324 REPOKT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



A spring school of agriculture, home economics, and related sub- 

 jects for teachers was offered by the Kansas Agricultural College 

 from March 28 to June 14. 



The New York State College of Agriculture, at Cornell University, 

 held its fu"st summer school for teachers from July 6 to August 6, 

 1911. The special purpose was the training of teachers in agricul- 

 ture, nature study, and home economics. 



Besides the four weeks' summer course in agricultural practice for 

 teachers at the Michigan Agricultural College, there was also a con- 

 ference of ministers with lectures each forenoon, an open conference 

 each day at 11 a. m., and afternoon lectures and demonstrations in 

 horticulture and domestic science, the latter for ministers' wives. 



The number of institutions offering summer courses for teachers 

 has continued to increase. The primary purpose of these summer 

 schools is to furnish teachers, ministers, housekeepers, business men 

 and women, and all others interested directly or indirectly in better 

 home making, better farming, and better schooling, an opportunity 

 to study the elements of scientific agriculture, home economics, and 

 manual training at a season of the year when they can attend and 

 when much of this work can be studied to the best advantage, and also 

 an opportunity to counsel together regarding ways and means of 

 promoting these great movements. 



EXTENSION AND SHORT COURSES. 



A new phase of agricultural instruction has developed in recent 

 years in the various forms of agricultural extension work. This 

 movement is destined to be far-reaching in its results, and it is clearly 

 one of the most potent influences in the education of the ])eople along 

 agricultural lines. This phase of agricultural instruction, which is 

 bringing science to the aid of agriculture by reaching the man in the 

 field and on the farm, the children in the public school, the family in 

 the home, is calling for well- trained men far in excess of the supply. 



In 43 States there were directors in charge of extension work. 

 Among the States giving the largest appropriations for this work were 

 Iowa and New York, $50,000 each; Indiana, $49,200; Minnesota, 

 $42,000; Ohio and Wisconsin, $40,000 each ; Kansas, $35,000 ; Georgia, 

 $30,000; Massachusetts, $20,000; Illinois, $19,900, and Nebraska, 

 $17,500. 



The extension work during the year has included such enterprises 

 as educational trains, trolley cars, movable schools, boys' encamp- 

 ments, work with public school teachers, boys' and girls' agricultural 

 clubs, correspondence courses, and farmers' institutes. A more 

 detailed account of this work may be found in the report of the farm- 

 ers' institute specialist, beginning on page 343. 



