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ered existence of over 40 years, been closed. A brief iiislorical account of the 

 organization and worlv of tlie farm and college is given. 



Public school agriculture, A. V. Storm {loica Yearbook Agr. 190S, pp. 

 S.>f-()0). — In lliis address the author discusses the need of agriculture in the 

 public schools for the purpose of improving agriculture, for better homes and 

 citizenship, and for better schools. He calls attention to the farmers' insti- 

 tutes, agricultural colleges, and the teaching of agriculture in the public schools 

 as means to bring about improvement in rural conditions, and in discussing the 

 educational value of agriculture in the public schools brings out the fact that 

 the psychologists of to-day agree with the people who are demanding the intro- 

 duction of agriculture in the public schools, because they believe in the educa- 

 tional value of whatever will help adjust the individual to his environment and 

 enable him to solve the problems of his surroundings. 



Normal school instruction in agriculture, INI. J. Abbey ( U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Office E.rpt. iitas. Cir. HO, pp. 31). — This circular deals with the purposes and 

 methods of teaching agriculture as the subject has been developed during the 

 past 4 years at the State Normal School, Mayville, N. Dak. Consideration 

 is given to the text-book and laboratory instruction, typical laboratory exer- 

 cises, apparatus and illustrative material, school garden, practice teaching, 

 excursions, methods of instruction, and the correlation of agriculture with 

 other normal school subjects. The circular contains suggestive outlines for 

 the study of cereals and farm animals and references to the literature found, 

 in the normal school library. 



Secondary education in agriculture in the United States, A. C. True ( U. S, 

 Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Circ. 91, pp. 11). — An address delivered at the 

 1909 meeting of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations, and previously noted (E. S. R., 21, p. 508). 



Secondary agricultural education in Alabama, C. J. Owens {JJ. 8. Dept. 

 Agr., Office E.rpt. Stas. Bui. 220. pp. 29, pis. 8). — This bulletin deals with the 

 history, legislation, organization, and equipment of the 9 Congressional district 

 agricultural schools of Alabama, with an estimate of their influence on the 

 agricultural and educational work of the State. It includes the report of com- 

 mittees appointed to formulate a uniform course of study and a plan of ex- 

 perimentation, and a record of some of the more important plat experiments 

 undertaken by the se^'eral schools. 



The agricultural extension service {Wisconsin Sta. Circ. Inform. 7, /*/). 

 IJf). — A description of the work under way in the different departments of 

 the agricultural extension service of the Wisconsin College and Station, and 

 of the ways in which farmers of the State may secure this service. 



A public library on wheels, E. I. Farrington {Suburban Life, 9 {1909), No, 

 6, pp. 299, 300, figs. 7). — A description is given of the work of the library wagon 

 of the Washington County Free Library at Hagerstown, Md. This wagon, in 

 addition to carrying boxes of books to library depositories in different parts 

 of the county, carries 200 books on shelves which are available to every farm- 

 house along its 16 routes. It is stated that in 1908 .3.700 volumes were 

 circulated. 



Outlines of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, etc., .T. W. Taven- 

 NER {Normal, 111., 1909, pp. 2.'i). — The author has preparetl this small pamphlet 

 as an aid to pupils as well as teachers of agriculture. It includes outlines of 

 courses in soils,. soil fertility, field crops, horticulture, animal husbandry, bee- 

 keeping, farm mechanics, the farm home, forestry, and cooking, references to 

 the Farmers' Bulletins of this Department, experiment station bulletins, and 

 other llteratin-e being appended to each outlined course. 



