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ture in this department," and he is " unable to see how a course 

 in agriculture would enable a pupil to take up university work 

 advantageously." 



JVisconsin. One-half year's work may be presented for en- 

 trance to the University of Wisconsin under the category of 

 " optional work." It may also be presented together with botany 

 for a year's credit. 



Minnesota. As yet this work may be presented only in the 

 college of agriculture. The university strongly recommends that 

 high schools place large emphasis upon the agricultural applica- 

 tion of all the sciences taught in the high schools. 



Iowa. The State University of Iowa does not accept agri- 

 culture because " the content and character of the courses in the 

 very few instances where they are given is so uncertain . . ." 

 Exception would doubtless be made to the general rule " in the 

 case of a given school in which a course in agriculture had 

 become well established under proper conditions including an 

 especially prepared teacher, who is a master of the subject not 

 only from the content side but also from the pedagogical side." 

 The inspector sees no reason why such well organized work 

 " should not be credited as substantial high-school work." The 

 principal of the Guthrie County High School reports that the 

 university inspector regarded the agricultural work in the school 

 as being of the same grade as the other science work. 



Missouri. The agricultural college and the teachers college 

 are the only departments of the University of Missouri that 

 accept agriculture at present. Action by the faculty of the col- 

 lege of arts and sciences seems to wait upon the formulation 

 by the agricultural college faculty of a unit of agriculture, which 

 they had not done at the time of the latest information received, 

 July, 1909. The announcement for the summer session for that 

 year mentions, however, that certain work offered in agriculture 

 will be counted toward the B. S. degree in the teachers college, 

 and also that any three of these same courses will be accepted 

 by the college of agriculture as one unit for entrance. 



Kansas. In the catalogue of the University of Kansas, agri- 

 culture is listed as a half-unit course in the group of industrial 



