292 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



system, quotes the opinions of a number of farmers as to rural free delivery, and 

 gives directions as to the method of procedure in starting new routes. 



Agricultural education in France, C. B. Smith ( U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1900, 

 pp. 115-lSO). — A paper on this? su])ject in which are popularly discussed the French 

 national department of agriculture, national schools of agriculture, practical agricul- 

 tural schools-, farm schools, agriculture as taught in the public schools, departmental 

 and special professors of agriculture and their functions, and agricultural experiment 

 stations and laboratories of France. 



"France has, in all, 12 institutions for teaching agriculture of the first and second 

 degrees, 43 for teaching the third degrees, 34 for pure practice of apprenticeship, 

 3,362 fields of demonstration, 77 establishments for analysis and agricultural research, 

 and 214 departmental and special professors of agriculture, who give instruction 

 yearly to 300,000 adult farmers and conduct agricultural classes in the normal schools 

 for men and in the rural primary schools." 



