690 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



conditions will permit. The agricultural colleges have been working 

 with larger funds than ever before and many of the State legisla- 

 tures have provided even more liberally for their future activities. 

 The enrollment of four-year college students in agriculture has in- 

 creased, and the number of those taking teacher-training courses in 

 agriculture was eight times as large in 1910 as in the year before. 



New secondary schools of agriculture have been established ; four 

 more States have provided State aid to encourage the establishment 

 of departments of agriculture, home economics, and manual arts in 

 public high schools, making 10 that now give such aid ; several States 

 have increased their a])pr()priations for secondary agricuhural e(hi- 

 cation ; and hundreds of high schools have inaugurated work in agri- 

 culture wdthout any special aid for the purpose. 



Elementary instruction in agriculture has been greatly extended, 

 particularly those phases connected in various ways with boys' and 

 girls' agricultural clubs. In 11 Southern States there were over 

 40,000 members of boys' corn clubs; and if we count members of 

 potato clubs, poultry clubs, swine clubs, garden clubs, domestic science 

 clubs, and other organizations of this character, it is safe to say that 

 250,000 boys and girls were studying the elements of agriculture and 

 giving practical application to their studies. 



In an advisory capacity the agricultural education service of the 

 Office of Experiment Stations is brought into close touch with all 

 phases of this great forward movement in country life education. 

 It has cooperated and conferred with institutions and organizations 

 concerned with the promotion of agricultural education, prepared 

 upon request courses of study for agricultural schools, and rendered 

 expert services in connection with the inauguration of new agricul- 

 tural school projects. This work has been in charge of Mr. D. J. 

 Crosby, specialist in agricultural education; Messrs. F. W. Howe. 

 C. H. Lane, ahd B. B. Hare, assistants in agricultural education; 

 Miss M. T. Spethmann, in charge of statistics and the review of for- 

 eign literature on agricultural education; and Miss M. A. Agnew, 

 in charge of the card directory of teachers and investigators in agri- 

 culture and of the organization lists of agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations. Mr. Howe resigned October 15 to accept a more 

 lucrative position with the New York State Department of Educa- 

 tion and was succeeded April 16 by Mr. Lane. Mr. Hare was ap- 

 pointed assistant in agricultural education and rural economics 

 March 23, but thus far has devoted much more of his time to agricul- 

 tural economics than to agricultural education. 



In connection with the editorial work of the department of agri- 

 cultural education in the Experiment Station Record, more than 

 1,700 foreign and about an equal number of American publications 

 have been reviewed. In addition to the annual organization lists, 

 statistics of agricultural colleges and experiment stations, review of 

 progress in agricultural education, and lists of educational publica- 

 tions and institutions, there have been prepared and published spe- 

 cial bulletins, circulars, and reprints concerning school exercises in 

 plant production, school lessons on corn, agriculture as first-year 

 science, and community work in the rural high school, and an article 

 dealing with county schools of agriculture and domestic economy in 

 Wisconsin has been submitted for publication. In cooperation with 



