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lishment of new schools, and the equipment and management of 

 existing schools. This work has continued to be in charge of Mr. 

 D. J. Crosby, specialist in agricultural education, who has been as- 

 sisted by Messrs. C. II. Lane and B. B. Hare, assistants in agricul- 

 tural education; Miss M. T. Spethmann, in charge of foreign litera- 

 ture on agricultural education and the card catalogues of American 

 and foreign agricultural schools; and Miss M. A. Agnew, in charge 

 of the card directory of teachers and investigators in agriculture, 

 the organization lists of the agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations, and the official mailing list. 



The editorial work of the department of agricultural education 

 in the Experiment Station Record involved the reviewing of 2,300 

 foreign publications and about 1,500 American publications. The 

 regular publications relating to the statistics and organization of the 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations, lists of educational 

 publications and institutions, and the annual review of progress in 

 agricultural education were issued. In addition to these a bulletin 

 describing the county schools of agriculture and home economics in 

 Wisconsin, a circular containing a report on college courses in rural 

 economics and farm management, a Farmers' Bulletin on Forestry in 

 Nature Study (in cooperation with the Forest Service), and a Year- 

 book article on Community Work in the Rural High School were 

 prepared and published. Other publications relating to agricultural 

 schools in Arkansjis, types of children's garden work, and a working 

 erosion model for schools prepared in the Forest Service were sub- 

 mitted for publication. 



Considerable time was given to the study of American agricultural 

 schools and methods of instruction in agriculture. On invitation 

 from State school officers,^ the specialist in agricultural education 

 and one of his assistants studied schools and methods of elementary 

 and secondary instruction in agriculture in California and Oregon, at- 

 tended and addressed several conferences of education in those States, 

 and helped to map out plans for the future development of agricul- 

 tural education in their schools. Also on invitation, an assistant in 

 agricultural education visited and studied all of the agricultural 

 schools in Georgia and is preparing a report on them. In coopera- 

 tion with the Forest Service, short courses in woodlot management 

 were conducted experimentally at the Agricultural High School of 

 Baltimore County, the Manassas Agricultural High School, and the 

 public high schools at Sandy Spring and Brookville, Md., with a 

 view to working out carefully some of the problems of conducting 

 such courses and then publishing the results for the benefit of other 

 similar schools. In cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 the office detailed Miss Susan B. Sipe, science teacher in Normal 

 School No. 1 of the District of Columbia, to make a study of types 

 of children's garden work in several large cities and in State edu- 

 cational institutions from Pittsburgh to the Pacific coast, and her 

 report has been submitted for jjiiblication. 



The card index of foreign >chools and literature now contains over 

 9.000 cards, that of American schools and literature over 11,000 cards, 

 and that of American teachers and investigators in agriculture about 

 2,000 names. In addition to these there is a card directory of about 

 2,500 American teachers in secondary and elementary schools, mainly 



