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tion of rural societies, reading-clubs, library 

 extension, lectures, travelling-schools, farmers' 

 institutes, inspections of herds, barns, crops, 

 orchards and farms, publications of many kinds, 

 and similar educational effort directly in the 

 field. 



To accomplish these ends, we suggest the es- 

 tablishment of a nation-wide extension work. 

 The first or original work of the agricultural 

 branches of the land-grant colleges was academic 

 in the old sense; later there was added the great 

 field of experiment and research; there now 

 should be added the third coordinate branch, 

 comprising extension work, without which no 

 college of agriculture can adequately serve its 

 state. It is to the extension department of these 

 colleges, if properly conducted, that we must 

 now look for the most effective rousing of the 

 people on the land. 



In order that all public educational work in the 

 United States may be adequately studied and 

 guided, we also recommend that the United 

 States Bureau of Education be enlarged and sup- 

 ported in such a way that it will really represent 

 the educational activities of the nation, becom- 



