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arrange for the hiring. Hgliting, and warming of the room in which the lectures 

 will be delivered. 



It will also be the duty of the county connnittee to undertake the responsibility 

 of seeing that the instructor's tini(> is fully and usefully employed. 



The cuiunty connnittee shall keej) a sei)arate account of all expenditure 

 under this scheme and shall furnisli detailed statements of such expenditure 

 as may from time to time be retpiired Ijy the department. 



(8) Lectures should be arranged to be given in schoolrooms in the evenings, 

 and should he held in rural centers. Towns and the larger villages should be 

 avoided, as experience has shown th.nt the greatest success attends those lectures 

 which are given in the rural parts of the county, especially when the lectm-es 

 are d<'livered in a district where the greatest number of farmers is to be found. 

 The local connnittee at each center should l>e responsible for appointing a 

 reiiresentati\t> cbainnan for each Iccliu'e. as well as for the distrilmtion of the 

 short syllabus of the lectures, which will be i)repai'ed by the lectni'ci' as soon as 

 he is ajipointed. The local committee should undertake to have posters, which 

 will be supiilied by the seci-etary of the county committee, effectively displayed 

 throughout their district. Each lecture should he followed by a discussion, 

 during which farmers will be invited to ask questions relative to their luisiness. 



(it) The lectures should connuence early in autunni and be continued until 

 the end of the first week in March. 



(10) No action shall be taken by the county committee toward putting this 

 scheme, or any part thereof, into oi)eration until the sanction of the department 

 has been obtained in writing. 



It will be observed that while the instructor in any agricnltural 

 subject is selected by the committee of the county in which he is to 

 work, the choice of the committee is not final until the department 

 has been satisfied as to the qualifications of the person selected and 

 has sanctioned the a])p()intment in writing. This insures that only 

 capable teachers will be engaged in instruction work in itinerant 

 schools. 



Two classes of instructors are employed by the department in its 

 technical instruction work in agriculture. The first is composed of 

 what are known as itinerant instructors, who conduct short courses 

 in some subject, such as poultry keeping, dairying, bi^e keeping, etc. 

 These are trained men who are thoroughly qiuilifipd for the work 

 which the subjects recpiire. 



The second class is composed of Avhat ai"(> known as pioneer lec- 

 turers, sent out by Ihe department for the ])urpose of giving a series 

 of pioneer lectures upon jiractical agriculture — dairying, poultry 

 keeping, horticulture, and kindred topics — in counties which have 

 been unable to secure itinerant instructors. 



In the case of the pioneer lecturers the dejjartment pa_ys out of the 

 funds at its disposal the fees and traveling expenses of these lecturers. 

 In the case of the itinerant instructors in agriculture, the department 

 pays their full salaries, but the cost of traveling through the county 

 is defrayed out of the local fund i-aised by the county council from 

 the rate of 1 penny in the pound on the valuation of the county ])rop- 



