PROGEESS IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 365 



The fourth annual conference of the Official Dairy Instructors' 

 Association was attended by about 40 members, representing all 

 parts of the country. The committee on dairy score cards reported 

 that the card adopted by the association at its last meeting is now 

 in actual use in 128 cities, and that 110 others have the card under 

 consideration. Reports were also given by tlie standing committees 

 on official testing of dairy cows, relations to the National Dairy Show, 

 courses of instruction, experimental work in milk production and 

 dairy manufactures, standards for dairy products, official methods 

 of testing dairy products, extension work, judging dairy cattle, and 

 cow-test associations. 



The intercollegiate students' judging contest of dairy cattle was 

 under the supervision of B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy division of 

 this department, and was participated in by teams from seven institu- 

 tions. The $300 sweepstakes trophy and the trophy for highest indi- 

 vidual score were won by students from the University of Nebraska, 

 followed in order by the teams from Cornell, the universities of Mis- 

 souri and Minnesota, the Iowa and Pennsylvania colleges, and the 

 Ohio State University. The breed trophies were awarded to the 

 Ohio State University team for Ayrshires, to that of Missouri for 

 Dutch Belted cattle, to Minnesota for Guernseys, to Nebraska for 

 Holsteins, and to Cornell for Jerseys. 



THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS. 



At the close of the fiscal year 1910 there were over 630 secondary 

 schools teaching agriculture. These included 58 agricultural schools 

 and 28 public high schools receiving State aid for agriculture, 432 

 unaided public and private high schools and academies, 46 secondary 

 schools for negroes, several colleges and schools on private founda- 

 tions, and correspondence schools, but not the normal schools. Agri- 

 cultural schools were started in connection with a number of the 

 agricultural colleges. State aid for agriculture in public high schools 

 was inaugurated or increased in several instances, and extension 

 work and short courses were successfully conducted by a number of 

 the high schools. 



That agriculture is coming to be recognized as a subject worthy of 

 credit in college and university entrance requirements is indicated in 

 the committee report of the National Education i\.ssociation, to which 

 reference is made on page 343. The strange thing about this report 

 is that so few of the agricultural colleges, relatively, give entrance 

 credit for high-school agriculture. 



