Excerpt from Foreign Agricultural Extension Activities

Lecturers are provided at the request cf the agricultural societies and other rural organizations which are not charged for this service but are required to provide the hall and advertise the meetings. The plan by which the extension branch furnished lecturers until the winter of 1924 - 25 was to send out together two experts one, a livestock specialist and the other, a field crops Special ist. These two experts spent one or two days at a place, giving lectures each afternoon and evening. As this plan had never proved very satisfactory, owing to the general character of the subjects covered, and the fact that the same persons were not able to attend both afternoon and evening meetings, a new plan was adopted in the season of l924 25. By this plan each society was of fered two lectures on definite subjects, to be given at different times during the winter, either in the afternoon or evening, as seemed more convenient. The audiences were much smaller under this new plan, but those who attended got more satisfaction. During 1924 - 25, lectures were given on farm poultry, the farm garden, the control of weeds, farm dairying, beekeeping, gen eral agriculture, and veterinary science. A total of 128 lectures was given with an attendance of Besides these lectures, special lectures, accompained by demonstra tions, were given on the bacon-hog industry. These were conducted by the Domin ion livestock branch in Cooperation with the extension Special bacon branch of the provincial department and were given at points lectures where the farmers were especially interested in hog raising. Each lecturer was provided with a select bacon hog and two cured sides, one from a select and the other fron a thick smooth hog, and in each district where the lectures were held, four or five farmers were each asked to bring in a hog as near the weight of the select bacon hog as possible. These and the select hog were all kept together in a yard and a demnstration and discussion on market types and grading were conducted. Everyone of the 517 farmers who at tended the ll special lectures were actually engaged in hog raising and were deep ly interested in the subject of market type hogs and the proper and most economi cal method of raising select h0gs. _radio lectures. An innovation was introduced in the fall of 1923 by the agricultural extension branch of the department of agriculture in the form of a series of lectures on timely agricultural types by radio. A list of these lectures, which were given by members of the college of agriculture staff, was sent to each of the agricultural societies, requesting them to arrange to re ceive the lectures and to provide for their publicity, if possible, through the local newspapers. Some of the titles of the lecture were: Preparing Poultry for Market, Seasonable Reminders for Horticulturists, The Brood Sow Her Care and Selection, The Importance of Winter Dairying in Saskatchewan, Growing Grain in Rows a Success, Winter Care of Poultry, A Report of the Internatioanl Livestock Show, A Message to Saskatchewan Women, Playing Safe with the Feed Problems, Spring Care of Farm Machinery, Preparing for the Spring Litter, Reproducing the Poultry Flock, The Home Garden, and Opportunities for the Farm Boy.

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