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of the apparatus and materials needed in connection with the exercises out- 

 lined, and a list of these and their i)rol)aI)le cost should he published. 



Considerable pro.i^rcss has been made durin.i; the past year in i;ettinfj together 

 material for a repnrt on this subject such as your committee desires to present, 

 but some time nuist necessarily elapse before it will be in form for i)ublication. 

 Your committee therefore proposes to negotiate with the Office of Experiment 

 Stations to prepare such a reiiort as has been suggested herewith and p-.iblish 

 it for general distributi(ai throughout the TTnited States. 



The committee proi)oses to continue its work during the next year in two 

 lines: (1) A study of courses in agriculture for agricultural high schools and 

 other secondary schools, and (2) the more detailed formulation and discussion 

 of college courses in animal husbandry to supplement the general outline of 

 courses in this subject already published. 



A. C. True, 

 T. F. Hunt, 

 H. T. French, 

 H. H. Wing. 



J. F. DUGGAR. 



Com in litre. 



H. T. French, of Idaho. Before this report is finally disposed of I would 

 like to call upon Doctor True to give us some further statement as to the work 

 of the Office of Exi)eriment Stations in connection with this report and the 

 former reports that have been made. 



A. C. True. The Office of Experiment Stations, as you all know, was estab- 

 lished primarily to aid the experiment stations in various ways, and has natur- 

 ally become a sort of clearing house for the experiment-station movement in 

 this country. The fact that these stations were departments of the agricultural 

 colleges, and that the work of the stations themselves was very intimately con- 

 nected with the development of the courses of instruction in the agricultural 

 colleges, naturally led the Office to take up, at the request of individuals and 

 institutions, work relating more directly to agricultural education ; and with 

 the progress of the movement for agricultural education in a broader way. the 

 Office has naturally broadened its work. This has been especially true since 

 the formation by this association of the committee on methods of teaching 

 agriculture, the director of that Office having been made a member of that 

 committee. 



This work has gone on until we have been drawn into connection with the 

 general movement for agricultural education in such a way that the demands 

 on us for work in different lines are so large that under present conditions the 

 matter is somewhat of an embarrassment because we are not able to meet those 

 demands. Through the action of this association and the work of the com- 

 mittee on methods of teaching, as well as the work that has been done in con- 

 nection with the expositions, particularly the St. Louis Exposition, the Office 

 has now a considerable number of publications on agricultural education, and it 

 has become recognized in the country to a very considerable extent as an 

 agency for the promotion of agricultural education. The result is that not 

 only are the institutions represented in this association making appeals to. us 

 to aid in this direction, but we are getting ai)i>eals in the same way from other 

 organizations, from the State and county suiierintendents of education, and a 

 large numl)er of teachers. ;is well as from organizations which represent the 

 interest of the agricultural people in this matter. Now, if this work is to go 

 on effectively, I think that we must have the cooperation of this association 

 with reference to its development. At present the work is done as an incidental 

 matter. There is no provision in the law expressly for such work, i>or have we 

 any organization for the work beyond the employment of one oHicer who gives 

 a part of his time to the work, and rei)resents it in the Office. I refer now to 



