FARMERS INSTITUTE WORK IN 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. 
Argentina. — 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 region 
al agronomist, 1912. 
Date of talcing 
Location of regional 
agronomists. 
Consultations. 
Confer- 
ences. 
Experi- 
mental 
fields. 
Temporary 
charge. 
Verbal. 
Written. 
courses. 
1912 
1,960 
505 
20 
589 
392 
155 
286 
10 
383 
83 
63 
12 
5 
38 
6 
10 
9 

20 
5 
1912 
Entre Rios 
1912 
Chaco and Formosa 
1913: 
Tucuman 
1912 
187 
122 
106 
48 
62 
42 
4 
9 
8 
5 
1 
Santiago del Estero 
Catamarea and La Rioja 
Julv. . 
2 
1912 
San Luis 
4,747 
220 
185 
8 
124 
105 
57 
110 
977 
6 
23 
2 
5 
4 
14 
6 
70 
10 
11 
2 
San Juan •. 
Rafaela 
• 5 
5 
Pampa 
11 
1912 
Bahia Blanca 
46 
3 
6 
Total 
9,427 
2,138 
163 
173 
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The agronomists of Tucuman, Posadas, .Chaco and Formosa, Mendoza, and 
Rio Negro took charge at the end of 1912, devoting all their time to surveying 
their respective dictricts to find out their real needs. The vast and complex 
duties of the regional agronomists has not allowed them to give much time to> 
developing extension courses, but the General Board of Agricultural Instruction, 
is contemplating remedying this by the appointment of special teachers under 
the supervision of the agronomist. Agricultural instruction has been introduced 
into the army. 
1 Min. Agr. Argentina, Mem. Cong. Nac. (1912), pp. 33-36. 
