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The Department of Poultry Husbandry offered thirteen eggs, valued 

 at $1.50, to a limited number of boys and girls who wrote the best 

 essay on " My Experience with Poultry " and who would promise 

 to hatch and rear the chickens with as little help from others a;* 

 possible. A full report was to be made to the College by Decem- 

 ber 1st. Several hundred essays were received. 



In the work in Rural School Education, elTort is made to keep 

 in communication with the school commissioners, conductors of in- 

 stitutes, teachers, and Grangers of the State, that they may know 

 of the helps which are being sent out for the benefit of farm children. 



The State Education Department at Albany is giving help to the 

 New York State College of Agriculture in furthering the interest 

 of agricultural education. Mr. C. Edward Jones of the State Edu- 

 cation Department is one of the advisers of the Rural School Leaf- 

 let. That the State Education Department and the New York State 

 College of Agriculture will work together for the betterment of 

 agriculture will add greatly to the efficiency of the efforts now 

 being made. 



In the College. — There is a growing appreciation throughout the 

 country of the educational value of school and home gardens. 

 Course 94 is given to meet the demands of the students who wish 

 to prepare themselves for pedagogical work along this line. There 

 were eight students in this course during the year 1908-1909. It 

 was thought best for the future to make as a requirement for thi- 

 work a complete course in gardening in the Department of Horti- 

 culture. In future, course 94 will be open only to those student? 

 who have had scientific preparation for the work. 



II. RECOMMENDATION. 



The model schoolhouse on the campus is very much needed a.s 

 a part of the equipment of the College of Agriculture. Used now 

 as a private school, it is difficult to make the building useful for 

 our work. We should be able at any time to open it to State edu- 

 cators, school commissioners, teachers, and Grangers and farmers 

 It should frequently be brought to the attention of the students, 

 particularly short-course men who go back to the farm districts. 

 Meetings should be held there in the interest of rural school educa- 

 tion. The building could well be used as the editorial rooms of 

 the Cornell Rural School Leaflet. The rooms should be used to 

 exhibit simple apparatus and laboratory material that could be used 

 in rural schools. We should keep here for the benefit of those who 



