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should be centered in this college, and the people should at once be 

 shown where to look for the information. 



The withdrawal of Instructor M. P. Jones for the coming year, 

 because of illness, leaves a vacancy that is difficult to fill. The 

 excellence of his work, together with his usual spirit made him an 

 almost ideal extension man. The office needs just such help as Mr. 

 Jones was able to give. In addition, there is need of an older man 

 for certain phases of the extension work, since the contract is not 

 so much with students as with practical farmers, a position which 

 will carry with it such rank and salary as will attract men for con- 

 tinuous work in this field. It is very necessary that persons who 

 meet the farmer with their difficult questions should have maturity 

 of judgment. 



Prompt attention to the correspondence makes it necessary that 

 our stenographic force be increased. 



The oral presentation, through lectures, farm trains, fairs and 

 the like, calls for a definite increase in funds, the need of which is 

 recognized by the people who are asking for the help, and who at 

 the same time are paying taxes. The written presentation calls 

 for a careful and scholarly scrutiny of individual work, which 

 could be secured through the appointment of graduate student as- 

 sistants. The demonstration work calls for the appointment of two 

 or three men of experience and maturity of judgment, with proper 

 funds for field work. 



Public speaking, in all that it means for agriculture, should have 

 its place, not only with the regular students but with the winter 

 course men as well ; and assistants in the office should have the 

 time to give particularly to this work. 



A wider and more extensive extension movement will mean more 

 funds for more growth in the purely scientific side of the work. To 

 secure this development, the office appropriation should be mate- 

 rially increased, and two persons on full time should be added to 

 the staflf; one for the extension work with the schools, the other 

 for the promotion of co-operative experiments and the correlation 

 of this work with the fairs and Farmers' Week. Besides this, 

 student assistants should be brought in to help with lesser phases of 

 the work. 



CHAS. H. TUCK, 

 Assistant Professor of Extension 

 Teaching in Agriculture. 



