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eluding colleges for whites in Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, 

 Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Da- 

 kota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Ehode Island, Vermont, Washington, West 

 Virginia, and Wisconsin, and schools for negroes in Alabama, Mary- 

 land, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas. Three-year courses were 

 offered by the Arkansas, Florida, and North Dakota agricultural 

 colleges, and by the schools for negroes in Georgia. Louisiana, and 

 Virginia. The agricultural colleges for whites in Idaho, Minnesota, 

 Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, and Texas, and for negroes 

 in Florida, Mississippi, and Oklahoma give two-year courses, and 

 the colleges for whites in Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, North Caro- 

 lina, and West Virginia, and for negroes in North Carolina offer one- 

 year courses for teachers of agriculture. The Alabama Agricultural 

 College offers 15 electives intended especially for teachers. 

 ' Tw^enty-nine of the colleges provide summer schools of agriculture 

 for teachers,^ five (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Utah) cooperate with other agencies, and seven (Florida, 

 both white and negi-o schools, Kansas, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, 

 Pennsylvania, and South Dakota) conduct correspondence courses 

 for teachers. Two courses in agricultural education were conducted 

 during the summer quarter of the University of Chicago. 



Quite a number of the agricultural colleges established departments 

 of agricultural education or appointed professors of agricultural 

 education. In Alabama L, N, Duncan was transferred from the 

 assistant professorship of agriculture to the professorship of agri- 

 cultural school work. 



In California a division of agricultural education was organized, 

 in which Leroy Anderson, professor of dairying and superintendent 

 of the university farm schools, was given direct charge of secondary 

 instruction in agriculture, and E. B. Babcock was appointed assistant 

 professor of agricultural education to aid in the secondary instruc- 

 tion and have direct charge of elementary instruction in agriculture, 

 the introduction of garden work, and the organization of agricultural 

 clubs. Four new courses are offered for regular and special students 

 in the university on teaching agriculture in high schools, teaching 

 agriculture and nature study in the elementally schools, gardening 

 for prospective teachers, and a special course for students who are 

 preparing to teach the sciences and desire to obtain some preparation 

 in horticulture and agriculture, 



Delaware college gave some attention to preparing teachers for the 

 teaching of agricultural subjects in the schools of the State, 



1 Summer schools for teachers are held at the colleges in California, Connecticut, 

 Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mis- 

 souri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina (both white and negro schools). North 

 Dakota. Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, 

 Vermont, Virginia (colored), Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. 



