Kinds of 

 extension work. 



Extension work in agriculture includes all effective personal 

 acquaintanceship with the farmers of the State ; all inspection 

 of farms that is not legal and police in character ; the giving of 

 advice by correspondence; publication of an educational 

 nature ; all 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 department of a college of agricul- 

 ture should be a means of arousing the country people, and 

 then of helping and guiding them. It will be effective in pro- 

 portion as it works harmoniously and full-heartedly with all 

 other agencies for rural progress. 



Lectures 



and travelling teachers. 



The best vehicle for much of the extension work is a public 

 lecture service, and this service will naturally develop with 

 such work. This raises the question as to the proper place for 

 farmers' institute service. Historically, the institutes have 

 developed in different ways, some of them issuing from col- 

 leges of agriculture, some of them from state departments of 

 agriculture, and some of them from a separate or special 



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