490 EXPERIMENT STATION KECOED. 



June 7, 1907, in which the importance of the agricultural college to the farmer 

 is dwelt upon. 



Educating boys to be fanners, W. J. Spillman {Farm and Ranch, 26 {1901), 

 No. 37, PI). '/, J). — An epitome of an address delivered at the Texas Farmers' 

 Congress in July, 1907, in which the speaker notes examples of success in farm- 

 ing which lie attributes to education and good management, and brings the 

 American public school system to task for affording very little training which 

 encourages boys to live in the country. He cites the agricultural colleges and 

 the few agricultural schools as exceptions, but shows that in Texas, for example, 

 if the State agricultural college were to attemirt to provide a graduate for each 

 of the 352,000 farms in the State once in 25 years, it would have to graduate 

 14,000 men from its agricultural course every year. This being manifestly im- 

 possible, he advocates the establishment of agricultural high schools with a. 

 little more practical work than is provided in the curricula of the agricultural 

 high schools in Georgia. He would have four commercial establishments con- 

 nected with each high school — a dairy farm of about 60 acres, an orchard and 

 truck farm, a large poultry plant, and a general farm, all run as commercial 

 enterprises, the work to be done entirely by the students in the high school dur- 

 ing the first two years of their course, under the immediate supervision of 

 trained instructors. 



"At the end of these two years a boy should know how to milk a cow better 

 than any farmer in Texas knows to-day ; he should know how to prune a tree, 

 and how to pack a box of fruit for shipment. During the third year the prac- 

 tical work of the high school student is that of the instructor of the first and 

 second year students. During this year the student learns how to manage 

 others — one of the most important things that a young Inan has to learn. During 

 the fourth year the student should make \Torking plans for- every one of these 

 four industries, and for a part of the year he should be the actual superintendent 

 of each of them in turn." 



The Macdonald movement for rural education. Evidence of J. W. Robert- 

 son before the select standing committee on agricultui'e and colonization, 

 1906-7 {Ottana. I'.xn'. ini. ISS-iOd. jtls. J. )naits .i). — Information concerning 

 the Macdonald movement for rural education which was brought out in hear- 

 ings before a select standing committee on agriculture and colonization, includ- 

 ing statements concerning benefits to agriculture resulting from agricultural 

 education and the educational institutions developed as a part of this move- 

 ment, among which are manual training centers, school gardens, consolidated 

 rural schools, the Macdonald Institute at Guelph, and Macdonald College at 

 Ste. Anne de Bellevue. 



Agricultural education, W. C. Palmer {Ind. Farmer, 62 {1007), No. 32, p. J, 

 fig. 1). — xVn appeal for the teaching of agriculture in the public schools and for 

 the establishment of practical agricultural schools. 



Agriculture in the common schools, J. G. Herron {Ann. Rpt. Ohio Bd. A(jr., 

 61 {1907), pp. ISO-lSJi). — This is a farmei'S' institute address in which some of 

 the reasons for the movement of country people to the city are set forth, among 

 these the influence of schools. The teaching of agriculture in the common 

 schools is mentioned as on^ of the possible remedies for this condition, but it is 

 pointed out that before this can be successfully accomplished the schools need 

 to be improved in other ways. 



Agriculture in the country schools, W. G. Miller (Ann. I'pt. Ohio Bd. 

 Ayr., 61 {1007), pp. 177-ISO). — This is an address before a farmers" institute 

 in which it is argued that country l>oys should receive some instruction in agri- 

 culture, which is regarded as the most important branch of industry. The 

 purpose of such instruction is said to be twofold — to help meet the wants of the 



