320 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



RELATION TO AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 



In addition to the regular editorial work of the agricultural educa- 

 tion service in connection with the department of agricultural educa- 

 tion in the P^xperiment Station Record, which involved the review 

 of more than 3,000 American and foreign publications and the 

 prejiaration of the annual organization lists, statistics, review of 

 progress in agricultural education, and lists of education publications 

 and institutions, the service has published special bulletins and 

 circulars concerning secondary agricultural education, boys' and 

 girls" agricultural clubs, forestry in nature study, normal-school in- 

 struction in agriculture, and testing seed corn in school, and has 

 submitted for publication manuscripts dealing with a secondary 

 course in animal production, school exercises in plant production, 

 and school lessons on corn. One of the most helpful circulars issued 

 was that giving a classified list of the free publications of the depart- 

 ment which are suitable for the use of teachers of agriculture, home 

 economics, botany, chemistry, and other sciences. 



Studies of American and foreign schools in which agriculture 

 is taught have been continued. The educational exhibit of this 

 office which was prepared for the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition 

 at Seattle has been sent to Argentina for exhibition at the Inter- 

 national Agricultural Exposition at Buenos Aires. The card index 

 relating to the American schools now contains over 6,000 cards. 

 The card directory of American teachers and investigators in agri- 

 culture has undergone its annual revision and now contains about 

 2,100 names. In connection with the directory, a list of applicants 

 for positions and a list of vacancies in institutions are kept closely 

 up to date. The directory and these lists facilitate greatly the large 

 correspondence of the office regarding the personnel of the institu- 

 tions concerned. 



Educational work in cooperation with the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations has been continued. 

 The director of this office has continued to act as bibliographer of the 

 association, as chairman of its committees on instruction in agri- 

 culture and on the history of agricultural education, and was dean 

 of the Graduate School of Agriculture, the fourth session of which 

 was held at Ames, Iowa, during July, 1910. The specialist in agri- 

 cultural education, as secretary of the association committee, has 

 recently submitted for publication a secondary course in animal 

 production, which was prepared for the committee by Prof. H. R. 

 Smith, of the University of Nebraska. 



The specialist in agi'icultural education and his assistant have 

 attended many conferences and large educational gatherings and have 

 assisted school officers and teachers in many ways through corre- 



