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with the Idaho Station, SlO.ooO; and authori/.ingthe registration in the [Jiiited States 

 Patent I ►ffice of the names of new varieties of horticnltural plants, by the person who 

 discovers, originates, or introduces the variety, under the law authorizing the regis- 

 tration of trade-marks. 



Agricultural Education at the Meeting of the Department of Superintendence. The 

 Department of Superintendence "i' the National Educational Association held its 

 animal meeting in Louisville, Ky., February 27 to March I, there being about a 

 thousand in attendance. This Department was represented by Mr. John Hamilton 

 of this < >ffice. 



The subjects on the programme were chiefly such as related to city and town con- 

 ditions. The afternoon of the last day, however, was devoted to the consideration 

 of industrial training in the public Bchools. < >. J. Kern, superintendent of Bchools 

 of Winnebago County, III., presented a paper upon The Form of Industrial Train- 

 ing Most Practical and Best Suited to the Country Child. He made the point that 

 (•duration is primarily for self-support, and quoted President Roosevelt's declaration 



that every man in a country like ours should be "able to cany his own weight." 



Be maintained that education should be of direct service as a wage-earner; that to 

 effect this an effort should he made to interest country children in the things that 

 they will be expected to understand \\ hen they come to engage in rural occupations. 

 Fortius purpose the school garden, the experiment plat, ami held excursions are 

 valuable aids. 



Charles II. Keyes, superintendent of schools of South District, Hartford, Conn.. 

 followed with a paper upon The Form of Industrial Training .Most Practical and 

 Best Suited to the City Child. In this he called attention to the danger there is in 

 having the city child misunderstand the country, and declared itas hi- conviction 

 that the city hoy should know how it feels to actually do the things that the farmer-' 

 occupation requires. That this may he possible^ school gardens for city children 

 are a necessity. 



Around-table discussion on agricultural education was held in the afternoon and 

 evening of Monday, February 26, led by Supt. F. F. Balcomb, of the state Normal 

 School, Weatherford, Okla. The discussion took the general direction of methods 

 for introducing agricultural studies into the rural schools. There was general agree- 

 ment as to the necessity for introducing agricultural study in some form into the 

 public schools, and that this may be efficiently done opportunity must he afforded 

 teachers to receive instruction in agriculture in the normal schools. 



The Committee of the Round-Table appointed to draft resolutions summed up the 

 points agreed upon in the following declarations, which were afterwards, adopted by 

 the Department of Superintendence: 



"Resolved, That the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational 

 Association is in hearty accord with that part of the report of the Honorable .lame- 

 Wilson. Secretary of Agriculture of the United states, in which he encourages the 

 teaching of elementary agriculture in the public schools, and respectfully requests 

 ( kragress to grant the appropriation of $13,620 which he has asked for to enable him 

 to investigate and report upon the progress and present condition of agricultural 

 instruction and institutions in this and foreign countries. 



"Resolved, Second. That since it is essential to the successful teaching of industrial 

 suhjects in the puhlic schools that the teachers shall first he trained for this work, 

 we urge the State normal schools to give special attention to instruction in elementary 

 agriculture, manual training, and domestic science. 



"Resolved, Third. That in order to meet the extraordinary expenses of properly 

 equipping these schools for giving this instruction we urge the adoption of the 

 Kurkett-Pollard Bill now before Congress making appropriation to the States for this 

 purpose." 



Traveling Summer School of Agriculture. — 77" Cornell < '<>"ntr!/iit<in announce- that 

 arrangements are being made for a traveling school during the summer, to he in 



