Farmers^ Week in Agricultural College. 



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ments attend the exhibits and assist visitors in gaining from the dis- 

 plays the information desired. These exhibits have been helpful and 

 beneficial and have done much to place the results of agricultural in- 

 vestigation before the people. 



DEMONSTRATIONS. 



Another way of urging farmers to adopt new methods is through 

 practical demonstrations. This year we have given more than seventy- 

 five practical horticultural demonstrations in various parts of the 

 State. The people of the counties are brought together at some con- 

 venient point in an orchard. Here spraying apparatus and spraying 

 materials are assembled and a spraying demonstration given with full 

 information, as is the making of the mixture and the applying of the 

 same. A full line of pruning apparatus is also carried and a demon- 

 stration given on the methods and value of pruning fruit trees. This 

 work has proved especially helpful and beneficial. 



From the effects of smut in wheat and oats Indiana farmers have 

 experienced a great loss in recent years. It is known, however, that this 

 loss can be reduced to a minimum through the use of formalin. The 



Horticultural Demonstration Meeting. 



Extension Department aims to secure the co-operation of grain dealers 

 and sends a demonstrator to the point where the farmers are gathered 

 and gives a demonstration on the treatment of oats and wheat for smut. 

 This work is done immediately preceding the time of seeding. It is 

 found that large numbers of farmers are induced to treat their seed. 

 The results from these demonstrations is bound to be large. 



