No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. S9B 



number of already well-trained teachers and give tliem the necessary 

 subject matter or put them in the way of getting it in six weeks. To 

 show them the method of teaching this syllabus by actually per- 

 forming every demonstration lecture, every laboratory exercise 

 and taking many field excursions which these teachers would repeat 

 during the year in the high school. A set of laboratory apparatus 

 and the materials necessary for the successful presentation of this 

 subject could be prepared at this summer school and each teacher 

 supplied with an outfit. This is an entirely different matter from 

 teaching boys and girls who have studied agriculture or Latin or 

 physics to teach one or more of these subjects successfully. 



in the second place, this plan does not contemplate any change 

 in our present agencies for education which in any State system of 

 education must be considered. All the various universities, colleges 

 and high schools will continue to educate the youth of the State. 

 Normal schools and summer schools of the usual sort will continue 

 to train teachers to teach. The sectarian colleges will lose none of 

 their influence by this new education, since they will continue to 

 educate the young men and young women as far as their facilities 

 will allow. 



In the third place, this plan of instruction is so simple that no new 

 agencies are needed, and so far as I know, no new laws need be 

 enacted. The only thing that is necessary is that there should be a 

 real, sincere, demand by the people for this education. 



There were in 1900 about 225,000 farmers in Pennsylvania. If 

 we assume that the business life of each farmer does not exceed, 

 on the average, over a third of a century (the average is really prob- 

 ably much less), then it follows that 7,000 persons begin farming 

 each year, who never farmed independently before. Do the mem- 

 bers of the State Board of Agriculture believe that the State pos- 

 sesses any responsibility for this body of men (who annually begin 

 to create' wealth from the soil) while they are between the age of 

 14 and the age of citizenship, the most important period in the de- 

 velopment of every boy. Do you believe that the prosperity of this 

 Commonwealth would be enhanced by teachins: them during this 

 formation period something of that large body of knowledge relating 

 to their calling that is now available? If you do, you possess both a 

 duty and a privilege. It is to create a demand in communities 

 where now no demand exists and to make effective that demand 

 where or when it does exist. 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S REPORT, NO. 2. 



Br Prof. Franklin Mt;nges, York Pa. 



Mr. Cliairraan, I have only an informal report to make, one. I 

 should say, that is mainly suggestive. In connection with a few 

 others, I have tried to find something that would be of value to the 



