358 EEPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



of elementary, industrial, and agricultural training in the public 

 schools. 



In Missouri K. H. Emberson was appointed professor of rural 

 education to act as the representative of the college of agriculture in 

 such matters, serving as superintendent of extension work for the 

 rural schools, in cooperation with the State superintendent, the State 

 normal schools, and the various county superintendents. Through 

 this agency the college is endeavoring to suggest textbooks, bulletins, 

 circulars, apparatus, and reports which will serve to acquaint each 

 school with progress throughout the State. It plans to have this 

 kind of extension Avork explained in all the teachers' institutes, with 

 a view to having it begim soon in at least six or eight schools in each 

 county. 



The department of industrial pedagogj', authorized by the board 

 of regents of the Oregon Agricultural College in January, 1908, but 

 held in abeyance through lack of funds, was given concrete form in 

 August, 1909, when E. D. Eessler, for seven years president of the 

 Oregon State Normal School, was appointed professor in charge. 

 The first semester was devoted to instruction in the county institutes 

 and to the general promotion of industrial education in the State. 

 Classes were organized in the second semester in the pedagogy of 

 elementary agriculture, domestic science and art, and the mechanic 

 arts. A summer school of seven weeks for the benefit of public 

 school teachers who desire opportunity to fit themselves to teach the 

 industrial subjects was inaugurated June 20, 1910. 



A department of agricultural education was established at Penn- 

 sylvania State College to assist in the work of introducing agricul- 

 ture into the public schools and to take charge of the correspondence 

 courses in the college. In this connection a beginning has been made 

 in outlining reading courses and corresjDondence courses for teachers. 

 T. I. Mairs, who has had charge of the correspondence courses for 

 several years, is at the head of the new department. 



COLLEGE EXTENSION AND SHORT COURSES. 



Agricultural extension teaching is undoubtedly one of the most 

 rapidly developing features of college work. In 1905 there were 4 

 departments of agi'icultural extension in colleges; in 1910 the num- 

 ber had reached 27. The appropriations for this work are becoming 

 more and more liberal, though still inadequate. In Iowa the amount 

 given was $32,000; in Kansas, $26,000; in Minnesota, $25,000; in New 

 York, $50,000; in Ohio, $20,000 (increased to $50,000 for 1911) ; and 

 in Wisconsin, $30,000, with $20,000 more for farmers' institutes. 



Extension work has included a great variety of enterprises. There 

 have been movable schools ; work with public school teachers, as indi- 



