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liberal support. And the neAvspapers and periodicals all over the 

 country have given expression to public sentiment in these matters. 

 This Office is endeavoring to aid this movement as a general agency, 

 cooperating with the other branches of this Department, the State 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations, and the State depart- 

 ments of agriculture and education. It is hoped that in this way it 

 may be possible to incorporate speedily in courses of instruction in 

 agriculture whatever useful results are obtained in the research work 

 of the Department and stations, to l)ring the results of experience in 

 agricultural education at home and abroad to bear on the problems 

 connected with the development of a system of public education better 

 adapted to the needs of our rural communities, and to enable the rural 

 people throughout the country to understand what is required to 

 make their schools more effective and to take proper measures for 

 the enrichment of country life and the permanent prosperity of 

 American agriculture. 



FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



The Farmers' Institute Specialist has continued to aid the State 

 directors by distributing literature, attending meetings of representa- 

 tive farmers, delivering addresses before farm organizations, aiding 

 in the preparation of publications, perfecting the organization of the 

 work of the Office, and conducting correspondence. During the 

 year eleven States and the Province of Ontario were visited and 

 twenty addresses were delivered. In addition to his annual report he 

 prepared for the printer copy for the following publications: List of 

 the State Directors of Farmers' Institutes and Farmers' Institute 

 Lecturers ; Legislation Relating to Farmers' Institutes in the United 

 States; and Agricultural Instruction for Adults in Continental 

 Countries. Pie also aided in the editing of the Proceedings of the 

 Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Farmers' 

 Institute Workers, and the Course in Cheese Makino- for Movable 

 Schools of Agriculture. 



The Office is also cooperating with the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations in conducting inves- 

 tigations for the purpose of ascertaining to what extent extension 

 work in agriculture is being done by colleges, schools, State depart- 

 ments of agriculture and education, agricultural organizations, the 

 press, and other agencies throughout the United States. The Farm- 

 ers' Institute Specialist has been made secretary of the standing 

 connnitt<'e of (he association and has conducted a large part of the 

 correspondence relating to this investigation." 



n For :i n>iiorl i)f lliis coiiiinittee see U. S. Dopt. .Afxr.. Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions Circ. 72. 



