The members of the class may compete, if desired, in formulating a suitable letter, and a class committee may select the best, or formulate one on the basis of suggestions from the class.
Materials collected in this way should become school property, and the class should be conscious that it is accumulating a library for later classes as well as for themselves. Study and report on the following:
The organization of your state department of agriculture, its officers and how chosen, its divisions and their work.
The work done at your state experiment station (individual reports may be made on the several important lines of work, or on particular investigations or discoveries of interest).
The character of the extension courses offered by your state agricultural college. Courses given in your own community.
Instances of regulative work done in your state and county by your state department of agriculture.
Instances in which your county or locality has been served by your state agricultural college or by the experiment station.
The difficulty of the farmer in coping with animal disease or plant disease by his own effort.
Facts to show that money has been saved to your community by the state agricultural department or experiment station.
Why the people of the cities of your state should pay taxes to support the department of agriculture.