TEACHING AND INFORMATION GIVING 45 



These lists are often very bad, encouraging a too wide 

 range of ill-adapted products and animals, without suffi- 

 cient emphasis on the best and inviting the professional 

 exhibitor. Here is often a splendid opportunity to im- 

 prove the husbandry of the county by encouraging the 

 fair management to offer large prizes for those varieties 

 of crops and those types of animals best suited to the 

 locality and in line with the county program of work, and 

 by eliminating the poorly adapted kinds. 



SPECIAL TYPES OF DEMONSTRATION 



The modern emphasis upon demonstrations has devel- 

 oped many new forms, some very efficient and others merely 

 novel kinds of propaganda. The barn meeting where 

 animals are judged and handled, the gas engine school 

 where the engines are overhauled and repaired, are good 

 examples of efficient types of demonstrations, as both farm- 

 ers and county agents will testify. Another special type 

 which though expensive has proved very useful is the 

 motor truck equipped with the necessary demonstration 

 material, e.g., for a water supply installation. Such a 

 truck permits the carrying of heavy equipment speedily 

 from place to place, makes it possbile to reach places away 

 from the railroad and in the open country. It is of course 

 limited to the time of the year when roads are good and 

 preferably when outdoor meetings can be held. 



Another useful and modified form of field demonstra- 

 tion is the automobile farm tour. In this form of meeting 

 the persons attending drive from farm to farm, observing 

 the results of farm demonstrations or especially successful 

 practices which are pointed out and explained by the 

 county agent or some of his cooperators. These are popu- 

 lar and if well-organized and conducted they constitute 



