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agriculture, etc. ; organizing and conducting school garden work 

 in city and rural schools ; conducting seed exchange with schools 

 interested in tree-growing and gardening; conducting organiza- 

 tions for the encouragement of nature-study; visiting, super- 

 vising, and teaching in the public schools ; assisting at teachers' 

 meetings; organizing excursions of teachers to university sta- 

 tions; organizing boys' and girls' clubs and publishing a paper 

 to unify this work; assisting with the demonstration train; cor- 

 respondence with superintendents, principals, and teachers, and 

 others interested in educational work. Various specialists of 

 Kansas Agricultural College, under the direction of the depart- 

 ment of agricultural education, have prepared a series of six 

 agricultural primers. These have been placed in the hands of 

 each teacher of the state, and have been used as a text in all 

 the normal institutes during the summer of 1911. In general, 

 these new departments seem to regard the development of agri- 

 culture in high schools as an important part of their work. 

 Mention should be made in this connection of the co-operation of 

 the College of Agriculture of Cornell University and Teachers 

 College of Columbia University for the training of students for 

 special work as teachers of agriculture in high schools and normal 

 schools. "Appropriate courses in agriculture are taken at Cor- 

 nell University and the study of educational problems at Teachers 

 College" (36, pp. 36-37). The Pennsylvania Agricultural Col- 

 lege offers a special course of one year for graduates of normal 

 schools and colleges who expect to teach in the public schools. 

 The department of agricultural education is also giving instruc- 

 tion by correspondence to a large number of teachers. The 

 University of Wisconsin is making special effort to prepare 

 teachers for work in secondary agriculture in the public schools. 

 One course of study leads to the B.S. degree in agriculture, and 

 to a university teachers' certificate which requires a certain 

 amount of work to be done in education; a second leads to the 

 degree of A.B. with a minor in agriculture ; a third leads to 

 the degree of A.B. with a major in manual arts and a minor in 



