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that tlie younger men at the colleges and stations should avail them- 

 selves more largely of it. In emphasizing the importance of this 

 the committee expressed the belief that college and station employees 

 attending the school should be considered as on duty and that the 

 time so occupied should not be deducted. The association endorsed 

 this recommendation. 



The effective correlation of station and extension work and the 

 means of securing public recognition for that of the station was 

 another live topic discussed in the station section. Considering the 

 correlation of the two sets of workers from the standpoint of the 

 extension director, Mr, Bradford Knapp suggested that the station 

 men should go out enough to maintain contact with the farmers. 

 They might exchange work to some extent with the extension men, 

 especially in the preliminary stages of preparation for extending the 

 results of station work in the field. Conferences between the two sets 

 of workers, at least annually or semiannual^, were advocated. 



Prof. C. E. Thorne, speaking from the standpoint of the station 

 director, pointed out that the experiment stations collectively are 

 the source of the more exact knowledge with reference to factors 

 which bear upon the progress of agiiculture. They were organized 

 to advance definite knowledge. They furnish the best means we have 

 of reaching further into the unlaiown and of correlating and co- 

 ordinating what is known. The teacher in the great outside must 

 keep himself posted and in touch with the experiment station in his 

 own State, and to some extent with the stations collectively. 



In Ohio the station is extending the points of its work to various 

 parts of the State, by maintaining branch stations. It is felt that 

 the county agent is thus given an advantage by having available the 

 help of these smaller agricultural farms, and that data of more local 

 application can be secured and tested. Such arrangements will call 

 for definite understanding, but will offer for men opportunity to 

 work in both fields — on the local experiment farms and in the exten- 

 sion teaching. 



Discussion of the best means of securing recognition and credit for 

 station work through the extension staff brought out the fact that 

 the attitude of the extension worker is a large factor in this matter, 

 and that his closeness to the public affords a means of giving wide 

 publicity to the station work and emphasizing its importance. The 

 close contact which the stations formerly had with the public, 

 through meetings, correspondence, personal visits, etc., will be dimin- 

 ished as the extension work is segregated and grows in extent. Ob- 

 viously, the extension man can ill afford to claim to be the original 

 source of the information he gives out, and the importance to his 



