PROGKESS IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 627 



dormitories. The school is under the management of a board of 21 

 directors and a faculty of 13 members. 



In Elyria, Ohio, a city of about lo,0(»0 inhabitants, ]Mr. Lyman 

 Carrier, a g^raduate of the ]\Iichigan Ajiricultural College, has recently 

 been appointed teacher of sciences in the public high school, and an 

 elective course has been arranged in which agriculture is to be taught 

 in the third and fourth years. A class of T bo^'s, all sons of farmers, 

 elected this course the present school year. Instruction in animal 

 hus))andry. with special reference to dairy animals, is being given b}' 

 lectures, la>)oratoiy exercises, visits to farms, et<'. Later on soils and 

 farm crops will })v taken up. Of the 327 students in the Elyria High 

 School this year. 103 arc from the country. This work is being 

 watched with great interest, since in Ohio and in many other States 

 are high schools containing large numbers of country boys to whom 

 such courses, if successful, will appeal. 



THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS. 



The movement for the introduction of the teaching of agricultural 

 subjects into the primary schools made considerable progress during 

 the past year. This matter is being widely discussed in assemblies of 

 teachers and farmers and in the press. But better and more effective 

 than this are the actual trials of such instruction in the schools, which 

 are now going on in a number of places in different parts of the 

 country. The State legislatures are being affected ])y this movement 

 and already laws have ]:)een passed in a number of States by which 

 instruction in agriculture in the public schools is permitted or 

 encouraged. Such laws now exist in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illi- 

 nois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan. ^Missouri, North Carolina, and 

 Wisconsin. 



The State superintendents of pul)lic in.struction are beginning to 

 tiike an active interest in this subject. Definite provision is made for 

 elementary courses in agriculture in the general courses of study out- 

 lined for the pu])lic schools in Illinois and Missouri. In Illinois this 

 course has been prepared l)V Prof. Eugene Davenport, dean of the 

 College of Agriculture of the Universitv of Illinois, and includes out- 

 lines and suggestions for a .series of simple observations and exi)eri- 

 ments on a variety of topics connected with the growth of cultivated 

 plants and with animal husbandry, arranged according to the months 

 of the school year and the vacation period. 



In New Hampshire a similai- course has been prepared by Prof. 

 G. H. Whitcher. superintendent of schools for .several towns, and 

 recently president of the State Teachers' Association. 



Provision has been made for the training of teachers in agricultural 

 subjects in the three State normal schools of Missouri, in county train- 



