The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-09

Georgia, 100000 Iowa, $500, 600:
Maine, $4,000; Michigan, s175,000;
Missouri, 100000, and Montana, $780,
900. Wisconsin has completed a $751;
600 livestock pavilion, and California
has started work on 100000 agricul-
tural building.
'The third session of the Graduate
School of Agriculture, held at Cornell
University, had larger attendance
and was more generally successful
than either previous session; graduate
schools offering courses in agriculture
were 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
extension work. New agricultural col
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
total appropriation of 100000; and five
in Oklahoma, two Of which have been
located and have received $4,000 each
for buildings and 2,C00 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 az
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 2,196,56&
and, including railroad specials, round
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-
propriationg by the states for the sup
port of these institutes for the las3
year amounted to S338,O00
Normal Institutes for the instruc-
ton of farmers institute teachers have
now become a part of every well or
gained 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 159, 900. 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 are
fast becoming leading features in farm
ers' institute development, more than
twenty-five hundred persons being reg
istered 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
ment of single subject, discussing it |
thoroughly in all of it's features More |
than seventeen thousand persons were
in attendance upon meetings of this !
character during the year.
institutes especially intended for
women are rapidly being organized /
Twenty-one states held Institutes of |
this character in 1908. The need for /
more definite instruction for country !
women in domestic and sanitary sci
ence and household art than is given
in the ordinarily Institutes for men has
brought about a great demand for in
stitutes for women. New, York Tri.
bune.