318 KEPOKT OF orncE or expeiument stations. 



That afrri^iiltiirnl oxtonsion work be developed, and especially in 

 the line of beekeepiIl<_^ in order to disseminate the perfected methods 

 in this branch of work. 



International Agricultural Congress of The Hague in 1891. — That 

 the establishment of practical professional schools and winter schools 

 is of very <jreat importance, and that the choice of their teachers from 

 the <j:raduates of the a<i:ricultnral institutes is essential. 



That agricultural instruction should not be regarded as a special 

 branch of the programme of the i)rimary school. 



International Agricvltvral Congress of Brussels in 1895. — It is 

 advisable to develop instruction in the natural sciences, physics, and 

 chemistry, in the educational institutions of every rank, from 

 the elementary school to and including the institutions teaching 

 philosophy. 



To make agricultural instruction more available to girls by multi- 

 plying the agricultural household schools. 



To increase the number of agriculturists and professors of agri- 

 culture delivering lectures throughout the country, and to provide 

 them with the necessary resources enabling them to develop practical 

 instruction, and to form as close relations as possible with the tillers 

 of the soil. 



To increase the number of agricultural courses for adults to such 

 an extent that this instruction may be given in almost every com- 

 munity. 



Primary agricultural education should be reorganized along the 

 following lines: (1) The instructor, at the time of his graduation 

 from the normal school, should be given a scholarship, at the ex- 

 pense of the State, in one of the practical schools of agriculture; (2) 

 a special agricultural course should be established in rural primary 

 schools; and (3) by insisting upon the application of the resolution 

 with reference to inspectors of agriculture and their supervision over 

 instruction in agricultural matters, adopted at the Congress of Paris 

 in 1880. 



These recommendations are also applicable to girls' schools. 



The section on popular agricultural education deems it urgent to 

 encourage as much as possible instruction in agricultural book- 

 keeping, or accounting. Theoretical and, above all, practical w^ork 

 in this branch should be given in the normal schools for men and 

 women, in the agricultural schools, and in the domestic science insti- 

 tutions. It is of equal importance that for some time to come, and 

 beginning immediately, special courses be established for the benefit 

 of men and w^omen teachers wdio are actively engaged in teaching, 

 and in general for all persons giving public agricultural instruction. 



International Agricultural Congress of Lausanne^ in 1898. — That 



