Farmers^ Week in Agricultural College. 



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While tlie information given on the train has been very similar to 

 that given by Farmers' Institutes and bulletins, yet when these same 

 facts are backed by a railroad corporation and given the momentum 

 of a train rushing through the State, they take a new form and strike 

 deep into the hearts of the people. The teaching is given a force thau 

 the most suspicious and hardened individual is not able to resist, and a 

 further and most important result has been that people have gone home 

 and put into practice the facts they have gained. The problem of 

 carrying to the people is not nearly so important as is the one of get 

 ting people to do those things which they already know. 



At first it was felt that the train could be used only to arouse peo- 

 ple, and would not educate directly. This view has been changed and 

 the train in Indiana educational work has come to stay. Through it 

 we are able to reach the people and to give them work, which they are 

 taking and applying in their every day operations. 



DISTRICT SHORT COURSES. 



During the past eight years Purdue University has conducted a 

 one week's Farmers' Short Course, giving in this course practical in- 

 structions in corn, live stock, dairjnng, horticulture and domestic science. 

 The work has been of untold value and has appealed strongly to the 



County Farmers' Excursion, Purdue University. 



people of the state. During the past three years there has been an 

 annual attendance of more than 1,200 farmers, which proves that the 

 course is popular. 



While we feel that this course is reaching a large number of farm- 



