EDUCATIONAL WORK 



Course in Agricultural Education 



The State Board of Education has au- 

 thorized a new course at the Iowa State 

 College — a course in Agricultural Educa- 

 tion. Its purpose is to train teachers for 

 agricultural and domestic science work in 

 secondary schools. There Is a wide and 

 rapidly increasing sentiment in favor of 

 industrial training in the public schools. 

 The demand is far in excess of the supply 

 of teachers. Public school work has not 

 heretofore appealed to the graduates of the 

 agricultural colleges. Recently the demand 

 has become so great that the schools are 

 paying from $1,000 to $1,500 for graduates, 

 with assurance of a rapid advance as merit- 

 ed. Other states are paying much larger 

 salaries than Iowa. Out of S55 students 

 enrolled in the Division of Agriculture at 

 Ames during the past year, comparatively 

 few are looking forward to a teaching pro- 

 fession. Of the 78 students graduating 

 from the Division of Agriculture this year 

 not over 10 per cent will become teachers. 

 The establishment of this course is in 

 recognition of the demand upon agricultu- 

 ral colleges for teachers specially trained 

 for the secondary schools. It is recognized 

 that the progress of this work will be meas- 

 ured by the qualifications of the teachers 

 having it in charge. It will probably be 

 many years before the supply of such teach- 

 ers is equal to the demand. 



Prof. A. V. Storm, who has been elected 

 to head the new department, has had an 

 extensive experience in public school work, 

 and his service in the extension department 

 of the college during the past four years 

 has supplemented his school experience in 

 a way that will strengthen him for this 

 work. 



University of Nebraska 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Re- 

 gents of the University of Nebraska two 

 changes were made in the faculty of the 

 Forestry Department. The vacancy made 

 by the death of Professor Frank J. Phillips 

 was filled by the promotion of 0. L. Spong- 

 ier from Adjunct Professor, and W. J. Dup- 

 pert was appointed Adjunct Professor. Mr. 

 Dupport received both his Bachelor's and 

 his Master's degrees in Forestry from the 

 University of Michigan. His experience 



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along forestry lines extends over several 

 years in New York, Ohio, and as Forest 

 Assistant on the Coconino National Forest, 

 Arizona. 



Chair of Forestry 



University of Missouri Will Put in Regular 

 Course in Forestry Under Prof. Ferguson 



St. Louis., Mo., July 3. — For the first 



time in the history of the University of 

 Missouri, at Columbia, Mo., there will he 

 given, this fall, regular courses in forestry, 

 the position of professor of forestry having 

 now been created in connection with the 

 College of Agriculture. 



The new department of the university's • 

 work will be in charge of Prof. J. A. Fer- 

 guson, of State College, Pennsylvania, who 

 has been appointed professor of forestry at 

 the university. Prof. Ferguson is a grad- 

 uate of the Yale Forestry School and has 

 for nearly two years been the head of the 

 department of forestry at the State College 

 of Pennsylvania. He will begin his work 

 at Missouri University in September. 



Fifty thousand acres of forest lands in 

 the southern part of Missouri are owned by 

 the College of Agriculture of the State Uni- 

 versity, and it is planned to utilize these 

 lands for the instruction of the students in 

 practical forestry. 



List of Schools 



In the December number of American 

 Forestry we published, for the information 

 of those interested, a list of universities, 

 colleges and institutions where forestry 

 may be studied, giving a statement of the 

 nature and scope of the work done in each 

 case. Necessarily these were very brief, 

 and since then we have been arranging a 

 series of articles dealing more fully with 

 the details of the courses in the various 

 institutions. The first of these articles ap- 

 peared in the August number. In this 

 issue — the educational number — we are 

 publishing four more of them, and hope to 

 continue with one or more in each succes- 

 sive number. 



Fifteen New Men for Missouri College Staff 



With an increase of 227 per cent in the 

 total enrollment of students at the Missouri 

 College of Agriculture, it has been found 



