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of the Bureau Staff maintain their offices at the college. From this point, . they directly supervise vocational agriculture throughout the state, and provide project materials for boys and teaching materials for the 265 instructors in 196 schools. Samples of how the various agricultural departments and faculty of the college assist with this program are listed below: 1. Use of faculty nmmbers to visit Schools on dairy, meat animal, and poultry problems. 2. Writing of articles by Polytechnic instructors for the State Future Farmer magazine for information and improvenmnt of agriculture in the state. ‘ 3. Correspondence by heads of departments to advise high schools on problems. 4. Judging of Future Farmer livestock, poultry, and other products . at fairs. 5. Furnishing of breeding stock to improve the herds and flocks of the Future Farmers throughout the state. 6. Furnishing of baby chicks and hatching eggs to improve poultry throughout the state. 7. Preparation and distribution of teaching aids, such as film strips, charts, blue-prints, photographs, etc. D U R A T I O N A C T I V I T I E S Some of the activities of California Pblytechnic School listed in this section began prior to the entry of the United States in the war, but since these activities were directly connected with emergency defence training rather than normal pre-war agricultural-industrial training, they are included here. Some of these "duration" training programs have been -9-