PROGRESS Iisr AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 295 



and stated that a secondary course in animal production was in press 

 and would be issued as a circular of this office.^ 



The discussion of questions relating to the organizing and con- 

 ducting of extension work in agriculture was a prominent feature of 

 the convention. The report of the committee on extension work, 

 presented by K. L. Butterfield, chairman, was devoted to a discus- 

 sion of the problems confronting extension work in agricultural col- 

 leges, notably those dealing with the need of largely increased funds 

 for the purpose and the source from which these should be derived, 

 definitions and nomenclature relating to extension work, the types 

 of work to be undertaken, the forms of administrative organization, 

 the training requisite for workers, and the problem of social leader- 

 ship. As a supplement to the report, detailed data compiled by John 

 Hamilton, of this office, as to the present status of extension work in 

 the United States, were submitted. These showed that 82 States 

 and Territories now have complete or partially complete organizations 

 for the purpose, and that the revenue in 29 States for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1910, aggregated $447,110.92. With reference to the 

 method of organization, the committee favored in general the plan 

 whereby the work is performed by a director or superintendent of 

 extension work, responsible directly to the head of the agricultural 

 work of the institution, and a corps of workers made up in part of 

 men giving practically all their time to extension teaching and in 

 part of the regular college and station staff. 



A round-table conference, led by W. E. Stone and A. M. Soule, on 

 national aid to extension work and secondary vocational education, 

 followed the presentation of the report. After earnest discussion of 

 the matter, the association reaffirmed its approval of national aid to 

 extension work and requested the executive committee to use all 

 legitimate means to secure such aid, but declined to make any formal 

 expression of views regarding pending legislation providing for 

 national aid to secondary vocational education. Later, however, 

 this matter was referred to the newly established standing committee 

 on college organization and policy for investigation and report at the 

 next convention. 



The question of the agricultural colleges charging a fee to nonresi- 

 dent students was discussed at one session of the convention, and a 

 diversity of practice in this respect was developed. Chancellor 

 Samuel Avery, of Nebraska, thought no fee should be charged. 

 President Stone, of Indiana, and Dean Russell, of Wisconsin, agreed 

 with tliis position in theory, but thought a fee necessary to equalize 

 burdens between resident and nonresident students and to protect 

 the college. Apparently foreign students arc not as a rule charged a 

 fee by the institutions represented in the association. 



' U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Circ. 100. 



