322 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATION'S. 



According to recent data 46§ per cent of the graduates of the North 

 Dakota Agricultural College are now engaged in expermient station 

 work, 16§ per cent are farming, 13 J per cent are teaching agriculture 

 in agricultural colleges, 10 per cent are teaching agriculture in high 

 schools, 10 per cent are agricultural extension lecturers and demon- 

 strators, and 3 1 per cent are connected with farm journals. Of the 

 1,582 young men who have taken the shorter courses in agriculture 

 during the past 5 years, 95 per cent are said to be employed in farm 

 work. 



During the past two years a course of lectures has been given on 

 forestry at Lehigh University. In addition to this an arboretmn is 

 being developed in the university park for the education of the public 

 as well as of the student body, and a museum of cut woods showing 

 samples of tunber is being assembled. 



Instruction in agriculture is now offered by the department of 

 education of the University of Porto Rico in 6 of the 41 supervisory 

 districts. In each of these districts there is a special teacher of 

 agriculture who gives instruction in the graded schools and superin- 

 tends the work of the rural teachers in that subject. 



A bill was passed by the Utah Legislature allowing the agricultural 

 college to offer degree coiu^ses in agricultural engineering, this to 

 include courses in migation, drainage, public roads, water supplies, 

 and sanitation, farm buildings, and farm machinery. 



A new line of work dealing with problems of city milk supply and 

 ice cream making has been organized at the University of Wisconsin. 

 A course in agricultural advertising is also offered. The course com- 

 prises lectures on methods of farm advertising and practice in the 

 writing of advertisements of live stock, seeds, dairy products, etc. 

 A new field course in farm management was tried out wdth eight 

 students for a period of three weeks, both students and instructors 

 living in tents. The first camp was pitched in a cow pasture near a 

 small station called Betliesda Crossing, and the second in an orchard 

 at^osendale. In the vicinity of these camps the boys studied some 

 of the most succcssfid farms in Wisconsin. 



Probably the greatest factor in the development of engineering 

 education in this country A\"as the passage of the MorrUl Act in 1862, 

 providing for colleges of agricidture and mechanic arts throughout 

 the Union. In 1909 tlicre were, according to the report of the Com- 

 missioner of Education, a total of 31,748 engineering students in aU 

 the universities, colleges, and technical schools of the United States, 

 Of this t<)tal number, 17,892 were in the land-grant colleges. These 

 and other data show that the land-grant colleges arc training more 

 than 56 per cent of all tlie cngineerhig students of the Nation. The 

 movement, however, in the direction of training men for the engineer- 

 ing work of the farm and the coimtry dates back but a few years, 



