THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



Kinds of extension work 



Extension work in agriculture includes 

 all effective personal acquaintanceship 

 with the farmers of the state; all inspec- 

 tion of farms that is not legal and police in 

 character; the giving of advice by corre- 

 spondence; publication of an educational 

 nature; cooperation with societies and 

 organizations; advisory and cooperative 

 work with schools ; the organizing of boys ' 

 and girls' clubs in schools and country 

 districts; the conducting of reading- 

 courses for farmers, farmers' wives and 

 rural school-teachers ; experiments or 

 demonstrations on farms; running of 

 "farm trains"; holding of "farmers' 

 weeks" and other conventions; lectures, 

 itinerant schools, and the like; and all 

 species of helpfulness and advice to the 

 people on the land. The extension depart- 

 ment of a college of agriculture should be 

 a means of arousing the country people, 

 and then of helping and guiding them. It 

 will be effective in proportion as it works 

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