442 Reading-Course for Farmers, 



quartets of singers from the College. The work has progressed without 

 serious interruption, in the face of many obstacles, to the point where 

 today it is practically a fixture, both students and farmers feeling that 

 the discontinuance of it would be a mistake. Wherever possible, at these 

 meetings, the students have sought to co-operate with such entertain- 

 ments as already had recognition in such places. For instance, they are 

 glad to co-operate with a Sunday School entertainment, or a Grange 

 meeting, or whatever may be recognized as an institution of local import- 

 ance. 



The managing of these experimental meetings, the presenting of talks 

 at them, raised the important issue as to the fitness of the agricultural stu- 

 dents individually to conduct the work. As a result of the recognition of 

 this problem, a course of academic rank has been instituted at the College 

 which purposes to train young men and women to recognize and meet the 

 responsibilities and duties which will be theirs on entering the field of prac- 

 tical work, which will train them to present to the proper people in a plain, 

 practical, useful way, the information that they may have acquired. 

 These students are placed at the disposal of accessible meetings. Speakers 

 from this class will be chosen by competition, only those being sent out 

 who know the subject matter on which they are to speak, and who have 

 some little ability to present that subject matter with persuasive force. 



Not only are these students available to the people nearby, but we are 

 now ready to say that in so far as our means will permit and the number 

 of students will allow, this class is at the service of other organizations 

 of farmers in the State. The student will be chosen with extreme care. 

 He wall have the advice of the expert in the department where he is 

 w^orking, and he will have the criticism of his fellow students, both as 

 to his information and as to his way of presenting it. When all of this 

 has been done, he will go out with the approval of the College, to give 

 just what he gave in competition among other students at the College. 

 He will be equipped with proper stereopticon apparatus to make his talk 

 not only instructive, but interesting. He will be sent as much to secure 

 information from vour experience as to impart information to you. If 

 you are interested, further details may be secured from the Supervisor. 



The New York State Expenineuters' League. 



The desire of the peo])le and the College to get together more closely 

 is finding its expression in different ways. One of the most significant 

 expressions of this growing bond of sympathy is represented in the New 

 York State Agricultural Experimenters' League. For several years now 

 this association has lieen at work proving its right to existence. The 

 evidence of interest at the annual meeting last winter, held at the State 



