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ill the Experiment Station Record, Avhich involved the review of 

 more than 3,000 American and foreiirn publications, and the prepara- 

 tion of the annual orj^anization lists, statistic;^, review of progress in 

 agricultural education, and lists of educational publications and in- 

 stitutions, the service has published special bulletins and circulars 

 concerning secondary agricultural education, boys' and girls' agri- 

 cultural clubs, forestry in nature study, normal school instruction in 

 agriculture, and testing seed corn in school, and has submitted for 

 publication manuscripts dealing with a secondary course in animal 

 production, agricultural instruction in the public high schools of the 

 United States, school exercises in plant production, and school les- 

 sons on corn. 



Studies of American and foreign schools in which agriculture is 

 taught have been continued. The card index relating to the Ameri- 

 can schools now contains over 6,000 cards. The card directory of 

 American teachers and investigators in agriculture has undergone 

 its annual revision and now contains about 2,100 names. In con- 

 nection with the directory, a list of applicants for positions and a list 

 of vacancies in institutions are kept closely up to date. The direc- 

 tory and these lists facilitate greatly the large correspondence of the 

 Office regarding the personnel of the institutions concerned. 



Educational work in cooperation with the Association of Ameri- 

 can Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations has been con- 

 tinued. The Director of this Office has continued to act as JDibliog- 

 rapher of the association, as chairman of its committees on instruc- 

 tion in agriculture and on the history of agricultural education, and 

 as dean of the Graduate School of Agriculture, the fourth session of 

 which was held at Ames, Iowa, during July of this year. The spe- 

 cialist in agricultural education, as secretary of the association com- 

 mittee, has recently submitted for publication a secondary course in 

 animal production^ which was prepared for the committee by Prof. 

 H. R. Smith, of the University of Nebraska. 



The specialist in agricultural education and his assistant have 

 attended many conferences and large educational gatherings and 

 have assisted school officers and teachers in many ways through cor- 

 respondence and personal advice. The Office has also occasionally 

 sent out other members of its staff and specialists from other bureaus 

 to address educational gatherings and to assist agricultural schools 

 along their lines of specialization, and would employ this very 

 effective method more freely if funds for travel were available. 

 Cooperation with other bureaus of the Department has also taken 

 form in the preparation of educational bulletins and circulars. One 

 circular prepared in the Forest Service has been published and a 

 bulletin on rural school consolidation, prepared by a special agent 

 of the Bureau of Statistics, has just recently come from the press. 

 Cooperation along these and other similar lines might well be 

 extended with resulting great benefit to the colleges and schools that 

 are endeavoring to carry in an effective way, to the people living 

 upon the land, the residls of investigation on the part of this Depart- 

 ment and the state agricultural experiment stations. 



Plans for 1911-12. 



During the ensuing fiscal year there will be no material change in 

 the work of the agricultural education service of this Office. The 



