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RURAL ECONOMY 



G. N. Lauman, Professor of Rural Economy 



The results of the study of the cooperative efforts in the Chautauqua- 

 Erie Grape Belt, made by the Department of Rural Economy, are now 

 in manuscript and receiving the final touches, such as the information 

 about the 19 17 crop.. 



With each succeeding year the Department's quarters become more 

 and more congested, and the use of its facilities is being seriously abridged 

 by the storage of current material in out-of-the-way places. The Depart- 

 ment can no longer accommodate its graduate students, and the congestion 

 is a real detriment to its work. 



RURAL EDUCATION 



G. A. Works, Professor of Rural Education 



Teaching. — Funds made available by the passage of the Smith-Hughes 

 Act, together with those from state sources, have made it possible to make 

 needed additions to the instructional staff in the Department of Rural 

 Education. Assistant Professor Paul J. Kruse, formerly of the University 

 of Washington, has taken charge of the work in educational psychology; 

 Professor William F. Lusk, from the University of Minnesota, has taken 

 charge of the special methods work in agriculture ; and Assistant Professor 

 RoUand M. Stewart, of the University of Iowa, was selected for the work 

 in principles of teaching. These additions, together with the establish- 

 ment of the demonstration school of agriculture at Trumansburg, have 

 made it possible to strengthen the teaching work of the Department 

 very materially. The decline in student registration has made it impossible 

 for the Department to obtain enough men for the positions available in 

 departments of vocational agriculture. 



Extension. — The following figures show the distribution of the Cornell 

 Rural School Leaflet for 19 17-18: 



Persons receiving the leaflets: 



Rural teachers 15,117 



City and village teachers 12,124 



Training class pupils 721 



Training school and normal school pupils .' i , 406 



Pupils in rural schools 155 ,889 



Permanent list i , 106 



Junior Home Project workers, approximately 5 , 000 



Total 191 ,363 



