Author: University Of California

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 1058

ISBN-13: 9780428145521

Excerpt from Annual Report of the President of the University, 1918-1919 Agriculture. - Notable among the activities of the Department of Agriculture during the year have been the expansion of the department's extension activities through the state and the emergency courses of study offered at the University Farm. The details of the department's exten sion activities, as carried on by seventy-five members of the staff em ployed the whole time, and the remaining members employed a consider able part of the time during the last two years, have been set forth at some length in the department's Circulars No. 208 and No. 209. There are now over members of the State Farm Bureaus, holding over 400 meetings in as many Farm Bureau centers monthly. A teacher train ing center for students planning to engage in high school agriculture work has been established at Davis at the request of the California State Board of Education. To date 102 of these so-called emergency students have received instruction both in technical agriculture and in teaching principles and methods. The requirement of the State Board of Educa tion that all high school students benefiting by the smith-hughes fund should conduct a project involving the raising of animals or the produc tion of some crop necessitates the training of teachers to supervise these projects. Beginning June 30, 1919, as a part of the University of California Summer Session, twenty-three teacher training courses in agriculture were offered at the University Farm and certain courses were offered at the Citrus Experiment Station. As heretofore, courses in agriculture were offered at the Summer Session at Berkeley and at Los Angeles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.