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The Grange, too, offers a medium through which the work may be 

 effectively started. Its officers are in thorough sympathy with the Course. 

 At some meeting, propose the matter of forming a club for the purpose 

 of reading the Bulletins of the Reading-Course for Farmers; ask for 

 the names of those interested, and call a meeting directly after the 

 Grange meeting. Organize yourselves in the most convenient way. 

 After a problem has been discussed in the club, it then may be pre- 

 sented to the Grange. You will be surprised to see how much you 

 have gained by your study when you lay the problem before the Grange. 

 On the Discussion-paper is a Roster that you are invited to fill out, 

 giving the names of proposed members or remarks about your situa- 

 tion, or both. 



The following letters indicate the kind of interest taken by many 



^^^"^^^ • Westport, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1906. 



" I have been appointed by Lake View Grange No. 970 to write 

 you for bulletins for the following members. They wish to start with 

 Bulletin No. i of the course. (The names of 22 readers followed.) 

 We trust to derive much benefit from the course and are anxious to 

 have the bulletins by the fifteenth of November." 



" We are trying to start a Reading-Course Club in Leyden Grange. 

 Would like you to send the Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives and 

 Farmers." (The names of 23 women and 21 men followed.) 



NuNDA, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1906. 



" The Mindahua Grange at its last meeting unanimously voted to 

 pursue the course concerning which I wrote you, beginning with Series 

 I. We have 54 members. Please send the lessons in one package to 

 me and I will distribute as each new lesson is taken up. 



" We anticipate great pleasure as well as profit in the course." 



In all, thirty Bulletins in the Farmers' Reading-Course are pub- 

 lished, dealing in order with the subjects named below: 



" Series I. The Soil and the Plant. The Bulletins in this series are : 

 (i) The Soil, What it is; (2) Tillage and Under- 

 Drainage; (3) The Fertility of the Soil; (4) How the 

 Plant Gets its Food from the Soil; (5) How the Plant 

 Gets its Food from the Air. 



"Series H. Stock-Feeding. The Bulletins in this series are: (6) 

 Balanced Rations for Stock; (7) The Computing of 

 Balanced Rations ; (8) Sample Rations for Milch 

 Cows; (9) Soiling Crops and Silage; (10) Pastures 

 and Meadows. 



