Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-22
farming efficiency
BROUGHT BY Diversity
Instruction Given IN This
Methods Through Eleven
Main Agencies
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-As indl'
eating the diversity of methods en-
ployed to keep the United states III
its position as the geatest agrlcu!.
tural nation in the world the Unlted
States bureau of education notes that
instruction in efficiency methods on
the farm is now given in this coun-
try through no less than eleven main
agencies. These agencies, according
to a publication just issued for free
distribution by the Bureau, are ele'
mentary and secondary schools, and
agricultural high schools; county
schools of argriculture; travelling
schools teaching the same pursuit;
farmers educational trains; farmers
Institutes; agricultural clubs and like
organizations; gardens for city
schools; normal schools of agricul-
In order to supply the baNs for a
complete understanding of this move
ment Edward D. Greenman, in charge
of the referance section of the United
States bureau of education, has pre-
pared comprehensive photography
on the subject. The photography In.
cludes 377 entries with every type OF
activity designed to promote agricul-
tural education in this country and
abroad.
"The majority of these references"
said Mr.. Greenman yesterday, "are Of
comparatively recent date, for the
reason that the movement toward
agricultural education itself has at
tanned considerable proportions only
within very few years. Thus, it Is
interesting to note that the first chair
in agriculture education, as such IN
this country was founded by the
Massachusetts Agricultural College in
1907. Now about two-thirds of the
agricultural and mechanical colleges
in the United States are offering some
opportunity for special preparation
for teaching agriculture. Agricul-
tural institutions of college grade
have of course been inexistence for
many years, but the agricultural edu-
cation of children is a movement OF
such recent growth that like the
paIils, it may almost be said t. be
even now in it's teens"
In addition to a photography on
agricultural education in all it's
phases, the bureau of education's
contains the most exhaus.
tive compilation of literature on the
teaching of domestic science, cookery,
and home economics yet brought to-
gether. This part of the bulletin,
which was compiled by Miss Edith A.
Wright, of the bureau of education's
library staff, consists of POI entries.
"The nationwide movement for the
instruction of young girls in the
arts as parallel courses to
those in agriculture which are taught
their brothers," said Miss Wright
Yesterday, lis even more of an inno-
walton than the teaching of agricul-
ture itself to children. Nevertheless
the newer subjects has made such
rapid strides that to-day practically
every elementary school or high
school which offers agriculture to its
pupils also includes domestic science
in its course as we'll.
Indeed, the two courses are re-
garded as so intimately related that
n many colleges the domestic-science
courses are included in the depart
ment of agriculture, the girl gradu-
ates from the cooking school rece!v-
ing the same agricultural degree as
10 the boys who take the instruction
in agriculture"
The government publication, which
S entitled autobiography of Education
n Agriculture and Home Economics"
will be sent free upon request to the
United States commission of educa-
lion, department of the Interior,