Annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations. 1907U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 |
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Page 5 - This includes a report on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations established under the act of Congress of March...
Page 287 - Cities and towns expending more than five dollars for each thousand of valuation for the support of public schools to be reimbursed by the Commonwealth to the amount of...
Page 5 - Columbia, $64,300 ; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required under the above acts, ascertain whether the expenditures are in accordance with their provisions, coordinate the work of the Department of Agriculture with that of the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations in the lines authorized in said acts, and make report thereon to Congress.
Page 315 - List of State Directors of Farmers' Institutes and Farmers' Institute Lecturers of the United States...
Page 286 - Our school system is gravely defective in so far as it puts a premium upon mere literary training and tends therefore to train the boy away from the farm and the workshop. Nothing is more needed than the best type of industrial school, the school for mechanical industries in the city, the school for practically teaching agriculture in the country. The calling of the skilled tiller of the soil, the calling of the skilled mechanic, should alike be recognized as professions, just as emphatically as...
Page 238 - ... movements as will meet the demand of the best type of farmers, both for the improvement of their farms and for the betterment of the life itself. The Department of Agriculture has in many places, perhaps especially in certain districts of the South, accomplished an extraordinary amount by cooperating with and teaching the farmers through their associations, on their own soil, how to increase their income by managing their farms better than they were hitherto managed. The farmer must not lose...
Page 300 - English grammar, geography, arithmetic, the history of the United States, and good behavior. Algebra, vocal music, drawing, physiology, and hygiene shall be taught by lectures or otherwise, in all the public schools in which the school committee deem expedient.
Page 5 - The Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required by section three of the said act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall ascertain whether the expenditures under the appropriation hereby made are in accordance with the provisions of the said act, and shall make report thereon to Congress.
Page 256 - By Robert Wallace, Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy in the University of Edinburgh.
Page 199 - College instruction in agriculture is given in the colleges and universities receiving the benefits of the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862...