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mercial boards, schools and other working groups, 

 are made up of a series to continue at intervals for 

 days or weeks or even for an entire season. 



It is now the stated policy in most of this lecture 

 and demonstration work from state institutions, in- 

 cluding the State Department of Agriculture, that 

 the community requesting such aid cooperate by meet- 

 ing a part of the expenses of the speaker, not includ- 

 ing salary. When an individual or a community con- 

 tributes to such expenses for its benefit, better use is 

 generally made of the service rendered and many 

 perfunctory calls for mere entertainment are elimi- 

 nated. 



A still further development of the extension idea 

 is in the farm demonstration schools. These aim to 

 reach the more mature persons in a community and 

 to present to them a somewhat comprehensive course 

 of study, usually of one week's duration. These, 

 also, are carried by the State College of Agriculture. 

 During the winter months these demonstration schools 

 have been held to the extent of forty to fifty a sea- 

 son and treat three to five subjects. The instruction 

 is consecutive and constructive and aims to build up 

 a fairly sound general understanding of the subject 

 in hand, and to point out its application to the con- 

 ditions in that region. 



Another educational movement to reach the man 

 on the land is the Farmers' Week held by the State 

 College of Agriculture and by the older established 

 schools of agriculture. These one-week meetings at 

 the institutions, for farmers and their wives, aim not 



