48 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



perimeiit Stations Bui, 234) ; A Preliminary Report on the Drainage 

 of the Fifth Louisiana Levee District (Office of Experiment Stations 

 Circ. 104) ; The Drainage Situation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 

 Tex. (Office of Experiment Stations Circ. 103). 



In addition, the following reports have been printed in State bul- 

 letins: Drainage Examinations and Surveys in Georgia conducted 

 by Drainage Investigations, Office of Experiment Stations, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, 1908-1911 (Geological Survey of 

 Georgia Bui. 25) ; Drainage in Iowa : The West Fork of the Des 

 Moines River (Report of the Iowa State Drainage, Waterways, and 

 Conservation Commission, 1910). 



PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The world-wade extent of the agi'icultural education movement 

 was again apparent in 1911. Nearly every civilized country in the 

 world now makes provision for instruction in agriculture in public 

 educational institutions. In man}^ instances the colleges of agricul- 

 ture are departments of universities or are otherwise associated with 

 these higher institutions of learning, and in nearly all cases where 

 new Government universities are established provision is made for 

 colleges of agriculture. For example, a provincial university re- 

 cently provided for by the Legislature of British Colinnbia is to have 

 a college of agriculture with associated schools of forestry, domestic 

 science, and veterinary science. In our card index of foreign agri- 

 cultural schools there are now over 6,500 cards, but in some cases 

 several cards refer to the same school. 



In the United States nearly every large association of educators 

 has given a prominent place in its program to agricultural educa- 

 tion, and several State commissions have been investigating the edu- 

 cational needs of agriculture and formulating plans for meeting 

 them. One new^ national association of agricultural educators was 

 formed. 



The fourth session of the Graduate School of Agriculture was held 

 at Ames. Iowa, with a larger enrollment than any previous session, 

 and the announcement was made that the fifth session would be held 

 in 1912 at the Michigan Agricultural College. 



The attendance at the land-grant colleges and the funds available 

 for their support were larger than in any previous year. The}'^ had 

 53,700 students in interior courses, and over 35 per cent of these were 

 in agricultural courses. They also had over 169,000 students in ex- 

 terior courses, not including farmers' institute gatherings addressed 

 by college men. The additions to the equipment of these institutions 

 were valued at over five and one-half million dollars. Among the 

 large biennial appropriations to these colleges and universities were 



