Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . are furnished free. The outing continues for aweek and is attended every year by from fifty to one hundredboys, who gladly embrace its opportunity for education andrecreation. Demonstration zvork and exhibit trains. Demonstrationwork has been a familiar idea among farmers institute in-structors for many years, but it is recently being enlarged toinclude several new lines of work. Illustrative material inthe shape of living animals, specimens, c
Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . are furnished free. The outing continues for aweek and is attended every year by from fifty to one hundredboys, who gladly embrace its opportunity for education andrecreation. Demonstration zvork and exhibit trains. Demonstrationwork has been a familiar idea among farmers institute in-structors for many years, but it is recently being enlarged toinclude several new lines of work. Illustrative material inthe shape of living animals, specimens, charts, and lantern FARMERS INSTITUTES 99 slides, and excursions to farms, factories, and particu-lar sites are now quite common. Field demonstrations inwhich the instructor conducts classes out of doors are famil-iar also. In Michigan, Kansas, Virginia, Washington, andelsewhere special institute trains have been employed for pur-poses of demonstration. These cars are fitted up with ex-hibits of fruit, cereals, and grain, and run through thedifferent sections of the state. Large audiences attend thelectures of the specialists who accompany The Grout Encampment for Farm Boys Movable schools. Thus far farmers institutes have notattempted to give regular systematic instruction. Righthere, says Institute Specialist John Hamilton, is where thepresent system seems to fail. To meet this deficiency a newdevice, the movable school of agriculture, has been intro-duced. These schools are common throughout Europe anddiffer but little from the familiar short courses frequentlyoffered in this country. The method of their management is lOO COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL very simple. The state director or superintendent arranges inadvance at the different institute centers for the formationof classes numbering from ten to fifteen persons who have acommon interest in a certain topic, and agree to attend faith-fully upon a course of lectures and to participate in suchpractical work as
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