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ent, ''The value of this work in the high school is not fully appreciated. 

 Just think of it, my son who will graduate next year will have a 

 broader and better knowledge of the science of agriculture, than I have 

 after thirty-five years of actual experience." This it seems to me is 

 a fine testimonial. 



The subjects taught in the high schools include agricultural botany, 

 farm crops, horticulture, live stock and dairying, soil physics, breed- 

 ing and feeding of live stock, farm management and farm mechanics. 



2. Visitations. — During the year T have visited the ten high schools 

 T)resenting agricultural subjects several times and have insoected care- 

 fulb,- the conditions, laboratory facilities, practical work outside the school 

 i-oom and have kept in close touch with the work being done. In addi- 

 tion to this I have visited twenty-five high schools in regard to the 

 establishment of courses in agriculture and several of these will intro- 

 duce the course in 1012. I have also visited twenty schools with refer- 

 ence to their being placed upon our accredited list. 



3. Extension Lectures. — During the winter months we conducted, 

 in connection with each of. the high schools, a series of schools or lec- 

 iures for the fanners of the surrounding community. These schools 

 were usually held on Saturday afternoon and were well attended. The 

 instructor in agriculture had charge of the work and led at least half 

 of the meetings and discussions; for the other half we provided mem- 

 bei-s of the faculty of the college. In each case Ave consulted the farm- 

 ers as to the line of work they desired to have presented. The sub- 

 jects discussed included live stock improvement, soil fertility, gi'ape 



• culture, sheen husbandry, poultry, feeding, dairying, fertilizers, farm 

 cro])S, and entomology. 



4. Institutes. — I have given considerable time to farmers and teach- 

 ers institules. At the teachers institutes I have presented the means 

 and methods of teaching elementary agriculture in the grades and in 

 the rural schools. T also prepared and published a pamphlet for teach- 

 ers on the subject of Rural Sociology and Elementary Agriculture. 

 The institute I believe to be of great value and it is my opinion that the 

 college should give more attention to the teachers in the public schools 

 tlian has been "done in the past. It offers a wide field for interesting 

 the people in the college and in high schools. I have also assisted in 

 the organization of the Association for Agricultural Education. The 

 purpQse of this organization is to promote the interest of agricultural 

 education particularly in the secondary schools. Prof. K. L. Hatch of 

 Wisconsin University is President and I have the honor at present to 

 be Secretary of the organization. The first meeting was held in Chicago, 

 April 10, 1911, and the next meeting will be held at the time of the 

 National Association of Agricultural Colleges. During the year I have 

 assisted in an investigation of rural, agricultural, and industrial educa- 

 tion, in connection with the State Commission for that purpose. The 

 report of this commission was submitted to the governor and to the 

 last legislature in January, 1011. 



5. Teachers. — The registration and location of teachers occupies a 

 large amount of time and correspondence during the spring term. I 

 have succeeded in locating ten men as teachers and up to the present 

 time have located ten women, most of whom teach domestic science or 

 art in the public schools of this state. I find that our women students 



