INSTKUCTIOX IN AGRONOMY AT SOME AGRICUL- 

 TURAL COLLEGES. 



PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THIS BULLETIN. 



This bulletin is based on the reports of the committee on methods 

 of teaching agriculture of the Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations and on further inquiries made by 

 the Ofhce of Experiment Stations. It is intended to supplement the 

 woi-k of the committee in collating detailed information regarding 

 instruction in aofronomv. The status of that work at the time the 

 committee made its sixth report" is indicated by the following para- 

 graph from that report : 



After consultation with the instructors in agriculture in the different colleges, it 

 has seemed well for yf)ur committee to undertake to i)resent in some detail informa- 

 tion regarding the courses in agriculture and the facilities for instruction in tliis 

 subject in our colleges. It is especially desirable to put on record data regarding 

 distinctive features of these courses and the materials for demonstration and illustra- 

 tion already existing in different institutions. Your committee has, therefore, 

 undertaken during the present year to collate such information regarding the course 

 in agronomy. Considerable material has already been accumulated, but some time 

 must elai)se before it will be in form for publication. Your committee therefore 

 asks that it may be granted leave to jirint its I'ejiort on agronomy in our agricultural 

 colleges, in whole or in part, in the next proceedings of this association, and be given 

 authority to negotiate with the Office of Experiment Stations for the separate pub- 

 lication of its detailed report on this subject. 



Authority to pu})iish its detailed report in accordance with the 

 above request was granted the committee, which, however, was not 

 able to prepare the material in time for printing in the proceedings 

 of the association. This Office undertook, therefore, to complete the 

 report and publisli it. 



Subsequent inquiries on the part of the Office of Experiment Stations 

 by correspondence, 1)y members of the Office force making visits of 

 inspection to the agricidtural experiment stations, and ])y a special 

 officer sent to visit a number of the colleges, showed that while many 



« Presented at the convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations in Washington, D. C, November 12-14, 1901. 



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