FABMEBS' INSTITUTE WORK IK" 1914. 



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work of the pupils. The teachers have a fixed salary paid by the State. When 

 the school is not in session they hold conferences or public courses for farmers' 

 wives. 



All of the schools are supplied with suitable equipment for practical instruc- 

 tion, such as churns, separators, refrigerators, cheese-making utensils, cooking 

 utensils, washing machines, sewing machines, etc. At the end of each session 

 an examination is held in the different branches taught. 



The success of movable schools is generally much greater than that of per- 

 manent schools, because the small and middle class farmers can not easily 

 send their children to ^school for one or two years. The temporary schools, 

 which last only four months, come to the pupils in their homes and are, there- 

 fore, more easily established. 



Abgextixa. — Agriculture in Argentina 1 is handicapped because those who 

 follow it are frequently ignorant of its most fundamental principles, many of 

 them being immigrants who have recently taken up farm work to meet the 

 necessities of life and are not familiar with their new conditions. This explains 

 the important place that extension instruction occupies in the agricultural 

 development of the country. 



The extension service is in direct charge of the regional agronomists, who at 

 present (1912) number 20. They expedite their work by means of consultations, 

 temporary courses, inspections, competitions, and expositions. 



The following table gives a summary of the work of the regional agronomist 

 in 1912 : 





Summary of work 



of regional agronomist, 1912. 





Date of taking 



Location of regional 

 agronomists. 



Consultations. 



Confer- 

 ences. 



Experi- 

 mental 

 fields. 



Temporary 



charge. 



Verbal. 



Written. 



courses^ 



1912 



Mercedes 



1,960 



505 



20 



5S9 



392 



155 

 286 



10 

 383 



83 



63 

 12 



5 

 38 



6 



10 

 9 

 



20 

 5 





Mav 



Olavarria 





April 



Campana 





1912 



Entre Rios 





1912 



Corrientes 





October 



Chaco and Formosa 





1913: 



January 



Posadas 







' 







November 



Tucuman 













1912 





1X7 

 122 

 106 



48 

 62 

 42 



4 



9 

 8 

 5 





Mav 



Santiago del Estero 



Catamarea and La Itioja 

 Mendoza 





Julv 



2 





November 





1912 





4,717 

 220 

 185 

 8 

 124 

 105 

 57 



no 



977 

 6 

 23 

 2 

 5 

 4 



14 

 6 



70 

 10 

 11 







Cordoba. ..' 





Mav 



San Juan 





June 











Rosario 



5 



5 









J'ampa 



11 





December 



Ft io Nepro : 





I'tl2 



Bahia Hlanca 



46 



3 



6 







Total 







9,427 



2,138 



163 



173 



:5 









The agronomists of Tucuman, Posadas, Chaco and Formosa, Mendoza, and 

 Bio Negro took charge at, the end of L912, devoting all their time to surveying 

 their respective dlctricta to find out their real needs. The vast and complex 

 duties of the regional agronomists has not allowed them to give much lime to. 

 developing extension courses, but the General Board of Agricultural Instruction 

 mtemplatlng remedying this by the appointment of special teachers under 

 the supervision of the agronomist. Agricultural Instruction has been introduced 



into the army. 



'.Mill. Agr, Argentina, .Mum. <onn. Na<\ Mini:), pp. .".:;-:'.<;. 



