PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION". 305 



teachinir clomentar}' agriculture. A card directory of about 1,200 

 teachers and investigators in agricultural subjects has been prepared 

 for use in the Office, and about 1,000 cards of agricultural educa- 

 tional institutions in foreign countries have been written. Upward 

 of '200 lantern slides, illustrating different phases of agricultural 

 education, have been prepared and used frequently in illusti-ating 

 addresses before meetings of teachers, school officers, and children. 

 Over twenty lectures and other addresses on elementary instruction 

 in agriculture have been given by Mr. Dick J. Crosby of the Office 

 staff during the year, princijially before bodies of teachers, and the 

 Director has addressed several representative assemblies of teachers 

 and farmers on the same subject. 



RELATION TO FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS. 



The following account of two of the international congresses at 

 Liege, Belgium, in 1905, has been prepared by Mr. W. H. Beal, 

 delegate to the congresses from the U. S. Department of Agriculture : 



SECOXn IXTERXATIOXAL CONGRESS OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION." 



This congress, one of the many congresses held in connection with 

 the International Exposition of Liege, met in the Salle des Fetes, a 

 large auditorium on the exposition grounds admirably adapted to the 

 purpose. The congress extended over two days, July 28 and 29. It 

 was conducted under the patronage of the Belgian Government and 

 of the minister of agriculture. Baron van der Bruggen, as well as of 

 an honorary international conmiittee composed of the honorary com- 

 mittees and government delegates of various foreign countries, 

 committees of propaganda having been formed in the different coun- 

 tries some time in advance of the meeting of the congress to give 

 publicity to it and to encourage participation in its proceedings by 

 duly accredited delegates. Such a connnittee was not regularly 

 organized in the United States, but considerable propaganda work 

 was done through the Office of Hxperiment Stations. The U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture sent a delegate, and the Kansas Agri- 

 cultural College and the Universities of Illinois and California were 

 also represented at the congress. 



The congress was divided into four sections: 



(1) Higher agricultural educati(m, dealing with arrangement of 

 courses, degrees, conditions of admissions, etc., methods of in.struc- 

 tion, and cooperation between higher education and research 

 institutions. 



"The first international t-ongress was held at Paris in I'JOO. 

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