810 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



senting subtypes of live-stoek farming are desscribed. These include a general live- 

 stock farm in Illinois, a dairy farm in Indiana, and a sheep farm in Ohio. "The 

 study commenced in this paper will be continued, and publications showing the 

 methods of management pursued on different types of farms in all the principal 

 agricultural sections of the country are under consideration." 



Statistics of the land-grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations 

 in the United States for the year ended June 30, 1902 ( l'. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Offirr (if J'J.ipi'rliiu'iit Slcdioiiif Bui. 128, pp. 3S). — These statistics relate to the courses 

 of study at the agricultural colleges, number of students in attendance, value of per- 

 manent funds and equipment, revenues for the year, etc. ; and the lines of work and 

 ]jublications of the experiment stations, their revenues, additions to equipment, and 

 classification of expenditures for the fiscal year. The total number of experiment 

 stations in the United States is 60, exclusive of substations, and of these 55 receive 

 the benefit of the Hatch Act. The total income of the stations during 1902 was 

 $1,328,847.37, of which $720,000 was received from the National Government. In 

 addition to this, the Office of Experiment Stations had an appropriation of $139,000, 

 including $12,000 each for the Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico experiment stations, 

 $20,000 for nutrition investigations, and $50,000 for irrigation investigations. 



The stations employ 710 persons in the work of administration anil inquiry, 364 

 of whom do more or less teaching in the colleges with which the stations are con- 

 nected. During the year they published 373 annual reports and bulletins, which 

 were supplied to over half a million addresses on the regular mailing lists. 



Instruction in agronomy at some agricultural colleges, A. C. True and D. J. 

 Crosby ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of E.rperimenl Stations Bui. 127, pp. 85, pis. 17, figs. 

 22). — This bulletin contains a brief review of the work of the committee on methods 

 of teaching agriculture of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations, with extracts from the reports of that committee, and detailed 

 descriptions of the courses in agronomy in the agricultural colleges in Alabama, 

 Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Ohio, and the agricultural institute of 

 the University of Gottingen, Germany. 



Progress in secondary education in agriculture, A. C. True ( U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Yearbook 1902, pp. 481-500, pis. 2) . — This is a review of the progress that is being 

 made in secondary education in agriculture in the United States. The present status 

 of the high schools as regards industrial education is set forth, the schools of agricul- 

 ture of the universities of Minnesota and Nebraska and the agricultural high schools 

 in Wisconsin and other States are described, and suggestions are made for courses in 

 agriculture in the jjublic high schools. 



The serious problem of obtaining teachers properly qualified to give instruction in 

 agriculture in high schools is also considered, and the advantages to be derived from 

 high school courses in agriculture are pointed out. "Technical education has proved 

 a sure road to commercial development and greatly increased wealth in connection 

 with every industry which has received its benefits. It will prove equally so as 

 regards agriculture. The tremendously productive results which have already come 

 from the work of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations may be multiplied 

 a hundredfold by the education of hundreds of thousands of the flower of rural youth 

 in secondary schools in which there is definite and systematic teaching of the tech- 

 nique and scientific principles of agriculture." 



Primary commercial education in Germany, E. L. Harris ( U. S. Consular 

 Rpts., 72 {1903), No. 273, pp. 190-199). — Statistical information on this subject. 



