64 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



Normal Schools and Agricultural Schools for Popular Education 

 in Agriculture" (84) ; "The Work in Agriculture as Conducted 

 by State and County Organizations of Young People in Club 

 Contests." The third conference of the committee was held at 

 the meeting of the Department of Superintendence held at Wash- 

 ington in 1908. Just at this time the Davis bill (28) and the 

 Burkett bill (28) were being considered as separate measures. 

 Under the direction of the National Committee on Agricultural 

 Education a conference was held with all parties interested in the 

 two measures, resulting in the introduction in Congress of a 

 new bill embodying the essential features of the two separate 

 ones. A subcommittee conferred with the President of the 

 United States, and also with the Senate Committee on Agri- 

 culture in behalf of national aid for agricultural instruction. 



The fourth, fifth, and sixth conferences of the committee were 

 held at the meetings of the Department of Superintendence of 

 1909, 1910, and 1911. At the fourth session two committees 

 were appointed, and reports were made at the fifth session. 

 These were on "Credit Value of High-School Agriculture for 

 College Entrance" and "The Course of Study in Agriculture 

 What Shall It Be?" Considerable attention was given at 

 each of these meetings to federal aid measures (Davis bill, 

 Dolliver bill, Page bill) before Congress. 



At the nineteenth annual convention (1905) of the Associa- 

 tion of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 

 K. L. Butterfield introduced the following resolution: 



WHEREAS, This Association believes that the questions involved in the 

 general and technical education of the rural people are of sufficient impor- 

 tance to warrant special recognition in the great gatherings of American edu- 

 cators: Therefore, be it 



Resolved, That our executive committee be hereby instructed to take such 

 steps as it may consider necessary in an endeavor to secure the consent of the 

 National Education Association to add to its list of special departments a de- 

 partment or departments of rural and agricultural education (85, p. 28). 



This resolution was adopted by the Association and D. J. 

 Crosby was delegated to bring the matter before the National 



