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on in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama, and twenty-three individual 

 meetings were addressed upon special request in fourteen States and 

 one Territory. Many of these addresses were illustrated by lantern 

 slides. On several occasions a representative of the Service accom- 

 panied the 'corn specials/ which were run to carry exhibits of pro- 

 gressive farm methods." 



The total number of publications issued by the Department in 1906 

 was 1,171. Of these, 513 were original, comprising 22,444 pages. 

 The number of copies of publications issued during the year aggre- 

 gated 13,488,021. The requests from educational institutions for 

 these publications are constantly increasing in number. It is not 

 an unusual thing to send out several thousand publications in a single 

 day for use in public school classes. The Farmers' Bulletins espe- 

 cially are coming to be used extensively in college and school classes, 

 granges, farmers' clubs, and reading circles. 



EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The work of the Office of Experiment Stations in relation to educa- 

 tional institutions engaged in promoting the. teaching of agriculture 

 has become so broad and the demands on this Office for services in 

 aid of this movement have become so varied that it has been deemed 

 best to divide the educational work of the Office into two sections. 

 One of these deals with the agricultural colleges and schools; the 

 other promotes the interests of the farmers' institutes and other forms 

 of extension work in agriculture. 



The work of the Office relating to the agricultural colleges and 

 schools during the past year has included (1) the collection and pub- 

 lication of information regarding the progress of agricultural education 

 at home and abroad; (2) studies of different grades of American and 

 foreign schools in which agriculture is taught; (3) work in cooperation 

 with the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations and other important associations dealing with educa- 

 tional matters; and (4) the giving of aid to agricultural colleges and 

 schools and to State and local school authorities along lines of agri- 

 cultural education, 



RELATION TO AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 



The department of agricultural education maintained in Volume 

 XVII of the Experiment Station Record has contained 125 abstracts 

 of important text-books, manuals, and other publications relating to 

 this subject, besides numerous notes concerning agricultural colleges 

 and schools. 



There have also been prepared and published the annual statistics 

 and organization lists of the agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations, a bulletin on School Gardens, a circular on A Four- Year 



