PEOGRESS IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION". 281 



Mr. Hare was appointed assistant in agi-iciiltiiral education and rural 

 economics March 23, 1911, but during the remainder of the fiscal year 

 devoted more of his time to rural economics than to agricultural 

 education. 



RELATION TO AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 



In connection with the editorial work of the department of agri- 

 cultural education in the Experiment Station Record, more than 

 1,700 foreign and about an equal number of American publications 

 have been reviewed. In addition to the annual organization lists, 

 statistics of agricultural colleges and experiment stations, review of 

 progi'ess in agricultural education, and lists of educational publica- 

 tions and institutions, tliere have been prepared and published 

 special bulletins, circulars, and reprints concerning school exercises 

 in plant production, school lessons on corn, agriculture as first-year 

 science and community work in the rural high scliool, and an article 

 dealing with county schools of agriculture and domestic economy in 

 Wisconsin has been submitted for publication. In cooperation with 

 the Forest Service a Farmers' Bulletin on Forest Nurseries for Schools 

 was published, and a short course in forestry was conducted at the 

 agi'icultural school of Baltimore County, Md. A contour map of 

 the grounds of this school was also made, and with the assistance of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry a planting plan combining the elements 

 of a botanic garden and an ornamental plantation was prepared. 



Studies of American and foreign agricultural schools have been 

 continued. The card index of foreign schools now contains over 

 6,500 cards, and that of American schools over 8,600 cards of insti- 

 tutions and 900 cards of teachers of agriculture. A list of American 

 colleges and schools teaching home economics was prepared and 

 published in the Journal of Home Economics. The card directory 

 of American teachers and investigators in agriculture has been 

 revised and now contains about 2,400 names. This dnectory is 

 maintained for the convenience of agricultural colleges and other 

 institutions seeking trained teachers and investigators. 



Cooperation with the Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations has been continued. The director 

 of this office has continued to act as bibliographer of the association, 

 as chairman of its committees on instruction in agriculture, and on 

 the history of agricultural education, and as dean of the Graduate 

 School of Agriculture, the fifth session of which is to be held at the 

 Michigan Agricultural College during July, 1912. The specialist in 

 agricultural education helped to organize an association known as 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Teach- 

 ing, which is referred to elsewhere in this review. 



