﻿8 BULLETIN 7, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



enrolls. Prof. Bricker's plan is to hold the sessions of the school on 

 Saturdays, either of consecutive or alternate weeks, the session con- 

 tinuing for six Saturdays. There would seem to be no reason why a 

 similar teachers' short course might not be conducted continuously 

 for a week or two weeks in connection with the teachers' institute, 

 or the short course made a substitute for the regular institute or 

 elective therefor at the option of the teacher. 



The following is a list of institutions offering short or extension 

 courses in agriculture for teachers: 



List of institutions offering special short courses or extension courses in agriculture 



for teachers. 



State. 



Institution. 



Location. 



Nature of course. 





Fresno State. Normal School. . . 

 Moores Hill College 





Evening and Saturday classes 

 in agriculture for teachers. 



Special teachers' course during 

 spring term. 

 Do. 





Moores Hill 









State Agricultural College 



Harvard University (Gradu- 

 ate School of Applied Sci- 

 ence). 



Gratiot County Normal 



Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College. 



Industrial Institute and Col- 

 lege. 



Columbia University 



Manhattan 



Cambridge 



Special courses during spring 

 term for rural and high-school 

 teachers. 



Term from February to No- 

 vember. Graduate work in 

 entomology and applied bi- 

 ology. No work in agricul- 

 ture", as such, offered." Stu- 

 dents may take summer 

 work only. 



Massachusetts 



Mississippi 



Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



tary agriculture offered in 



spring term. 

 Short course for teachers during 



spring term. 

 Two terms of six weeks each in 





New York 



West Raleigh 



spring, with special course 

 for teachers. 



North Carolina 



Ohio 



Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College. 



in agriculture. Lecture and 



laboratory work. 

 Special "May school'' for 



teachers, with courses in 



agriculture and gardening. 

 Special extension schools in 



agriculture for teachers, at 



various points in State. Held 



on Saturdays. 



Pennsylvania 



Central State Normal. 



Lock Haven 





Clarion State Normal 



culture and nature study in 

 spring term, for teachers.' 





Millersville State Normal 



State Normal School 



Millersville 



ture study in spring term, 

 for teachers. 



Course in agriculture and na- 

 ture study during spring 

 term, for teachers. 



Elementary agriculture during 

 spring term. 





Oneida County Teachers' 

 Training School. 



Rhinelander 





until last of June for benefit 

 of teachers. Agriculture of- 

 fered in spring term. 



CORRESPONDENCE COURSES. 



The study of agriculture by correspondence has grown rapidly in 

 favor in the last few years, and this method of study has many 

 advantages which adapt it specially to the needs of employed teachers. 

 Probably chief among these advantages is the fact that by this plan 

 the work can be taken up and pursued at the convenience of the 



