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agriculture and methods of teaching it, and special practical courses 

 in poultry husbandry and fruit growing. 



At the Kansas Agricultural College domestic science and agricul- 

 tural courses for teachers were given in May and June. The Massa- 

 chusetts and Michigari agricultural colleges held summer schools 

 similar to those of the previous year. The Tennessee college again 

 offered scholarships at the summer school for the South to teachers 

 desiring to take four or more hours a week of work in agriculture, 

 and many took advantage of this offer. 



In Virginia the State University at Charlottesville gave courses in 

 educational psychology, rural school problems, history of education, 

 agriculture, domestic science, manual training, nature study, school 

 gardening, and teachers' training work for white teachers; and 

 Hampton Institute continued its practice of conducting four weeks' 

 courses in cooking, dressmaking, manual training, nature study, 

 poultry keeping, and principles of teaching for negro and Indian 

 teachers. 



At the Iowa college evening seminars were held to aid in training 

 teachers of agriculture and domestic science for high schools. 



Oberlin College, which w^as the first college in Ohio to offer lectures 

 in agriculture many years ago under Professor Townshend, but which 

 has not given such courses in recent years, held its first summer school 

 of methods during the six weeks ending August 6. Instruction was 

 offered in various subjects of interest to elementary and high-school 

 teachers, including manual training, agriculture, forestry, agricul- 

 tural education, domestic science and art, nature study, and human 

 physiology and hygiene. 



The Oklahoma state department of education has established an 

 agricultural division under the direction of the deputy state superin- 

 tendent of public instruction, for the assistance of public-school teach- 

 ers in agriculture, domestic science, and manual training. It plans 

 first to promote the organization of boj's' and girls' home-culture 

 clubs. 



The agricultural colleges were also unusually active in preparing 

 courses in agriculture for public schools and other helpful literature 

 for teachers. The Michigan Agricultural College published a brief 

 outline for a course in agriculture for the elementar}' schools of Michi- 

 gan, together with a similar outline for high schools, supplemented by 

 more detailed directions for carrying on botanical work, lessons on 

 farm crops, farm management, farm mechanics, horticulture, aninuil 

 husbandry, and soils. Lists of books and bulletins suitable for the 

 agricultural library of high schools were suggested. 



The Massachus<'tts Agricultural College j)ul)lishe(l a pamphlet en- 

 titled •• Public School Agriculture," which was the woik of a com- 

 mittee appointed at the close of a conference on agricultural science 



