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istry, and lias eutered upon his duties. A correspondence course in agriculture 

 for teachers has been inaugurated under the direction of the division of exten- 

 sion worlt and farmers' institutes. 



Canada Experimental Farms. — J. H. Grisdale, agriculturist for 11 years at the 

 Central Experimental Farm and Dominion agriculturist for the last year, has 

 been appointed director of the Dominion Experimental Farms, vice Dr. William 

 Saunders, who has retired. 



Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. — The 

 twenty-fifth annual convention will be held in Columbus, Ohio, November 15-17, 

 1911. The Ohio State University will extend all available facilities for the use 

 and convenience of the association. 



Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. — The 

 program of the Mobile meeting, February 23-25, was devoted to the general 

 topic Educational Achievement and Educational Endeavor at the Close of the 

 First Decade of the Twentieth Century, and from the frequent mention made 

 of agricultural education, it would appear that one of the important achieve- 

 ments of this decade is a realization of the importance of extending insti-uction 

 in agriculture from the agricultural college downward into the secondary and 

 elementary schools. 



In the session devoted to achievement and endeavor in cooperation there was 

 frequent mention of the progress made in teaching agriculture and in the or- 

 ganization of boys' and girls' rural life clubs, and in the last general session, 

 when all of the papers discussed the Progress and True Meaning of the Practical 

 in Education, one of the principal addresses was by P. G. Holden. of the Iowa 

 College, who reviewed recent progress in teaching agriculture in elementary and 

 secondai-y schools, and interpreted the meaning of the practical in teaching 

 agriculture. C. B. Gibson, in a paper dealing with progress in vocational train- 

 ing, also gave much credit to recent developments in agricultural education. 



In summing up the discussion for the afternoon, Carroll G. Pearse, of Mil- 

 waukee, maintained that boys and girls should be taught to live in the world 

 to-day, and hence that vocational education has a place in the schools. Con- 

 tinuing, he said " nothing is so big and important as what lies before us in the 

 agricultural development of our country." Not only the lawyers and other pro- 

 fessional men have the right to vocational education, but the man who works 

 with the hoe, the ax, the awl, and the hammer, but in providing for the exten- 

 sion of vocational instruction downward, there should be avoided the danger 

 of neglecting essentials in intellectual instruction such as good English, mathe- 

 matics, and the other fundamentals of education. 



The National Committee on Agricultural Education held two meetings, at the 

 first of which the principal paper was on Agricultural Education in the North, 

 by J. W. Heston, president of the South Dakota State Normal School, who 

 reviewed conditions in the North with reference to teaching agriculture in col- 

 leges, special agricultural schools, normal schools, and public schools. In the 

 absence of J. D. Eggleston, who was announced for a paper on Agricultural 

 Education in the South, D. J. Crosby of this Office gave a similar review of 

 conditions in that section. 



At the second meeting of the committee H. H. Seerley gave a review of the 

 change in sentiment and in conditions relating to agi-icultural education since 

 the committee was first organized five years ago. This change has been appar- 

 ent not only in the establishment of new agricultural institutions, but in the 

 widespread growth of sentiment in favor of teaching agriculture quite generally 

 in the public schools. 



Exhibits of work in agriculture and domestic science as conducted at Win- 

 throp College in South Carolina and the Alabama Girls' Normal and Industrial 



