FARMERS' INSTITUTES 103 



ment that they are bound to increase in value 

 and importance. Reading-courses and corre- 

 spondence-courses are growing factors in this 

 extension movement, but the power of the 

 spoken word is guarantee that the farmers' insti- 

 tute cannot be superseded in fact. And it is 

 worth noting again, that while university exten- 

 sion has not been the success in this country 

 which its friends of a decade ago fondly prophe- 

 sied for it, its humbler cousin — agricultural col- 

 lege extension — has been a conspicuous success, 

 and is acquiring a constantly increasing power 

 among the educational agencies that are trying 

 to deal with the farm problem. 



