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science buildings were comiileted in Alabama, Massachusetts, New 

 Mexico, North Dakota, and Indiana. 



The number of secondary schools teaching agriculture (including 

 colleges oli'ering secondary courses) was G30, and the number of nor- 

 mal schools and colleges conducting teacher-training courses in agri- 

 culture, 214. There were 58 agricultural schools and 28 public high 

 schools receiving State aid for agriculture, 432 unaided public and 

 private high schools and academies, 46 secondary schools for negroes, 

 and several colleges and schools on private foundations. Extension 

 work and short courses were successfully conducted by a number of 

 the high schools and also by normal schools. Thirty-six colleges and 

 universities in the United States now give entrance credit for high- 

 school agriculture. 



As in former years, the most effective agricultural teaching in the 

 elementaiy schools has been done where the classroom instruction 

 has been combined with some form of competition, such as boys' corn 

 clubs, potato clubs, and poultry clubs, and girls' domestic-science 

 clubs and canning clubs. In the South several of the agricultural 

 colle'ges have cooperated with this department in employing school- 

 extension agents. The number of boj^s engaged in corn-growing con- 

 tests under the joint ausi^ices of these colleges and this department 

 was this 3'ear (1910) more than 4G,000. 



The rapid progress in all phases of agricultural education has 

 naturally resulted in heavy demands upon the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. All bureaus of the department have felt this, 

 and particularly the Office of Experiment Stations, which has con- 

 tinued to act as the general agent of the department for the promotion 

 of agricultural education. The director, as the official representative 

 of the department in its relations with the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, has taken an active 

 part in all the plans of the department and the association for pro- 

 moting gTaduate, collegiate, secondary, and elementary courses in 

 agriculture and home economics. He has continued to act as bibliog- 

 rapher of the association and as chairman of its committee on instruc- 

 tion in agriculture, and has accepted the deanship of the fourth 

 session of the Graduate School of Agriculture. 



The agricultural education service of the office has continued to be 

 under the immediate direction of Mr. D. J. Crosby, who has had the 

 assistance of Mr, F, W. Howe as assistant in agricultural education 

 and of several clerical assistants. Gratifying progi-ess was made in 

 the preparation of publications for the use of teachers and in the 

 study of some of the many problems arising in connection with the 

 rapidly developing movement for instruction in agriculture. The 

 rapidity of this development and the consequent heavier demands 

 upon the agricultural education service for publications and for 

 advice concerning teachers, courses of study, equipment, methods of 



