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 tute cannot be superseded in fact.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. 



