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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education: Educational periodicals, B. M. Davis (El. School 

 Teacher, 11 {WW), No. 1, pp. 15-23). — In this number the author discusses in 

 particular the influence of Barnard's Journal of Education on the development 

 of agricultural education, and in a more general way 3 groups of educational 

 periodicals: (1) Those devoted to general problems in education and having 

 general circulation, in which the attention given to agricultural education is 

 said to be much less than would seem to be warranted in view of the great 

 public interest in the subject; (2) special periodicals, including those devoted 

 to some single phase of education, as, for example, orthography, penmanship, 

 manual training, etc., among which 2 are mentioned as devoting considerable 

 attention to agricultural education, one in the field of secondary agriculture, 

 and the other in the field of elementary agriculture; and (3) local journals of 

 education, several of which are said to have exerted a strong influence for the 

 promotion of agricultural education. A bibliography of some of the leading 

 articles appearing in educational periodicals is given. 



Agricultural education: Periodical literature, B. M. Davis {El. School 

 Teacher, 11 {1910). No. 2, pp. 79-89). — The importance of popular periodicals 

 is recognized by the author, but he says that " on the whole, agricultural peri- 

 odicals have maintained too conservative an attitude toward agricultural edu- 

 cation, both as to colleges and elementary and secondary schools." As indi- 

 cating the nature of the work done by popular periodicals a review is given of 

 some of the leading articles on the general subject of agricultural otlucation 

 that appeared in the periodicals of this country in 1903, near the beginning of 

 the active promotion of elementary and secondary agricultural education. 

 Several other articles are also reviewed, and all of these are referred to defi- 

 nitely in a bibliography. 



Agricultural education: State organizations for agricultural and farmers* 

 institutes, B. M. Davis {El. School Teacher, 11 {1910), No. 3, pp. 13G-li,.5).— 

 In this contribution to agricultural education the author discusses the influence 

 of state departments of agriculture, state fairs, agricultural contests held under 

 the direction of the state offices of agriculture, and state farmers' institutes. A 

 bibliography of the subject is appended. 



Agricultural education: Agricultural societies, B. M. Davis {El. School 

 Teacher, 11 {1911), No. 5, pp. 26G-21-'i). — In this article four periods are recog- 

 nized in the relation of agricultural societies to the development of agi'icultural 

 education, viz: (1) The period of beginnings, from 17S5-1850; (2) the period 

 of agricultural fairs, from 18.50-1870; (3) the period of great organizations, 

 from 1870-1892; and (4) the period of adjustment, from 1892 to the present 

 time. Much credit is given to the early agricultural societies in Pennsylvania, 

 New York, and Michigan for the agitation which led to the establishment of 

 agricultural colleges, and the influence of .such societies is recognized in later 

 years as having a bearing on the progress of these institutions, as well as a 

 more or less independent value in promoting agricultural education in the 

 fields not covered by the colleges of a,gi'iculture. 



Report of the board of education on agricultural education {Rpt. Mass. 

 Bd. Ed. on Agr. Ed., 1911, pp. lOJf). — This report embodies the recommendations 

 of the state board of education of Massachusetts as to an investigation con- 

 ducted by direction of the legislature on the advisability of establishing a sys- 

 tem of public agricultural schools throughout the Commonwealth, and the 

 practicability and desirability of establishing a farm school in the city of 

 Worcester. 



