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ucation more heartily than ever before, and its influence throughout 

 the state was everywhere great. One of the first reasons for this 

 change was that the value of education along agricultural lines was 

 brought more distinctly home to the farmers through the work of the 

 farmers institutes, state agricultural associations, and other early ex- 

 tension agencies. It was no longer simply a question of increased 

 production on the farm ; but rather, in addition to that, a building of 

 strong, permanent, and intelligent leadership in agricultural communi- 

 ties, studying and solving those questions which relate to the larger 

 life of our agricultural people; in short, more attention was being 

 given to the importance of the human side of agricultural progress 

 which, in turn, had a profound effect upon the work of all the 

 agencies for agricultural education. This human side of agricultural 

 progress, as contrasted with the narrow question of merely increased 

 production, has had a profound influence in shaping newer lines of 

 extension service, such as a series of one-day farmers' institutes, 

 farmers' clubs, community meetings ; specially organized and planned 

 institutes for boys and girls with corn and various judging contests; 

 personal visits to homes ; boys' State Fair schools ; short courses in ag- 

 riculture, of which the College conducted over sixty in one year; 

 farmers' encampments ; seed, soil, and dairy trains run over all of the 

 principal railway lines of the state ; and the organization of excursion 

 parties to visit the University. 



THE NEWER PROBLEMS AND LINES OF SERVICE 



The so-called stock information in agriculture concerning crop 

 production, live-stock judging, soils, etc., is pretty well known. There 

 is active and unanswered as yet a demand for information along such 

 lines as cost accounting, cooperation, marketing, retail delivery ser- 

 vice, overland truck service; taxation and public expenditure; housing; 

 and also a demand for a study of conditions within the state, includ- 

 ing the sources of raw material, transportation records and rates, vari- 

 ations in retail prices, etc. These are simply a few of the problems 

 that confront us in an economic way that must be solved by the young 

 men of the next generation or two. 



Time will not permit the enumeration of the new and large de- 

 partments and lines of work in the College of Agriculture and the 

 activities which are being directed especially to the betterment of the 

 farmers, along research and investigational lines ; nor of the ways in 

 which through the Extension Service it is making known to the citi- 

 zens of the state the results of its investigations. The courses of 



