106 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



RURAL SCHOOLS. 



Friday evening. 



President J. L. Snyder presided at the closing session of the Institute, 

 which was devoted to the subject of Rural Schools and Gardens. At 

 the opening of the meeting, the College cadet band gave a concert and 

 later on in the program the M. A. C. chorus rendered ''The Heavens are 

 Telling/' from Haydn's Creation. Both of the addresses were illustrated 

 by stereopticon views. Those shown by Mr. Crosby had been taken in 

 various parts of the country and gave a good idea of what can be, and 

 is done by means of school gardens for the children in the congested 

 districts of cities. 



NATURE STUDY AND SCHOOL GARDENING. 



(Abstract of an illustrated address by Dick J. Crosby, of the OflSce of 

 Experiment Stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture.) 



Nature study and school gardening are features of the great forward 

 movement in agricultural education, which is at present commanding 

 the attention of leading educators all over the United States. In order 

 that we may clearly comprehend the relation of nature study and school 

 gardening to the other features of this forward movement let us examine 

 for a moment the following outline. 



FEATURES OF THE FORWARD MOVEMENT IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



1. Recognition of the need of graduate instruction in agriculture. 



(1) 'Graduate School of Agriculture. 



(2) Graduate courses in agricultural colleges: 



Forty colleges provide courses for Master's degrees. 

 Eleven colleges provide courses for Doctor's degrees. 

 II. Improvements in the pedagogics of collegiate courses in agriculture. 

 (1) Development of a science of agriculture. 



(2) Division of agriculture into specialties : 



Plant production — Agronomy, horticulture, forestry. 



Animal husbandry. 



Agrotechny — Dairying, sugar making, etc. 



Rural engineering. 



Rural economics. 



(3) The organization of agricultural faculties on the basis of the 



division of agricultural science. That is, the employment of 

 professors and instructors of agronomy, animal husbandry^ 



