The researchers surveyed department heads of purposefully selected agricultural teacher education programs to determine the curricular structure of agricultural teacher education in the United States. Nominations ofprograms to examine were sought from members of the profession. Graduation checklists and course syllabi for all professional agricultural education courses were analyzed. The authors concluded that programs vary greatly across the country. Courses on teaching methods and program and curriculum planning are generally available. Separate courses on serving as FFA advisors or in managing Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) programs are offered in only a few of the selected institutions. FFA was listed as a topic in 9 of the 10 institutions. SAE, or an equivalent topic was listed in all of the institutions studied. The authors offer a potential composite structure based on the programs studied. Vocational education was later tasked to help address the problems of American Education. The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) Report (United States Department of Labor, 1991) identified basic competencies needed by Americans to meet the needs of the internationally competitive workforce of the future. notice that change was needed. The National Agricultural education also was put on Academy of Science Committee on Agricultural Education in the Secondary Schools report, Understanding Agriculture: New Directions for Education (1988) examined agricultural education in this country, found it lacking, and recommended fundamental changes both in public school programs and in agricultural teacher education.

SUMMARY The content of boron in the tissues of plants, grown in solutions of known concentration, has been ascertained in‐ Vicia Faba and Gossypium herbaceum. The distribution of boron is regular and definite. The highest percentage, per unit of dry weight, is in the leaves, increasing regularly with the age of the leaf. The petioles and the stem apex are approximately equal in percentage content, and have both approximately double the stem concentration. The roots have much the lowest concentration, only 0–07 of that in the stem. This distribution of boron does not appear to be entirely due to passive transportation in the transpiration current. Boron is also present in seed grown on ordinary soil, but is confined to the cotyledons, the percentage content, in Vicia, being 50 per cent, above that of the plant stems. The amounts of boron absorbed are extremely small, though there is some storage in the tissues, and they are not directly dependent on the concentration supplied. The amounts are too small to allow of boron being regarded as a nutrient in the ordinary sense. Its importance is more probably that of an activator or regulator of metabolic processes.