Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y., 1904 The most important developments in the Farmers' Reading Course (state Extension work) have been the substitution of Discussion Papers for the Quiz, thus increasing the amount of personal correspondence between -the reader and Supervisor and making the former a collaborator instead of a mere interrogatee the revision and illustrating of bulletins, rendering them more clear and intelligible the increase in the number of Farmers' Reading Clubs; and the beginning of a correspondence course in advanced reading under the guidance of the Supervisor. Twenty bulletins, arranged in four series of five bulletins each, have now been published dealing with the Soil and Plant Growth, Stock Feeding, Orcharding, and Poultry Husbandry, and two more series, one on Dairying and one on the Farm Home, are soon to be added. It is then proposed to cease publishing new bulletins to avoid the danger of making the course unwieldy and hence less efficient. The enrollment in this course during the past year was bulletins being sent only to those per sons who acknowledged their receipt. XI. The Farmers' Wives' Reading Course (state Extension work) had an enrollment of when the reading year closed last spring. Five bulle tins were issued during the year dealing with subjects of interest to the home keeper. In all the Extension courses discussion papers are sent out at stated intervals to all regularly enrolled readers and when such papers are returned each is carefully read and if questions are asked or an opportunity is given for a reply, a personal letter is sent to the reader. Such in brief have been the varied and extended activities of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and the Division of Extension Teaching in Agriculture during the past year. With the limited facilities at hand, this work has taxed the College of Agriculture, which is the agent of the Federal Government and of the State, to the utmost. As soon, however. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.