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are the "Experiment Station Record," which is a monthly 

 review of the scientific investigations of stations and kin- 

 dred institutions throughout the world ; and ' ' Experiment 

 Station Work," which is a popular series setting forth the 

 practical results of station work. 



The Office of Experiment Stations is also doing much to 

 promote agricultural education throughout the country. In 

 the course of the past summer its director was dean of a 

 successful graduate school of agriculture held in connection 

 with the Ohio State University, where many of the leaders 

 of agricultural education gathered for a month, to discuss 

 the problem of agricultural science and instruction with an 

 advanced body of students collected from all parts of the 

 country. He is also chairman of the standing committee 

 of the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations on Methods of teaching Agriculture. 

 This committee has done much to promote the more sj'stem- 

 atic and thorough teaching of agricultural subjects in the 

 colleges.' It has recently turned its attention to the formu- 

 lation of courses in agriculture for the high schools, and 

 made a report on this subject at the recent convention of 

 colleges and stations at Atlanta. This report will soon be 

 published, and it is hoped will do much to aid the move- 

 ment alread}" begun for the introduction of the teaching of 

 agriculture into our public high schools. The office has also 

 given attention to nature study and school gardens, and it 

 has published reports on these subjects. It is now actively 

 seeking to promote the interests of the farmers' institutes, 

 which are the schools for our adult farmers. Over 2,000 of 

 these institutes are now annually held in the United States, 

 and last year they were attended by over 700,000 fiirmers. 

 They are a ver}^ effective means for the broad dissemination 

 of reliable and up-to-date agricultural information ; and the 

 Department of Agriculture may well aid the States and 

 Territories in the more thorouo'h oro-anization of these insti- 

 tutes, so that they will reach the masses of our farmers who 

 are not yet alive to their value and importance. 



The Office of Experiment Stations is also in charge of 

 special investigations on the food and nutrition of man. 



