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gave some results of farm enterprise and management surveys and 

 cost accounting investigations, discussing problems peculiar to cer- 

 tain sections and some profitable types of farming, and O. R. John- 

 son, of the University of Missouri, discussed the use of the farm 

 diary, giving results of some studies of farm records and surveys. 



Some special problems of rural communities in different parts of 

 the country and the relations of the Department of Agi'iculture 

 to the State agricultural colleges and local organizations in the de- 

 velopment of extension work were discussed at evening and Satur- 

 day conferences. Methods of instruction relating to soils and crops, 

 the vexed question of requirements in farm practice in college courses 

 in agriculture, the work of traveling professors in Europe, and the 

 i-elative conditions of agricultural research in Europe and the United 

 States were also considered at these conferences. 



Taken as a whole the work of this session of the Graduate School 

 was more generally of a kind and grade appropriate to such a school 

 and the students were more generally such as could appreciate and 

 profit bj^ graduate instruction than ever before. The interest and 

 attendance were maintained to an unusual extent until the close of 

 the session. 



The problem of securing a larger representation of States and in- 

 stitutions at this School is evidently not solved. The great increase 

 of summer work in the agTicultural colleges and experiment stations 

 is keeping man}- away. The fact that in many cases attendance at 

 the Graduate School would practically cut off the annual vacation, 

 so much needed by busy workers in these institutions, deters others 

 from coming. It is thei'efore necessary still to urge that the man- 

 agers of the institutions from which most of the students at the 

 Graduate School must be drawn would do well to consider more 

 seriously the advisability of more definite and liberal encouragement 

 of attendance on the part of their faculties. An arrangement by 

 which at least three or four men from each college would be enabled 

 to attend each session would gi'eatly enhance the benefits which the 

 agricultural colleges throughout the country might derive from this 

 School. 



