380 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 



domestic science, as well as the common school branches. George 

 H. C. Williams, principal of the Montgomery County Agricultural 

 School at Sandy Spring, has been appointed principal of the new 

 normal school. 



Dr. B. M. Davis, professor of agriculture in Miami University, 

 Oxford, Ohio, is contributing a valuable series of articles on ele- 

 mentary and secondary agricultural education in America to the 

 Elementary School Teacher. In these articles the author deals not 

 only with elementary and secondary schools teaching agi-iculture, 

 but also with other agencies engaged in promoting elementary and 

 secondary agricultural education. Among the agencies that have 

 already been considered are the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, the United States Bureau of Education, State departments 

 of education. State legislation, agi-icultural colleges, and State normal 

 schools. It is understood that after the series of articles has been 

 completed the various papers will be assembled and published in 

 book form. 



AGRICULTURE IN THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL AT ATHENS, GA. 



The State of Georgia requires agriculture to be taught in its com- 

 mon schools, and since the State nomial school is concerned in the 

 preparation of teachers for these schools it has for 11 years offered 

 courses in agriculture. ^Miile these courses are of necessity some- 

 what limited and are as yet in a stage of development, they have 

 become of sufficient importance to require the employment of a 

 director of agriculture and one assistant. D. B. Jewell, director of 

 agriculture, has furnished the statements and figures necessary for 

 this description of the work. He writes that the interest thus far 

 shown in the agricultural work and the results obtained offer great 

 encouragement for the continuance and extension of the instruction 

 in agi'iculture. That this interest is not merely ephemeral is shown 

 by the fact that fully one-third of the GO seniors in school who were 

 not required to take the subject remained in the class. 



Several gi'aduates of the school are doing successful work in agri- 

 culture in the rural schools. One graduate is in charge of the boys' 

 corn-club work of the State, and seven others are teachers in the dis- 

 trict agricultural schools of Georgia. The demand in Georgia for 

 teachers of agriculture is greater than the school can supply, and the 

 department of agriculture is hoping to send out each year some good 

 teachers especially prepared for this work. 



Every student who completes one of the prescribed courses in the 

 school is required to take some work in agriculture. For example, 

 the class known as " Review C," which is a half-year class beginning 

 work in September and January, has two periods a week from an 



