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Extension bulletins. They issue from the College 

 of Agriculture and, in the form of supplements to 

 the regular bulletins, from the Geneva Station. One 

 of the later forms of these bulletins is the Eeadinsr- 

 Course bulletin for the farmer or for the farm home, 

 issued by the State College of Agriculture. They 

 are a series of lessons prepared by the different de- 

 partments that most closely touch farm work, and 

 in the successive issues that are published from time 

 to time carry forvs^ard a somewhat consecutive line of 

 study. There are two divisions in these bulletins, 

 one for the farm and the other for the farm home. 

 The other schools and colleges in the State are not 

 authorized to put out any general series of bulletins 

 but may issue leaflets dealing with their particular 

 fields of work. 



EXTENSION WORK 



In recent years a general extension movement has 

 been projected, not only in New York but throughout 

 the countr}', to reach the farmer and his wife who 

 may not be in position to go to a college or other 

 agricultural school. It had its origin in a variety of 

 disconnected movements, one of the earliest of these 

 being the Farmers' Institute under which plan one or 

 two day schools are conducted by a staff of one or 

 more persons that discuss and explain lines of work 

 that are applicable to the region. As was indicated 

 in an earlier chapter, the Farmers' Institute formerly 

 issued from the State Department of Farms and 

 Markets but by act of the Legislature in 1918 it 



