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iiioiit. iwcMuios for tlio ycnr. etc.: niid tin- liiK^s (.f woiic niul iiulilicatii)iis of tlu! 

 •'xpcriuieiit stations, thoir revenues. .-Klditions to ('(luipnieiit, and dassilication of 

 exiienditnres for the fiscal year. 



The total number of institutions niaintaininf^ courses in agriculture i.s 6:5, 

 with a totai income in IDil.'t of $1 1.7<i7.1."i4..''i4. The total number of jier.sons in 

 tile faculties of the collegev; of agriculture and mcclianic arts was '2.i>~'2. and in 

 other dei)artnK'nts LSSii, making a grand total of -l.r)(;i per.sons in the faculties 

 of the land-grant institutions. The enrollment of students in colleges for \vhit<; 

 persons was 0:5. .lis. and in colleges and schools for colored persons, G.21J4. 



The total number of experiment stations is CO. exclusive of substations, and ct" 

 these o.j receive the beneht of the Hatch Act. The total income of these stations 

 during lOd.-) wa.s $l,5ir),T34.47, of which .i;71.S,l(;3.45 was received from the 

 National (iovernment. In addition to this, the Office of Exi)eriment Stations had 

 an ai)propriation of $177..")ii(), including !);i.l.(i(iO each for the Alaska, Hawaii, and 

 I'orto Rico stations, .$2(),0(l() for imtrition investigations, .^(M.odO for irrigation 

 investigations, and $5.0(10 for fanners' institutes. The stations employed 845 

 persons in the work of administration and iiKpiiry. of whom 428 did more or less 

 teaching in the colleges with which the stations are connected. During the year 

 the stations published 4(»o annual reports and bulletins, which were supplied to 

 over 7.S1,000 addresses on the regular mailing lists. 



School agriculture (.Ir/r. Gu.:. X. N. Wales. 17 {l!)()C,). Xd. 0. i^). DOo-'JKi. flux. 

 ')■. il(nu. J). — An account is given of the success attained I)y Mr, John llalsted, 

 while teacher of the public school at Eglinton, in teaching elementary agricul 

 Ture, horticulture, tioricultiu'e, arboriculture, and apiculture. The account in- 

 cludes an outline showing the methods employed, a weekly lesson from the pro- 

 gram illustrating the correlation of practice and theory, and a syllalms of the 

 two-year course. 



Agriculture, a school subject, ('. W. Burkett (Indit.strialist. 33 (1900), Xo. 

 I). i>i>. N.i-.or/». — Two reasons ai-e given for considering agriculture a good subject 

 to teach in schools, viz, that it affords in a preeminent way (1) a wide field for 

 acciu'ate. interesting, and uplifting knowledge, and (2) a wide field for doing. 

 Agriculture is a cultural subject because it is '■concerned with the highest 

 truths that the mind can consider, namely, the laws of life, of growth, of 

 !]crr(lit>', of adaptation, of seU'ction, of environment." It is also a practical 

 siiliject because of the direct application of its principh^s to life and i)ecause it 

 sliows the relati(Mi between cause and effec-t. 



Suggestions are given to the teacher for the use of the text-book in teaching 

 agriculture, for written work in connection with the text-book work, and for 

 experiments lioth at school .nnd at the homes of the children. 



Outline for instruction in elements of agriculture for the use of teachers 

 in common schools, ('. P. ("akv ( | U'/v. ,'>hilr Snpl. Pith. Iiistr.] Bill. J3. i>i>. .1). 

 litis, j). — The Wisconsin l;iw ( f I'.Hj.") re(juiring the teaching of agriculture 

 among the branches of study in jinblic schooLs is interpreted, and an outline for 

 this subject is given. It is recommended that agriculture be taught in the last 

 half <if tlie eighth year, and that nature study be given in all grades through 

 general exercises and in comiection with language exercises, geography, read- 

 ing, and history. 



'I'he outline is divided into three parts: (1) Agriculture, including the soil, 

 w.-iter and the soil, tilling the soil, soil enrichment, the j)lant. the leguminous 

 plants, ])lant enemies, rotation of crops, selection of seed, the farm garden, 

 weeds, and home and school garden : (2) farm .•mimals, including care and feed- 

 ing. ty|>e forms, an<l farm economics, and (.'It farm jioultr.v. A biI)liogra]ihy of 

 reference books and bulletins en the topics mentioned in the outline is given. 



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