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own farm his contacts with the various deâ€" partments of the College get him into the practice of bringing his farm problems to experts who may be able to help him. The President paid a tribute to the influence of Padre Young, college chaplain, with the stu- dents. Young men who take the degree course may not return to practical farming but they usually go into work directly related to the good of agriculture and there are never enough graduates for the positions waiting to be filled. Dr. MacLachlan appealed to the women to use their influence to interest more young men of their communities in the courses offered not only at Guelph but also in the Agricultural Schools at Kemptville and Ridge- town. Dr. Margaret McCready, Principal of Mac- donald Institute‘ thanked the Institutes for the scholarships awarded to Macdonald stu- dents and mentioned the Norfolk and Welling- ton Institutes as extending their county schol- arships to girls on the same basis as to young men. Dr, McCready outlined the degree and diploma courses in Home Economics, ex- plaining the practical education and wonder- ful college year the diploma course could give a girl; and the outstanding professional opportunitiesâ€"including extension workâ€"for graduates of the degree course. In her own home, the home economics graduate would find her training of immeasurable value in meeting the problems of this machine age. Dr. McCready argued that our civilization can not prosper unleSs women have educational opportunities equal to men’s. Mr. E. I. McLoughry, Associate Director of the Extension Branch who coâ€"ordinates the work of extension personnel and the three colleges on the campus, explained that exâ€" tension workers depend on research stations to supply the answers to farm problems. And there is no object in spending a great deal of money on research if the findings are not translated into action on individual farms. So extension and research must be closely inteâ€" grated, An extension program should be based Miss Helen McKercher, leH with Dr. Margaret Nix and Mrs. J‘. Ri Fulrher, speakers at the conference. UU-LC. lela 12 on the current needs of the farm family but the broader, national interest must he, be kept in mind. And Mr. McLoughry remn-lded the women that they are partners with me Department in extension work. ‘ “Those of us interested in extension." l-Ir McLoughry said, “must have vision and am and a long-time view point. Aims an hard to express clearly in words, a dull ache .im. ing on toward a distant goal. We depend lpgn mere experienced men and women in OUT vision. We must be able to look back U ism: way before we can look ahead a 1011: C ay So let us use perhaps five per cent ..; Um, time looking into the future for new prw sit-es and standards, and ninetyâ€"five per cent . gm time doing the definite, practical jobs m. day and tomorrow. planning our year ~ my each day we may be most efficient ‘ 3",; tasks of the present,” Home Economics Extension Service Miss Helen McKercher, Director - m. Economics Service, Extension Branch. 0 my, Department of Agriculture, stressed 1hL M that extension work is a co-operative r prise, of the Department and the p e working together, and she urged the v an to give her their suggestions and recon u» dationsâ€"either at the conference or in a r :er at any time, as to what they would iv to have included in the extension servio u- gramme. “We want to progress in .9 a way.” Miss McKercher said, “that peop ' decide for themselves, not to get What :3 think they want but the things that an est. We haVe a responsibility to set value an the first objective of extension work is tr v-ip people to help themselves, and to thiii Jrir themselves. Our worst sin,” the Directt ic- clared, “would be to do your thinking ft‘ L1 Extension is a job for team work." MlSS McKercher expressed the Vieu in extension work can be done best wht- flt‘ farm family is considered as a whole, hi im- the farmer and his Wife and children ll: v-ir work and their interests are so close a nil that it is impossible to separate them \i‘ " weakening their ability to help them* Farm women as well as men should hr, -- cerned that the average milk productits- «1' year of all the cows in Ontario is 6,000 13 while in 32 herds registered in the Dairy [It Improvement last year the average prom all was over 10,000 pounds; that the an :6 farmer feeds 4%. pounds of grain to piv o: 1 DOUHd 0f pork, while experiments ‘ pound 0f DOI‘k is produced from 3.7 pour H: grain. Both men and women should tie a keen interest in farm and home manage; ill. money management, child development. 4‘" 113' relationships and health. “New programmes will develop as 11$ Changing needs of families become appalu '9 Miss McKercher said, “We must. mee- Challenge to base our programme on lil- needs of families and to keep up with de\' up» ments in research and technology which H1“ HOME AND coon!in