PKOGEESS IN" AGEICULTUKAL EDUCATION. 335 



established in connection with any free high schooL If the same 

 department extends to three grades below the high school, this sum 

 is increased to $350. 



AGmCULTUBE IN STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS. 



Of the 185 State normal schools in the United States, 104 offered 

 courses in agriculture during the year; 6 others, courses in school 

 gardening; and 12, not counted in the 110 preceding, in nature study. 



The courses offered vary from four weeks in some of the schools to 

 three-year and four-year courses in others. 



The work at North Adams (Mass.) State Normal School extends over 

 three years and includes a study of the problems most closely concerned 

 with the growing of farm crops, a special study of horticulture as well 

 as poultry and dairying. 



The Central State Normal School, Mount Pleasant, Mich., con- 

 ducted a five-day institute on agricultural and rural topics. The 

 heads of the departments of chemistry, bacteriology, soils, horti- 

 culture, and forestry of the Michigan Agricultural College and mem- 

 bers of the agricultural and home economics faculty of the normal 

 school discussed their subjects in relation to the rural schools, and a 

 representative of the State grange dealt with the new rural sociology. 

 There were also discussions of the new rural spirit and conferences 

 on various subjects taught in the rural schools. 



The Third District Normal School, at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 

 addition to its regular courses for teachers, is conducting (1) a four- 

 year secondary course intended to fit young men either for farm life 

 or to enter an agricultural college, (2) a boys' short course, running 

 six weeks in winter and confined to farm mechanics and agricultural 

 science, and (3) a school for farmers, lasting from 10 days to 2 weekg. 



The State Normal and Training School at Cortland, N. Y., an- 

 nounced courses for teachers beginning with the fall of 1911. Two 

 courses are available, (1) a two-year course open to men at least 16 

 years of age who have had farm experience and the necessary training 

 to admit them to the regular normal-school courses, and (2) a one- 

 year course open to young men who are high-school graduates or 

 have had equivalent education, have had farm experience, hold a 

 life certificate valid in New York, and have had at least one year of 

 successful experience in teaching. Both courses are primarily 

 scientific and agricultural, but the two-year course includes one unit 

 of psychology, one of the history of education, two-fifths of a unit 

 of school economy, one unit of manual training, one of grammar 

 methods, and two each of observation and teaching. The work in 

 science and agriculture, wliich is common to both courses, includes 

 agricultural physics, farm mechanics, horticulture, farm crops, 

 animal husbandry, dairying, farm management and farm practice, 



