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Nutrition, and the studies in the Bureau on the effect of feeding cotton-seed 

 meal to hogs. A revision of Farmers' Bulletin 22, on Feeding Farm Animals, 

 is in progress, the tables of composition and digestibility being compiled to 

 embody the new data. 



Members of the society joined in the symposiums on Improvement of Methods 

 in Agricultural Investigations and on Farm Management. 



American Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching. — The 

 second annual meeting of this association was held at Columbus, Ohio, Novem- 

 ber 14 and was attended by teachers, extension workers, and others interested 

 more particularly in the promotion of secondary instruction in agriculture. 



The secretary of the association reported an investigation made through the 

 state superintendents of public instruction concerning agi-icnlture in public 

 elementary and secondary schools. A paper on the proper equipment for 

 teaching agriculture in secondary schools was presented by D. O. Barto of 

 Illinois, who discussed in considerable detail the need of collections, illustrative 

 material, apparatus, and other equipment which must be available, either as 

 part of the regular equipment of the school or as the property of nearby farms, 

 if the teaching of agriculture is to be made effective. 



A. C. Monahan, of the United States Bureau of Education, in a paper on 

 What is Being Done to Prepare Teachers of Secondary Agriculture, stated that 

 there are now over 100 secondary special schools of agriculture located in 17 

 different States and nearly 2,000 public and private high schools giving instruc- 

 tion in agriculture. About 200 of these special or public high schools are giving 

 four-year courses in agriculture and nearly all of these are demanding agri- 

 cultural college graduates as teachers. This demand is placing a heavy burden 

 upon the agricultural colleges, which they are now endeavoring to carry by 

 organizing departments of agricultural education and outlining courses for 

 teachers. Of the 50 colleges for white students 36 now offer some opportunity 

 for teacher-training in agriculture, and 9 of these have four-year prescribed 

 courses for such teachers. The courses offered in California, Illinois, Maine. 

 Massachusetts, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Michigan, and Kansas were 

 described in some detail. 



The need of training teachers and the kind of training they should receive 

 for secondary school work in agriculture were the topics discussed in a paper 

 by A. v. Storm of Iowa. Prof. Storm emphasized the necessity of the agricul- 

 tural colleges taking up this work. He believed that the teachers of agriculture 

 in secondary schools should have nothing less than a good, well-rounded, four- 

 year agricultural course, including all of the general courses in agriculture 

 and pi'ofessional courses in psychology, history of education, principles of educa- 

 tion, special methods for high school subjects, school management, and practice 

 teaching. 



In an informal way, the association discussed the need of adequate means of 

 keeping its members and teachers of agriculture generally throughout the 

 country informed concerning new textbooks and other literature on agricultural 

 education and on the features of progress in agricultural education. A need 

 was again expressed for an agricultural education journal which should be to 

 the teachers of agriculture what the Experiment Station Record is to investi- 

 gators. The association instructed its executive committee to endeavor to bring 

 about the establishment of such a publication. 



The officers elected for the ensuing year were as president. K. L. Hatch of 

 Wisconsin; vice-president, A B. Graham of Ohio; secretary, W. H. French of 

 Michigan ; and executive committee, A. C. Monahan of Washington, D. C, 

 F. W. Howe of New York, and B. C. Pittuck of Oklahoma. 



