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also to the fact that it has been added as an additional subject to 

 a teacher's already overcrowded program. One teacher writes 

 that he is offering agriculture this year for the first time, but is 

 expected also to teach physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, physi- 

 ology, geology, and physical geography. Several teachers have 

 bought small farms primarily in order that their students might 

 have the advantage of actual field experimentation. 



With the earnest body of teachers now beginning to take up 

 the work and with the progress already made it seems likely that 

 the demands for agricultural instruction in the training of teach- 

 ers in state normal schools will soon be met. The real test of 

 the value of this training is in the work of the teacher who goes 

 out from the schools and it is now too early to pass judgment. 



