Sumit.er Meeting. 107 



If the course of experiment and observation here suggested be kept 

 jp during the school days of the children in rural schools, thev will be 

 able to read with interest the reports of work done at the .experiment 

 stations, and will learn to apply what in these reports is valuable for 

 figriculture in their own locality. 



Intelligence will contribute to pleasure and profit in the profession 

 ■of agriculture, and agriculturists will contribute even more largely than 

 heretofore to the ranks of intelligent and enlightened American men 

 and women, 



W. J. Stevens, Chairman. 

 R. B. D. SiMONSON, 



J. C. "Written , 



Committee. 



REPORT OF CHAIRMAX OF COMMITTEE ON HORTI- 

 . CULTURAL EDUCATIOX. 



G. B. Lamm. 



I do not care what name you give this subject, just so it is taught. 

 There is not one dissenting voice to such teachinc,-. Answering; our list 

 of questions some of the best have been sent in by our mothers. Would 

 urge the importance of not making too vast a work of it, but bring it 

 down to simply actual needs. Our children will fairly luxuriate in such 

 work if given the opportunity. One of the most interesting things pos- 

 sible to a parent are children who are taught these things and who can 

 talk intelligently and with sympathy and understanding in these matters. 

 Our Teachers' Association now in session at Sedalia are talkinc; on hor- 

 ticulture and how they can best teach the rudiments. No great high 

 education is needed to teach many simple things alone; this line. Higher 

 study is necessary for more advanced teaching of course. 



Prof. Whitten. — It is w^ell to take up such subjects in order to bring' 

 boys into close relation witli nature. The country is the best place to be 

 educated in, if one is taught right. Nature study brings the mind into 



