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All over our own and other states we find inspired leaders carrying out the 

 suggestions received at our conferences in their own towns. 



We are not unmindful of the foreigner within our gates. We hold 

 each year, both at the college and in different sections of our state, special 

 days for the Poles, Italians, Jews and Portuguese who are colonizing certain 

 sections. We teach them English, civics, agriculture, and strive to plant 

 in them high ideals of what American citizenship should be. 



We encourage all sorts of agricultural societies and organizations 

 to meet at the college and arrange helpful and entertaining programmes 

 for them. 



For those who cannot come to the college at all, sixteen correspondence 

 courses in as many agricultural subjects are offered at small cost. 



The members of our faculty gave during the past year more than 

 500 free lectures and practical demonstrations. These were given before 

 men's and women's clubs, granges, church societies, Y. M. C. A.'s, boards 

 of trade and other organizations. Courses having as many as twenty-six 

 lectures were given in some communities. 



When it is impossible for an instructor to go for one of these meet- 

 ings, we send a written lecture and a set of lantern slides. 



In such communities as may request and where proper interest is 

 shown, we hold extension schools of agriculture and home-making lasting 

 five days each. Soil fertility, dairying, fruit growing, poultry raising, 

 and home economics subjects are taken up. Ten exercises in each subject 

 allows of quite thorough instruction being given. It is really a college 

 short course transferred to communities all over the state. 



We do not limit these schools to the productive side alone. Next 

 week an extension school, devoted to problems of community develop- 

 ment, is 'to be held in one of our small towns. Such subjects as the follow- 

 ing are included in the instruction given: 



Town planning for rural Massachusetts. 



Methods of managing town improvement work. 



Improvement of home grounds. 



Co-operative buying and selling. 



A new movement for local taxation. 



Better methods of marketing. 



Law enforcement. 



New methods in education. 



Labor saving appliances for the home. 



Relation of right nutrition to general welfare. 



Making up a community programme, and others. 



We co-operate with steam railroads and trolley lines in the operation 

 of so-called ''Better Farming Trains" and believe these to be an efficient 

 means of introducing farmers to adopt more up-to-date methods. We 

 have pretty well-defined plans for fitting up cars permanently, lengthen- 



