EXTENSION OFFICE. 



Teaching Work. 



The only Collegiate teaching in this department is that with a 

 class in Extension Work numbering" 55 persons. The features of this 

 work are the organization of agricultural information of a practical 

 nature and practice in the technique of oral presentation of such in- 

 formation. 



Extension Work. 



The extension work consists partiall)^ in conducting the Reading- 

 Course for Farmers. Last year, 6,600 persons were in close touch 

 with our Reading-Course matter. 



Active Correspondents. 

 Mailing list, active : 



Old readers renewed 525 



New readers 998 



Total active readers '. . . . i)523 



Others not enrolled as active Sjoo 



Total distribution \ • 6,623 



Total number of Farmers' Reading Course clubs . . . 21 



Number of letters written 13.555 



A large number of lectures were delivered by representatives of the 

 office, besides the arranging of a number of lectures from representatives 

 of other departments. Close attention was given to certain phases of 

 Extension Work in the schools, especially in the introduction of agri- 

 culture in the country school and the high school. The Farmers' Week 

 was held for the first time last February. It drew together some eight 

 hundred persons interested in agriculture, who wanted definite instruction. 

 A large number of agricultural organizations were entertained at the 

 College. A notable feature was the Rural School Picnic held on the 29th 

 of May. The New York State Agricultural Experimenters' League with 

 a membership of eighteen hundred was kept intact and experimental work 



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