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and the whole enterprise is fostered and encouraged by the
Experiment Station. Interest in Farmers’ Week is steadily
increasing and it has proven a very potent influence in
directing the attention of the agricultural public toward the
Experiment Station as the natural center of agricultural
information. This and other lines of` endeavor have served ·
, to increase the calls for assistance many-fold, and the possi-
. bilities of expansion along these several lines can scarcely be
. estimated. i
{ 2. Extension Publications. During the period included in
3 this report, a bi-weekly series of press bulletins has been
_ published through cooperation with the Western Newspaper
3 Union and the Associated Publishers Company. To the
O Western Newspaper Union, six columns of·agricultural
Ll educational matter are supplied each month, this material in
._ turn being sent by the syndicate to approximately two
, hundred county newspapers within the State, in the form of
  · so—called plate matter, which insures its publication by these
he papers. The Associated Publishers Company issues a colored
d magazine supplement monthly to fifty newspapers within
lr the State. Such material as we supply to this Company
IS usually appears in this colored supplement once a month in
fifty county newspapers of the State.
in 3. itinerant Advisory Work. One of the most effective lines
pty of our extension work has been that accomplished by our
_S, traveling advisers who have given advice and assistance on
H- an infinite variety of farm enterprises. This advisory work
qd has been done largely by members of other departments of
ity the Experiment Station under arrangements made by the
me extension service.
ml 4. Educational and Agriculturczl Exhibits. Educational _
ms and agricultural exhibits have been made at the leading fairs