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planting, grafting, budding, etc., observation work in the college 

 orchards, gardens, nurseries, greenhouses, etc., and vocational work, 

 in which the student is told to make a vegetable garden, a flower 

 garden, or a nursery, and (2) nonresident work, including farm 

 experience, which in some places is made a requirement for gradua- 

 tion, inspection trips, one of which extended from Pennsylvania 

 State College to Philadelphia, several points in New Jersey, Kennett 

 Square and West Grove, Pa., Baltimore, Washington, and Norfolk, 

 and survey work, in which the students undertake different horticul- 

 tural surveys and are furnished written instructions and information 

 blanks to be used in making the survej^s. 



A short paper on an Experience in Field Work in a Well-estab- 

 lished School of Agriculture was read by K. C. Davis, in which the 

 field laboratory work as conducted at the Dunn County Agricultural 

 School was classified and briefly described. This included work 

 with soils, plants, animals, buildings, machinery, and other farm 

 equipment. 



Laboratory and Field Work in the Agricultural High School was 

 the subject of a paper by B. H. Crocheron, who called attention to the 

 difficulty of organizing work of this kind owing to the lack of any 

 very definite precedents, and then described in some detail what might 

 be called the community work of the agricultural high school of 

 Baltimore County. This included work with school-teachers, farmers, 

 farmers' wives, and young people not in school. 



The second session of the department was devoted to papers on 

 agriculture in the public-school system. G. F. Warren discussed The 

 Place of Agriculture in the Public High Schools, and in an intro- 

 ductory way showed the economic value of education as indicated by 

 an investigation made in several townships in New York concerning 

 the labor income of all the farmers. In this investigation what- 

 ever might be called income from other sources, such as interest on 

 investments and income from hired labor, w^as eliminated in the com- 

 pilation, which was intended to show merely the income of the farmer 

 from his own labor. The result of the investigation was shown in the 

 following tables: 



Labor income of 573 farmers in New York. 



Attended district school only 



Attended high school or equivalent. 

 Attended college or university 



Number 

 of farmers. 



398 



165 



10 



Average 

 labor 



$318 

 622 



847 



