440 Reading-Course for Farmers. 



that the correspondence workers greet you, the readers, for another 

 winter. 



Reading-Course and Experiment Station Bulletins. 



Our records show that some of the Reading-Course Bulletins have 

 not been as largely utilized by our readers as they should be. Some 

 of our best publications have not had the distribution that was their due. 

 This we hope to remedy by calling your attention from time to time to the 

 particular kind of helpful information which may be received from some 

 of these bulletins hitherto not well known. The information in the bul- 

 letins remains sound year after year. 



Not only have we Reading-Course bulletins for such distribution, but 

 also Experiment Station Bulletins, a list of which appears on the back of 

 this bulletin. These Station bulletins, somewhat technical in their 

 nature, have to do with many agricultural problems in different parts of 

 the State. To be sure, the use of certain of these bulletins is not so per- 

 tinent in some sections as in others. This winter we shall prepare a list 

 of these bulletins in such a way that particular localities will be able to 

 ascertain the information that is applicable to their place. All this will 

 be arranged so that the quickest information will be furnished in the 

 most useful way, at the least cost. 



Advanced Correspondence Course. 



After a reader has completed the Reading-Course bulletins up to date 

 he is then ready for and should take the work that is known as the 

 advanced Correspondence Course. This consists, primarily, of the read- 

 ing of assigned books of well known authorities, on particular phases of 

 farming. Some twelve or fifteen subjects have been prepared for this 

 work. \Ye can furnish you the names of the best l)ooks, together with 

 the price and author. The longer one reads the bulletins, the more one 

 is convinced that his work should be conducted in a more definite, sys- 

 tematic way, with such full and accurate information as can be secured 

 in these well known books. 



Trai'eling State Libraries, 



It gives up pleasure here to repeat what was said last winted concern- 

 ing the helpfulness that is offered by the Traveling State Libraries. The 

 State Department of Education has arranged for distribution a large 

 number of books which can be secured at a nominal rate for a reasonable 

 period of time. Definite arrangements have been made, in particular, for 

 the supplying of agricultural books to farmers. I suggest that each one 

 interested write to this division of the State Education Department at 

 Albany to arrange for the securing of these books at an early date. 



