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Bureau of Education of the Department of the Interior are 

 also affiliated. 



The work of the x\ssociation has resulted in standardiz- 

 ing agricultural education throughout the United States. 

 "At its convention of 1894 it appointed a committee on 

 entrance requirements, courses of study, and degrees, whose 

 final report presented two years later was adopted. 1 In 

 1895, a permanent committee on methods of teaching agri- 

 culture was appointed. This committee has issued many 

 reports, the thirteenth report being " a secondary course in 

 animal husbandry and dairying ". While these reports of 

 the committee have been adopted by the association, their 

 recommendations have not always been accepted by all of 

 the colleges. The work as a whole, however, has served to 

 bring unity into courses and educational standards. 



COURSES IN DAIRYING 



The agricultural colleges offer four-year courses in agri- 

 culture, and some offer also graduate courses leading to 

 the degree of Ph. D. In these courses the work of the stu- 

 dent in some institutions is prescribed for one and one-half 

 or two years and the remainder is elective. The elective 

 principle is often restricted by the idea of grouping allied 

 subjects. That is, the student is allowed to specialize at 

 his own discretion, but in deciding upon a major he must 

 also take a certain number of related subjects. At Cornell 

 University, for instance, the student's work is prescribed 

 for the first two years and during the last two years he is 

 allowed to choose between 21 groups. These groups are as 

 follows: " (1) Farm practice, (2) agricultural chemistry, 

 (3) entomology and general invertebrate zoology, (4) 

 plant physiology, (5) plant pathology, (6) soil technology, 



1 Circular 106, Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



