254 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



judging and domestic science, held under the management of the 

 Yoimg Men's Christian Association of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 

 December 17-22. 



Departments of education have been established during the jeAT 

 at the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College , and at the TTniversitv of Maine. The Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College -also has an appropriation of S5,()00 for normal work 

 and is planning to promote agricultural instruction in the elementary 

 grades. Departments of education, in which attention is given to 

 training teachers of agriculture are now maintained in connection 

 with the University of Illinois, University of Missouri, and the Wash- 

 ington State College. There are also departments of education in 

 connection with the State universities in California, Georgia, Mimie- 

 sota, Nebraska, Teimessee, and Wisconsin. Normal courses in which 

 agriculture is a feature have been definitely outlined and announced 

 in the catalogues of the University of Arkansas, Iowa State College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Kansas Agricultural College, and 

 the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. Two-year nor- 

 mal f'ourses are ofl'ered by the Colorado and Connecticut agricultural 

 colleges, Cornell University, the North Carolina College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, North Dakota Agricultural College, Oklahoma 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College, and a three-year normal course 

 is provided by the South Dakota Agricultural College. Summer 

 schools for teachers have been maintained during the year in connec- 

 tion with the universities or agricultural colleges in California, Con- 

 necticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, 

 New York, Ohio, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. A correspond- 

 ence course for teachers is offered by the North Dakota Agricultural 

 College. 



Among the eminent educators who have been honored by pensions 

 from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teacliin«: 

 during the year are Prof. J. S. Newman, recently connected with 

 Clemson Agricultural College, of North Carolina; and Dr. J. M. 

 McBryde, president of the Vhginia Polytechnic Institute. It is 

 understood that the latter will retire from active college work at the 

 close of the college year 1907. 



J. Ogden .'Vi-mour has offered to the president of the International 

 Live Stock Exposition the sum of ."$5,000 to be distributetl annually 

 at the exposition in (wenty agricultural scholarshijis to be comj)eted 

 for by the Stat(> agricultural colleges at the exposition. In a letter 

 to the president of the exposition he states tbat these schol!nshi])s 

 are given in recognition of tbe work done bv tlu^ airricidtural collv^ires 

 "in advancing the cause t)f agricultural (Mlucation in this coimtry 

 through the character and extent of theh exhibits of live stock and 

 field products at the international show." 



