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Adaiitation of Education to Life in Switzerland; Count Carl Moltke, envoy 

 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the Kingdom of Denmark, on 

 tlie Cooperative Movement in Denmark and the Benefits Derived Therefrom by 

 the United States ; Dr. H. B. Frissell, on the Movement for Agricultural Co- 

 operation in Ireland ; Dr. J. C. Bay, on the Folk High School and Rural Life 

 of the Scandinavian Countries; and Clarence Poe, on Some Lessons from the 

 Orient. 



Among the addresses on phases of rural-life instruction in this country were 

 an illustrated talk on the Reconstruction of the One-room Rural School, by 

 Miss Jessie Fields, superintendent of schools, Page County. Iowa, and an 

 address on Some Results of the Application of Newer Ideals in Education, by 

 O. H. Benson, of this Department, who described boys' corn club work, public- 

 school agricultural exhibits, and other features of rural-school improvement 

 in Wright County, Iowa. 



Dr. J. L. Coulter, of the University of ?»iinnesota, described typical instances 

 of rural cooperation in America. D. C. Ellis, of the Forest Service, gave an 

 illustrated lecture on the Relation of Our Forests to V\"ealth and Life, and called 

 particular attention to the need of instruction concerning these matters in the 

 public schools. 



At a meeting of Southern State superintendents. Superintendent J. Cook, of 

 Columbus, Miss., read a Review of Progress in Southern Education, calling 

 attention briefly to features of progress in each of the Southern States. Among 

 the more important items relating to country-life education were mentioned 

 legislation permitting consolidation by transportation in Arkansas ; the organi- 

 zation of a conference on education in Florida to consider departments of 

 manual ti'ainiug, agriculture, business, and domestic science in public high 

 schools; the increase in the annual income of Georgia agricultui'al schools to 

 $10,000 for each school ; the maintenance of 5 summer schools for white teachers 

 and 2 for colored teachers, and the establishment of 17 departments of agri- 

 culture in county high schools in Louisiana, each school receiving an equal 

 share of $25,000 from the State; the establishment of a State normal school 

 and of 2.3 State-aided county agricultural schools in Mississippi ; legislation in 

 North Carolina for the establishment of State-aided country-life schools, an 

 increase in taxation- for elementary public schools, and an increase in the 

 appropriation for rural higii schools; the stimulation of agricultural education 

 in South Carolina by the organization of boys' corn clubs, and of home eco- 

 nomics instruction by the organization of tomato clubs among the girls ; the 

 organization in Texas of State-aided departments of agriculture, home eco- 

 nomics, and manual training in 10 public high schools, and of similar depart- 

 ments for teachers in 4 State normal schools and the State University; and the 

 addition of $10,000 to the total appropriations for departments of agriculture and 

 home economics in Virginia high schools. State rural-school supervisors are 

 now employed in nearly all of the Southern States. 



At an afternoon conference on Education for Larger Productiveness on the 

 Farm, with President A. M. Soule presiding, President J. C. Hardy discussed 

 the functions of the agricultural college ; H. A. Morgan, of Tennessee, spoke on 

 the training of teachers of agriculture and the development of short courses 

 to take the place of farmers' institutes; and J. F. Duggar emphasized the im- 

 portance of cooperation among all the southern educational agencies. The 

 work of the consolidated Farragut School, at Concord, Tenu., in teaching agri- 

 culture and home economics, conducting demonstration plats, and affording 

 social entertainment for the people of the community, was described by its prin- 

 cipal, Adam Phillips. 



