletins will be sent to those who 

 return to us this dlscussion-paper^ which will be an acknowledg- 

 MENT OF THE RECEIPT OF THE BULLETIN (2c. postage). This paper zcill 

 not be returned to you, but z^'e shall look it over as carefully as zve zvould 

 a personal letter and zvrite to you if there are any points about zvhich 

 correspondence is desirable. You may consider this Discussion-paper, 

 then, as a personal letter to us. It zvill be treated as such, and under no 

 circumstances zvill your remarks be mode public. 



If you are not interested in this Reading-Course Bulletin, zve have 

 others on other subjects, and zve shall be glad to send any of these to you 

 on request. The titles of the si.v Series of the Reading-Course Bulletins 

 nozv available are: i. The Soil and the Plant. 2. Stock Feeding. 

 3. Orcharding. 4. Poultry. 5. Dairying. 6. Farm Buildings and 

 Yards. The Farmers Wives' Reading-Course, on domestic subjects, is 

 also sent to those zvho desire it. 



These Bulletins cannot be sent to persons who reside outside 

 OF THE State of New York, as both courses are supported by a 

 State appropriation. 



For our ozvn benefit zve shall be glad to have you anszver {on these 

 sheets) any or all of the follozving questions, if you are interested in these 

 subjects; but zve do not zvish you to feel under any obligation to do this. 



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