PKOGRESS IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 357 



As a result of the marked success of its correspondence course for 

 teachers, instituted last year, the University of Florida has extended 

 these courses to farmers and their families and others who may be 

 interested. The new courses ran from November 1 to June 1, 1910. 

 The subjects covered included elementary agriculture, soils, tillage, 

 drainage and irrigation, manures and fertilizers, field crops, typas 

 and breeds of live stock, dairy husbandry, animal breeding, feeds and 

 feeding, and citrus fruits and citrus culture. There is no age limit 

 or entrance examination in these courses, and the only expense 

 incurred is for postage and the textbook. There were about 500 

 students in the correspondence courses, including 200 in the teachers' 

 courses. 



xVn assistant in charge of school extension was appointed in the 

 Georgia State College of Agriculture. Extension schools for teachers 

 were held at several points in the State in cooperation with the county 

 school commissioners. The staff of the extension department took 

 charge of these institutions and organized work along lines which 

 would enable the teachers to acquire the information necessary to 

 introduce instruction in agriculture into the common schools. 



E. L. Holton, a graduate student at Teachers' College, Columbia 

 University, was appointed professor of industrial education for the 

 extension department to have charge of the introduction of agricul- 

 ture, shopwork, and home economics into the public-school system of 

 the State and supervise the corn contests, boys' corn clubs, and the 

 new correspondence courses. 



The Legislature of Michigan authorized the Michigan Agricultural 

 College to grant three-year State teachers' certificates to such of its 

 graduates as have completed the regular four-year course in agricul- 

 ture, together with a course in pedagogics covering at least one-half 

 year of special instruction in that subject. The college has announced 

 a one-year professional course for agricultural teachers, open to gradu- 

 ates of State normal schools in the life-certificate courses and to other 

 graduates of reputable colleges who have had two or more years of 

 experience in teaching. The new course requires the election of at 

 least 75 units of the technical subjects offered in the regular four-year 

 agricultural course. Candidates may thereafter, if they desire, secure 

 the regular bachelor's degree in agriculture by completing the remain- 

 ing subjects in the agricultural course. It is expected that this teach- 

 ers' course will attract the attendance of a considerable number of 

 students who need only technical information to become good teachers 

 of agriculture. The legislature also empowered the governor to ap- 

 point a commission of not less than five nor more than seven members 

 to make a careful study of the conditions of elementary, industrial, 

 and agricultural education in the State and to present a report set- 

 ting forth these conditions and making recommendations for a plan 



