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year have been required for this year, and these standards constitute the 

 basis for recognition of the agricultural work for entrance credit at the 

 University and other educational institutions. 



During the year w*e have developed the practical side of the agri- 

 cultural instruction by organizing a high school agricultural association 

 in each high school where agriculture is taught. The members of this 

 association agree to work out practical farm projects during the summer 

 season and make a report upon same to this department, as well as to 

 their schools. The supervision of this project work has been placed in 

 charge of Mr. E. Lynn Grover, Assistant Professor of this department. 



III. EXTENSION SERVICE. 



I have conducted five teachers' institutes during the year and have 

 given" a number of addresses at farmers' meetings in different parts 

 of the state. I have also cooperated with the Department of Public 

 Instruction in the matter of re-organizing the rural schools. We have 

 given especial attention to the matter of organizing township districts 

 and township high schools. We have had frequent meetings with groups 

 of County Commissioners of schools, and during the Farmers' Week at 

 the College Ave invited nil the Commissioners of the state to attend the 

 special rural educational convention at the College. The piroceedings 

 of this convention proved to be so pleasing that the Commissioners 

 requested another meeting of the same type to be held during the en- 

 suing year. 



IV. PUBLICATIONS. 



During the year we have published two pamphlets: First, bulletin 

 Ko. 16, which is a report to the College and to the state on instruction in 

 agriculture in secondary schools. Second, bulletin No. 17, which is an 

 outline of the plan for organizing the high schools for home project work. 

 The bulletin contains a full description of this work, with suggested 

 credits to be given by the schools for such field work. 



V. TEACHERS. 



Not all the young men, who take the courses in pedagogics intend to 

 teach, only about 40% of the young men from the agricultural courses 

 were prepared for teaching. The war conditions have interfered ma- 

 terially this year by taking a large number of men in the agricultural 

 course for special farm work and for military service, thus reducing the 

 possible number of men open to employment as teachers of agriculture. 



We have a regular system of registration for those who intend to 

 teach and we keep in constant touch with the work of the public schools 

 and render such service to superintendents of schools and Boards of 

 Education as they may desire in the matter of securing teachers for 

 special subjects in domestic science and art and agriculture. We have 

 been able also to locate a number of our men as teachers of manual 

 training and teachers of science. Up to this time this year, we have 

 located nineteen men as teachers of agriculture and twenty women as 

 teachers of domestic science and art. Thus far we have been able to 

 supply all the calls for such special teachers that came to us. About 

 half of the schools of the state, which teach domestic science have em- 



