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service and am very glad that it has been transferred from the Depart- 

 ment of Education to the Department of Extension. 



8. Visitation anil Supervision of Schools. The work of introducing 

 agriculture into tlie public schools of the State was assumed by the 

 Agricultural College, and made the chief work of the Department of 

 Agricultural Education. This implied the development of proper courses 

 of study, consultation with Superintendents of Schools and Boards of 

 Education, visitation of the schools after they Avere organized, and the 

 making of suitable suggestions concerning increasing the efficiency of 

 the work. All of this is a voluntary service for the public schools on our 

 part as we have no legal supervisory authority. 



I am pleased to report that in all cases we have been met courteously 

 and cordially by those in charge of the public schools, and so far as I 

 can observe our suggestions have been welcomed. 



. In assuming such a responsibility we become responsible for keeping 

 the standard of agricultural teaching on at least as high a plane as that 

 already maintained by years of development in other subjects. I have 

 taken charge, personally, of the work connected with introducing the 

 courses and advising Boards of Education with regard to the employ- 

 ment of teachers, and I have visited and observed the work of as many 

 schools as possible in connection with the regular work of teaching, 

 which I am required to do in the College. My assistant, Mr. Grover, 

 has had charge of the larger part of the visitation and observation work, 

 and he has become a very efficient man. We have had 48 schools directly 

 under our supervision during the past year, and for the coming year 

 there will be about 60. 



I am pleased to report that in all cases the work has been satisfactorily 

 performed. Some of our instructors have become so valuable that they 

 have been taken from us and employed as County Agents, or have been 

 called as instructors in higher institutions of learning. I think we may 

 have considerable pride in our graduates who are maintaining such a 

 fine standard of work and instruction. 



9. Assistant in Agricultural Eclncation. Mr. E. Lynn Grover, who 

 has been the Assistant in Agricultural Education for the past year, has 

 been untiring in his efforts to supervise and improve the school work. 

 In addition to this he has been used by the Extension department as an 

 instructor in Farmers' Schools for several weeks, and he has been called 

 upon to give addresses before farmers' and teachers' organizations in 

 many parts of the State. I submit the following brief summary of his 

 labors, showing the range of his work and also the distance it has been 

 necessary to travel in accomplishing these results — 



Miles travelled to inspect School Gardens 650 



Miles travelled to act as judge at School Fairs.... 400 



Miles travelled to talk on Agricultural Education.. 600 



Miles travelled to visit and inspect High Schools . . . 9,825 



Total mileage 11,475 



Mr. Grover is an efficient speaker and has been particularly success- 

 ful in his work in the One and Two- Week Schools for farmers. 



In concluding this report I may say, as to the number of high schools 



