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larly well outlined, and illustrated by accounts of work actually 

 carried on in two existing agricultural high schools: one the 

 Dunn County (Wisconsin) School of Agriculture and Domestic 

 Economy; the other, the Minnesota Agricultural High School 

 connected with the Agricultural College of Minnesota (81). 



The fourth period is characterized by a more active interest 

 in agricultural education. Three important steps were taken : 

 (a) continuation of Committee on Industrial Education in 

 Schools for Rural Communities; (fe) formation of National 

 Committee on Agricultural Education; (c) organization of a 

 Department of Rural and Agricultural Education. 



The Committee on Industrial Education in Schools for 

 Rural Communities made two reports, one at the meeting of the 

 Association in 1907 and the other at the meeting of 1908. 



In some preliminary investigation for the supplementary 

 report the correspondence showed that "what was most wanted 

 was a definite statement of what was actually being done in 

 different parts of the country in providing facilities for industrial 

 education in rural communities." The supplementary report 

 represents the efforts of the committee to satisfy this demand. 

 It consists of three parts : a discussion of the general problem, 

 including school buildings, school gardens, manual training, na- 

 tionalizing the work (referring to the Davis bill then before 

 Congress) and in what schools agriculture should be taught; 

 industrial work in New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 and New York; experiences and opinions of individual teachers 

 in the preceding territory (82). 



The second report (1908) is limited to "a presentation of 

 what is being done in schools representing four types of organi- 

 zation, as showing the possibilities in other schools of these types 

 and the conditions under which these possibilities may become 

 actualities." The schools selected and reported upon are the 

 Waterford High School, at Waterford, Pa., the Cecil County 

 High School, at Calvert, Md., the John Swaney Consolidated 

 School, in Magnolia Township, Putnam County, 111., and the 



