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States, a list of institutions in the United States offering courses 

 in agriculture, and a card index of agricultural institutions have also 

 been prepared. A circular has also been published on The American 

 S3'stem of Agricultural Education and a bulletin entitled School 

 Gardening and Nature Stud}' in English Rural Schools and in 

 London. A review of progress in agricultural education in 1908 was 

 submitted for publication, as were also a circular on Education for 

 Country Life and a bulletin on Secondary Agricultural Education 

 in Alabama. 



(2.) Studies of American and foreign schools in which agriculture 

 is taught have been carried on in connection with the editorial and 

 other work of the Office, and the number of cards in the index to 

 these institutions has been increased by ()25, making a total of 5,800 

 such cards. The number of cards of foreign agricultural research 

 institutions is now 1,390. In connection with the annual inspection 

 of agricultural experiment stations and on occasions when members 

 of the staff have been called upon to attend important meetings in 

 the different States, the work of American colleges and schools of 

 agriculture and of normal schools offering courses in agriculture 

 has been studied. A special study of methods and equipment used 

 in teaching agriculture in the land-grant schools for negroes in Ala- 

 bama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro- 

 lina, and Tennessee was made for this Office by J. O. Rankin, pro- 

 fessor of agriculture in Talladega College, Talladega, Ala. 



(3) The educational work in cooperation with the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations has been 

 carried on as formerly. The Director of this Office has continued to 

 act as bibliographer of the association and as chairman of the com- 

 mittee of the association on instruction in agriculture, which sub- 

 mitted at the convention of the association in 1908 a course in agri- 

 cultural engineering, and is now engaged in studying courses in home 

 economics, animal husbandry for public schools, and courses in agri- 

 culture in state normal schools. These courses have been prepared 

 by specialists employed by this Office or by the committee. The 

 Director also acted as chairman of a committee of the association on 

 the history of agricultural education and as dean of the third ses- 

 sion of the Graduate School of Agriculture, held during July, 1908, 

 at Cornell University (pp. 280-287). He has accepted the deanship 

 of the fourth session of this school, to be held at Ames, Iowa, in 1910. 



The specialist in agricultural education has continued to act as 

 secretary of the committee on instruction in agriculture of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Agricidtural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 

 and in this capacity has directed the preparation of the manuscript 

 courses in animal husbandry and normal school agriculture men- 

 tioned above. 



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