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Requirements bob Admission. 



Only persons who have completed a college course and taken a bachelor's 

 degree will be admitted to the privileges of the school, except that admission 

 may be granted to nongraduates who are recommended by the faculties of the 

 college with which they are associated as persons properly qualified to profit 

 by advanced instruction in agriculture. 



Courses of Study. 



Instruction will be given in eight main lines — plant physiology and pathology, 

 agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry, poultry, dairying, rural engineering, 

 and rural economics and sociology. 



The Saturday morning periods and Wednesday and Friday evenings will be 

 devoted to conferences on topics of general interest relating to agricultural 

 education. There will also be social assemblies and visits to prominent agri- 

 cultural establishments. 



A Graduate School of Home Economics under the auspices of a committee 

 of the American Home Economics Association will also be held in Ames during 

 July, 1010. 



Conferences, 



Since extension departments are now being widely organized in the agricul- 

 tural colleges, it is proposed to dev()t(« considerable time at this session of 

 the graduate school to a discussion of the functions and organization of such 

 departments, their relation to the experiment stations and teaching departments, 

 etc. It is believed that this will be of general interest to all members of the 

 school, and therefore two evenings of the second and third weeks of the session 

 and one Saturday forenoon will be devoted to the problems of extension work. 



Leaders in this movement from different parts of the country will be invited 

 to open the discussions. 



General topics, such as agriculture in secondary schools, agricultural jour- 

 nalism, and conservation of our national resources will be presented at evening 

 and Saturday conferences. Excursions to typical Iowa farms will be ar- 

 ranged for. 



Faculty. 



Alfred Charles True, Ph. D., Sc. D., Dean. 

 William H. Pew, B. S. A., Registrar. 



INSTRUCTORS IN PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY. 



Plant phyinnJngii. — E. von Tschermak, Ph. D., professor of plant breeding 

 in the Royal Imperial Agricultural College, Austria ; D. T. Macdougal, Ph. D., 

 director of the department of botanical research, Carnegie Institution; H. J. 

 Webber, M. A., Ph, D., expert in plant breeding, Cornell University; C. E. 

 Bessey, Ph. D., LL. D., head dean and head division of botany. University of 

 Nebraska. 



Plant pathology. — B. F. Smith, Ph. D., pathologist in charge of laboratory of 

 plant pathology, United States Bure«iu of Plant Industry; L. H. Pammel, 

 B. Agr., M. S., Ph. D., professor of botany, Iowa State College; F. L. Stevens. 

 Ph. D., professor of botany and vegetable pathology. North Carolina College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



