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How work up a farmers' credit loan scheme. How devise a scheme to 

 eliminate unnecessary middlemen. 



How establish a community of farmers on cooperative equal share basis. 



How put into practice in farming the chain-store plan. 



Request for information on a series of morally clean moving picture shows. 



The question that most frequently occurred was that relating to necessary 

 finances, experience for and the likely income from farming. The impression 

 that one has ground into him, whether he wishes it or not, is that the city 

 man's mind is still possessed of the false idea that a very considerable and 

 peculiar novitiate is not necessary for him who would earn his bread and 

 obtain interest on his investment by farming. Until the city man's mind is 

 disabused of this conception there will be a proper and fertile field for the 

 Institute in New York City. 



All the publications of the Department of Agriculture were 

 available for distribution at Professor Morgan's office. 



At four o'clock on each afternoon a lecture was given as shown 

 on the program following. The attendance indicates the apprecia- 

 tion to a degree only. To understand it to the full one must 

 have been present and observed the intense interest and eager 

 questioning. ISTor was this the full extent of this work. It has 

 resulted in a correspondence with the college, the Director of 

 Institutes, and the several speakers, too far reaching to attempt to 

 estimate. 



For this work $500 has been expended for rent and janitor 

 services, and $190.43 for lecture fees and expenses. At first 

 glance this may appear too great as compared with the amount 

 expended in the up-State counties, but when one considers that 

 Greater New York pays a large percentage of the funds for this, 

 as well as other State expenditures, the proportion does not seem 

 unduly great. And there is no other line of work more productive 

 of results, negative as well as positive. 



PROGRAM AND ATTENDANCE AT LECTURES 



INSTITUTE FOB CITY DWELLING FARMERS 



This course is offered without charge to all people in and about New York 

 City who are interested in any phase of practical scientific farming. The 

 university through its department of agriculture cooperates with the New 

 York State Department of Agriculture in giving the lectures and in offering 

 free consultation on farm problems. A representative will be in attendance 

 in Room 511, Schermerhorn Hall, every Friday, beginning January 15, 1915. 



Place of Lecture— 305 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, New York 

 City. 



Time— 4:10-5:00 P. M., Fridav. 



