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out the good and bad points. The exhibit is prepared in duplicate. It 

 is housed in a large tent 30 by 80 feet. Last fair season 14 fairs were 

 visited and 500,000 people passed through the tents. Two men from the 

 College accompanied the exhibit. These men met the people and answered 

 inquiries. Thousands of farmers were gotten in touch with and thousands 

 of questions were answered. 



There are many requests for examination of farms and advice. These 

 requests are met so far as possible. Within the last two months or two 

 and a half months, thirty such requests have been met. In instances of 

 this kind those asking the service pay the traveling expenses of the 

 examiner. 



Pennsylvania is a great dairy state. We try to serve the interests 

 of the dairyman. One man gives practically all of his time to visiting 

 individual dairymen of a community, discussing problems with them and 

 trying to form a cow testing association. Such an association makes it 

 possible for a dairyman to know what each animal in his herd is doing. 

 They may be enabled to buy feed more economically and enabled to feed 

 their cows to better advantage and reap a larger net profit. 



There is not time, however, to go into the testing question. 



We have had a number of excursions to the College. The Pennsyl- 

 vania Railroad ran three in June of last year and brought 1800 people. 

 That enables us to get in touch with the farmers in a manner that is not 

 possible in any other way. It enables the people to see the direct relation 

 between science on the one hand and practice on the other. By looking 

 over the fertilizer plats they can see the remarkable differences. They 

 could go out in some of the fields and see what the result of practical appli- 

 cation of these results to those fields were. It enables us to get in closer 

 touch with them and be of more service to them. 



One of the movements that has been referred to in extension service 

 is the county agent work. There are nine counties in Pennsylvania in 

 which county agents have been placed. They are under the supervision 

 of a state leader who is a member of our extension staff. There has been 

 considerable discussion of the county agent here and I shall not take time 

 to discuss it now except to say it gives personal touch which is necessary to 

 do practical work. 



I would like to take a minute to call your attention to one or two 

 things that have been accomplished by the county agent. I have in mind 

 one county agent where recently, in a public institution in that county, 

 the feed bill was reduced fifty per cent at the same time the milk flow was 

 increased. Another instance : An agent from one of the northern counties, 

 where corn does not grow so well, sent some samples to be entered in the 

 contest here this week. I would like right here to take this opportunity 

 of congratulating the Corn Exchange National Bank for the work they are 

 doing in organizing this corn contest. There is nothing that stimulates 

 interest like competition. A county agent in one of the northern counties 



