66 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPOKT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL 



EDUCATION. 



To the President. 



Sir — I herewith siibiiiit a brief report of the worlc of the Department 

 of Agricultural Education during the year ending June 30, 1916. 



I. TEACHING. 



During the summer school of 191 G, I had charge of two double period 

 classes, one in elementary rural education and the other in agricultural 

 pedagogy. 



During the school j^ear I have given courses in pedagogics for both 

 men and women. The coilrses given to the women are known as Pedagogy 

 I, II and III. The number of women taking these courses has averaged 

 fifty-five during the year. The courses given to the men are known as 

 Pedagogy IV, V and VI. In the fall term I had 145 students in these 

 subjects and in the winter term 117 and in the spring term 118. There 

 were two sections for the men, with about an equal number in each 

 section. In connection with the class room instruction the young women 

 are required to observe instruction in domestic science and art in 

 the public schools, and for this purpose they visited the leading schools 

 within a reasonable distance of Lansing, teaching these subjects. The 

 women are also required to have practical exercises in school sanitation, 

 schoolhouse construction and arrangement, particularly with reference 

 to the laboratory for domestic science and art, also school room decora- 

 tion and extension service in home economics in the public schools. 

 The men are required to observe instruction in agriculture in high 

 schools where agriculture is taught and to submit written reports upon 

 their visit concerning the science work and agricultural work, with a 

 description of laboratories, laboratory equipment and the organization of 

 field work for high school students. 



II. HIGH SCHOOLS. 



During the year four year courses in agriculture have been given in 

 fifty-seven high schools. The instructors in all these schools are gradu- 

 ates of this institution or of other agricultural colleges. In addition 

 to these schools there are about twenty other high schools giving some 

 agricultural instruction, the instructors being men who have had short 

 courses in college or agriculture in a normal school. All these high 

 schools have been inspected by Mr. drover, of this department, and by 

 myself. During the spring of 1917, I have organized ten new high schools 

 for courses in agriculture as follows : — Albion, Flint, Gladwin, Highland 

 Park, Ionia, Lowell, Manistique, Portland, Sandusky and Three Rivers. 

 Unless some of the teachers of agriculture are drafted into the army 

 we shall have sixty-seven high schools teaching agriculture and the in- 

 struction given by agricultural college graduates, for the ensuing year. 

 The same standards of work and equipment as were established last 



