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ing, including butter and cheese making, etc. In the first half of 

 the present scholastic season, beginning m October, 1910, the courses 

 of systematic lectures will embrace the following subjects: Ele- 

 mentary chemistry, elementary anatomy, physiology of plants, 

 improvement and cultivation of the soil, agricultural meteorology, 

 agricultural economy, seeds, agricultural implements, cattle and 

 swine raising, etc. 



SWEDEN. 



A school for training teachers of domestic science, with special 

 regard to the demands of the country, was organized by the Fred- 

 erika Bremer Society, a large woman's association, in the autumn 

 of 1907. To accustom students to the conditions prevailing at small 

 farmer homes a farm of such size as may be regarded normal for a 

 small farmer family in Sweden is connected with the school. All the 

 students live in the schoolhouse, which will accommodate 20 students, 

 and there receive theoretical instruction as well as practice in cook- 

 ing, tidying-up, dishwashing, baking, preserving, washing, and all 

 other kinds of home work. The students are divided into five 

 classes, and each class spends a fortnight in each department of the 

 school. During six months in summer housewife pupils work at the 

 school and are taught in part by the teacher students, who thus 

 acquire practice in teaching, are relieved in part of the practical work 

 in which they have attained proficiency, and thus have more time 

 for gardening. The theoretical instruction includes science of 

 nutrition, food, chemistry, physics, botany (cultivated plants) ; physi- 

 ology, hygiene, children's nursing, bookkeeping, household budgets, 

 etc., dairy work, gardening, and agronomy. A high-school course 

 is desirable for admission to the school as a teacher student, but is 

 not insisted upon. For its establishment the school received $670 

 from the Government, $1,045 from the royal agricultural societies, 

 as well as some money from private persons. The Government also 

 makes an annual appropriation of $1,072 to the school. The teacher 

 students pay $160 a year and the housewife pupils $8 a month. The 

 stafi^ consists of a principal and four teachers, and extra teachers 

 give lessons in some branches. The regular course prepares students 

 to become teachers in permanent and itinerant cookmg classes and in 

 farming schools in the country. 



EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The twenty-fourth annual convention of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations was held at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, November 16-18, 1910. A varied and interesting 



