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mark. notably in Montana (s4S7 ,0OO),
Pennsylvania (s52G,000) and Kansas
($61000 The growth of the agricul-
tural colleges is also indicated by the
number and character of college build
ings completed during the year Among
the more important of these We're the
following agricultural buildings:
Georgia, 100000: Iowa, S400, 900;
Maine, $4,000; Michigan, $175.000;
Missouri, 100000, and Montana. SSO.-
600 Wisconsin has completed a S75.-
coo livestock pavilion. and California
has started work on $500 900 agricul-
tural building.
The third session of the Graduate
School of Agriculture, held at Cornell
University, had a larger attendance
and was more generally successful
than either previous session; graduate
schools Offering courses in agriculture
We're established in Illinois and Mas
sachusetts faculties and courses OF
study were reorganized on broader
lines in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Carolina and Wis
consin; definite provision for training
public school teachers of agriculture
or for aiding them through extension
departments or special publications IS
now made by agricultural colleges in
tWenty-Seven states, and fully as many
of these institutions are engaging az
lively in other forms of agricultural
nCin
leges have been established in Hawaii
and Porto Rico and the farmer was
opened early in 1900.
Secondary courses in agriculture
have been started in connection with
the agricultural colleges in Montana.
Oregon, South Dakota, Texas and Vir-
ginia; two district agricultural high
schools have been provided for in Ida
no, likewise four in Arkansas with a
total appropriation of 100000; and five
in Oklahoma. two of which have been
located and have received $4,000 each
for buildings and $4,000 each for
maintenance. Subsidies have been
voted to encourage the teaching Of
agriculture and domestic science in
public high schools in Texas, Mime
sofa, Mississippi and Louisiana. In
Massachusetts the Smith Agricultural
school and Northampton School Of
Technology have been opened at
Northampton, and smaller agricultural
high schools at Petersham and Mon
tague.
The Introduction of agriculture into
the elementary schools has also been
promoted actively. In this work the
colleges have been particularly active
through their summer schools and
other teachers courses, and through
the preparation of courses of study and
school leaflets and the encouragement
of boys and girls clubs. These clubs
are now reported from the twenty
nine states with a total membership
of upward of one hundred and fifty
thousand.
"All of the states have farmers in
stitute organizations, and there were
held last year 1926 regular institutes,
consisting of 1920 halliday sessions,
with a total attendance of 2,196,56S,
up Institutes and other forms of insti-
tute activity, of almost three millions.
This represents an increase in attend
ance at the regular institutes over the
year 1903 of about 270 percent. The ap-
propriations by the states for the sup
port of these institutes for the last
year amounted to $33S,OOO.
ton of farmers institute teachers have
now become a part of every well Or
ganized institute system. Eight Of
these normal schools were reported
during the year, with an attendance Of
one thousand institute lecturers.
Fourteen states ran railroad spec
ials and report an attendance of more
than $4,000. Numerous other railroad
specials were conducted by state
boards of agriculture and by the agri-
cultural colleges, Independent of the
institute organizations. The railroad
companies now not only furnish trains
to the institute directors free Of
charge, but they provide also board
and lodging for the instruction force.
Movable schools of agriculture arc
fast becoming leading features in farm
ers' institute development, more than
twenty-five hundred persons being reg
is+ered as students in these schools
during the year. The instruction is
given by skilled teachers to classes of
adults regularly organized, and the
sessions continue from one to three
weeks in a locality.
Special subject Institutes are being
introduced in many of the states.
Where these are conducted the entire
institute period is devoted to the treat
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