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WORK OF THE COMMITTEE ON METHODS OF TEACHING 



AGRICULTURE. 



Tho first report of the committee on methods of teachino- ao-ricul- 

 ture" pointed out that '* one g-reat o])sta('le to the intelligent discussion 

 of the scheme of agricultural instruction and the methods of agricul- 

 tural teaching is the lack of a definite nomenclature of the suljject,*" 

 and suo'o'ested "'for the consideration of tho association a tentative 

 scheme for the division of what is commonly designated agriculture 

 in courses of study into several distinct l)ranches or subdivisions, and 

 for o-ivinti" each of these branches a detinite name, a.s follows: 



1. Agronomy, or agriculture j Climate, soils, fertilizeiv, ami crops — 

 (teclinical 1. I plant pnidnction. 



2. Zooterhny, or aTiimal In- J Animal i)hysiology and animal proiluc- 



?>. Agrotechny, 



dustry. 



or agricul- 

 tural technology. 

 Agriculture ^ Um-al engineering, farm 

 mechanics, or farm 

 equipment. 

 Rural economy i>r farm 

 management. 



tion. 

 Agricultural industries, e. g., <lairying, 

 sugar making. 



Uoails, drains, irrigation systems, farm 

 huildings, etc. 



* ieneral i)olicy of farm management, 

 rural law,' agricultural l)ookkeeping, 

 etc. 



In its second report '' the committee tirst undertook "to determine 

 the general relation of a course in technical agriculture to the other 

 courses of study v.hich should be connected with this to form a four- 

 year course in an agricultural college/' adopting as a working t)asis 

 the following portion of the report of the committee on entrance 

 requirements, courses of study, and degrees:'' 



In the judgment of your committee, it is not too mncii to require the equivalent 

 of fifteen hours per week of recitations and lectures, together with ten hours per 

 week of laboratory work, or practicums, including the time devoted to military 

 science and drill. Upon this l)asis the above-mentioned general studies should be 

 assigned a relative importance, ai)proximately as follows: 



Algel )ra • 



Geometry 



Trigonometrjf 



Physics (class-room work) . 



Physics (laboratf )ry work ) 



Chemistry (clas.s-room work) 



Chemistry (laboratory work) 



English 200 



Uimrs. 

 75 

 40 

 40 

 75 

 75 

 75 

 75 



Hoursi. 



Modern languages ."40 



Psychology 



p]thics or logic 



Political economy 

 Cleneral history .. 

 ("onstitutional law 



00 

 40 

 60 

 80 

 50 



Total 1,285 



"Report presented to the As.sociation of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations at the convention held in Washington, D. C, Novemlier 10-12, 

 189<i. See U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Bui. 41, p. 57, and 

 Circ. :]2. 



''SeeU. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations P.ul. 4it, p. 2i», and Circ. .".7. 



'"SeeU. S. Dept. Agr., Otfice of Experiment Stations I'.ul. 41. ]). 52. 



