48 HEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



third session of the Gnuluate School of A^ricuhure at Cornell Uni- 

 versity was the most successful yet held. Plans have been made for 

 the fourth session at the Iowa Afirieultural Colle«je, and the director 

 of this Ollit-e has accei)ted an invitation to act as dean of this session. 

 <jrraduate schools oll'erin«jj courses in ajj^riculture were established in 

 connection with the agricultural colle_<::es in Illinois and Massachusetts. 



During the year the agricultural colleges have given instruction in 

 agriculture to more students llian iu any previous year and have also 

 done more effective work along other lines. Several of the biennial 

 state appropriations for these institutions have approached or passed 

 the half-million mark, notably in AVashington ($487,000), Pennsyl- 

 vania ($520,000), and Kansas ($071,000). The growth of the agri- 

 ■cultural colleges is also indicated bv the number and character of 

 college buildings completed during the 3'ear. Among the more im- 

 portant of these were the following agricultural buildings: Georgia, 

 $100,000; Iowa, $400,000; Maine, $50,000; Michigan, $175,000; Mis- 

 souri, $100,000; and Montana, $80,000. Wisconsin has completed a 

 "$75,000 live-stock pavilion, and California has started work on a 

 1^200,000 agricultural building. Faculties and courses of study were 

 reorganized on broader lines in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Loui- 

 siana, Massachusetts, Oregon, lUiode Island, South Carolina, and 

 Wisconsin; definite provision for training public-school teachers of 

 agriculture or for aiding them through extension departments or 

 special publications is now made by agricultural colleges in twenty- 

 seven States, and fully as many of these institutions are engaging 

 actively in other forms of agricultural extension work. New agricul- 

 tural colleges have been established in Hawaii and Porto Rico and 

 the former was opened early in 1909. 



Secondary courses in agriculture have been established in connec- 

 tion with the agricultural colleges in Montana, Oregon. South Dakota, 

 Texas, and Virginia, two district agricultural high schools have 

 been provided for in Idaho, likewise four in Arkansas with a total 

 appropriation of $1(;0,000, two more in New^ York with a total appro- 

 priation of $100,000, and five in Oklahoma, tAvo of which have been 

 located and have received $20,000 each for buildings and $12,000 each 

 lor maintenance. Subsidies have been voted to encourage the teach- 

 ing of agricultural and domestic science in public high schools as_ 

 follows: In Texas, $32,000; in Minnesota, $25,000 for ten schools; in 

 Virginia, $20,000 for ten schools; in jNIississippi, $1,000 for one school 

 in each county; and in Louisiana, $500 to each school approved by the 

 state board of education. In Massachusetts the Smith Agricultural 

 School and Northampton School of Technology has been opened at 

 Northampton and smaller agricultural high schools at Petersham and 

 Montague. 



