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(2) As in many instances in«livitlual means and powers are insufficient, he must 

 point out to the small jtroprietors the advantages to i>e gained by intelligent coopera- 

 tion, and must give all possil)le information al)Out the establishment of loan societies, 

 cooperative foo<l-supply associations, societies for the insurance of live stock, vine 

 dressers' societies, agricultural clubs, etc. ; he must point out how such institutions 

 can and nnist be created by the farmers themselves ar.d the advantages that may 

 accrue from them. 



(3) He must a.ssist in controlling the pro])er application and observance of the 

 conditions upon which the subsidies i)aid by the State and the society are granted, 

 and for this purpose he will receive a list of the same from the secretary-general and 

 must sxate the result in his yearly report. 



He must explain to the agricultural population the objects and usefulness of the 

 institution, and the protection and advantage it offers, such as laboratories for chem- 

 ical analyses and experiments, stations where bulls, ])<)ars, and staljions are to be 

 found, cattle shows and prizes, institutions for the trial of machines and implements, 

 agricultural clubs, exhibitions, etc., and encourage their j)articipation in these 

 organizations. 



(4) He must give theoretical and practical courses of instruction at the proper 

 season on beehives and the j^roper rearing of bees, and on fruit trees and vines and 

 their treatment, and also on agricultural bookkeeping on a selected farm. He must 

 appoint a stated time for these lectures and issue a i)ul)lic invitation to ail to attend 

 them. 



(5) In liis annual or in separate reports he is to make suggestions as to the means 

 which should l>e adopted on the part of the society for encouraging such improve- 

 ments as he shall have found to be necessary. 



(6) He must visit the existing agricultural schools and improvement clubs on his 

 journeys and register and report their condition, hold conferences with the directors, 

 and use his influence toward the erection of new clubs. 



(7) He has to keep a diary of everything im2»ortant that he has observed and done 

 during his journeys, and include a statement of the same in his report to the president 

 of the society. 



The itinerant lecturer is to have a month's holiday from the 15th of July to the 

 15th of August. 



RUSSIA. 



A statement of the methods employed in reaching the rural popula- 

 tion of Russia with agricultural information has been furnished by 

 the Russian minister of agriculture in the following communication: 



Agricultural information is disseminated among the farming population of Russia 

 by means of special lectures upon the most important local problems of each locality, 

 and by means of systematic courses of instruction in the schools, including full 

 details in concise form, upon some one branch of agricultural science. Recently 

 information concerning agricultural subjects has been spread among the farming 

 population by means of itinerant teachers. By this means the farmers are directly 

 met and aided, and the instructors are also enabled to unite with their technical 

 knowledge of agricultural science a practical acquaintance and understanding of the 

 agricultural and social conditions and needs that exist among the people to whom 

 their instruction is addressed. Such an arrangement has made possible an unusu- 

 ally wide distribution of agricultural information. 



In these movable courses of lectures the attending farmers acquaint themselves 

 with recent investigations concerning the various branches of agricultural science, 

 and a similar fund of information is made available through courses given by the 

 teachers to pupils in the primary agricultural schools of the various communities. 



