COLLEGE AND STATE 



harmoniously and full-heartedly with all 

 other agencies for rural progress. 



Lectures and traveling teachers 



The best vehicle for much of the exten- 

 sion work is a public lecture-service, and 

 this service will naturally develop. This 

 raises the question as to the proper place 

 for farmers' institute service. Histori- 

 cally, the institutes have developed in dif- 

 ferent ways, some of them issuing from 

 colleges of agriculture, some of them from 

 state departments of agriculture, and some 

 of them from a separate or special organi- 

 zation. If they were to be developed anew 

 to-day, they would naturally issue from the 

 colleges of agriculture, if the colleges in the 

 different states were capable of handling 

 them, because they are educational agen- 

 cies and because the extension enterprise 

 of the college must on its own account de- 

 velop similar work. There is a popular 

 impression that farmers' institutes will 

 soon have served their purpose and will 

 naturally discontinue. I doubt whether 

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