234 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The report of the bibhographer, Dr. A. C. True, consisted of a hst 

 of books written by agricultural college and experiment station 

 officers. The list included 385 titles of books, the work of 195 men 

 and women now or at one time connected with agricultural colleges 

 and experiment stations. Books on practically all phases of agri- 

 culture and allied gciences were represented in the list, showing the 

 large and creditable contributions of the colleges and stations of 

 this country to the literature of scientific agriculture in its more 

 finished and permanent form. 



The committee on instruction in agriculture presented a short 

 report through its chairman. Dr. A. C. True. A series of illustra- 

 tive exercises, covering the general principles of the subject of agron- 

 omy, is being published by the Office of Experiment Stations, and 

 will be followed by similar publications covering other branches of 

 agriculture. 



The committee has organized subcommittees on secondary courses, 

 on courses in home economics, and on courses in rural engineering. 

 The subcommittee on secondary courses has in preparation a syllabus 

 of a course for use in the regular public high schools, and a series 

 of lessons and practicums showing more fully the character and scope 

 of this course, which it is expected will be published through the 

 Office of Experiment Stations. The subcommittees on courses in 

 rural engineering and on home economics have been engaged in 

 studying the existing status of such courses in the land-grant colleges 

 as a preliminary. 



Tlie report of this committee was followed by a length}^ discussion 

 in which the interest of the association in this work was brought 

 out, and its desire for the earl}^ publication of the results of the 

 committee's studies for use in connection with various grades of 

 agricultural instruction was expressed. 



The report of the committee on graduate study was presented by 

 Director L. II. Bailey (see Graduate Scliool of Agriculture, p. 236). 



The report of the committee on extension work was presented by 

 President K. L. Butterfield. This report defined extension teaching 

 in agricuhurej and grouped the various forms of extension work 

 under six heads. The main part of the report consisted of a sum- 

 mary of the present status of agricultural extension teaching in this 

 countr}^, on the basis of a circular letter which was widely sent out. 

 The committee recommended that each colU^ge establish as soon as 

 practicable a department of extension teaching in agriculture, coordi- 

 nate with other divisions of the agricultural work and in charge 

 of a competent director, and that pending such action a faculty 

 committee be maintained to study the problem. 



A more extendcHl account of tJie work of tliis conniiiltee is given 

 in the report of the Farmers' Institute Specialist of this Office (p. 314), 



