494 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



and Territories iu 1909; monthly receipts and stocks of eggs and poultry in the 

 principal cities of the United States; and range of prices of agricultural prod- 

 ucts for a period of years. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



A program of agricultural progress, .7. Hamilton ( W. Va. Unw. Bill., 9. 

 ser., 1910, No. 9, pp. 12-2Ji). — In this address, delivered at the college of agri- 

 culture of West Virginia University, the author outlined the needs of agricul- 

 ture, particularly with reference to restoring fertility, and discussed the 

 functions of the agricultural college, the agricultural experiment station, the 

 state department of agriculture, the National Department of Agriculture, and 

 subordinate agencies in bringing about better conditions. 



Agricultural instruction in Algiers {Bui. Agr. Algdrie et Tiinisie, 16 

 (1910), No. 12, pp. 296-303) .—In this article are discussed the diffei'ent methods 

 of disseminating agricultural knowledge throughout the colony, viz, by the 

 schools of agriculture, departmental and special professors of agriculture, the 

 School of Sciences of Algiers, the botanical and agricultural stations of Algiers, 

 agricultural societies, horticultural and agricultural committees, primary 

 schools, and the annual congress of agriculture held in each of the three prin- 

 cipal towns of the departments of the colony. 



Tenth annual general report of the Department of Agriculture and Tech- 

 nical Instruction for Ireland (Dept. Agr. and Tech. Instr., Ireland, Ann. Gen. 

 Rpt., 10 (1909-10), pp. VI+Ji90). — This is a report on the department's admin- 

 istration and funds, and on details of its work during 1909-10, including agri- 

 cultural and technical instruction. 



The report on agricultural instruction comprises details concerning the work 

 of individual institutions, special classes, lectures, and practical demonstra- 

 tions carried out by itinerant instructors in agriculture, horticulture, poultry 

 keeping, and butter making throughout the couiitry and by agricultural over- 

 seers in congested districts. At the close of the year 1909-10 the department's 

 program of agricultural education had been 10 years in operation, and in some 

 features of instruction the reix)rt gives data for the 10 years, or from the 

 organization of the instruction, to show the progress made. 



Detailed accounts of the work in technical instruction are given in the 

 reports of inspectors, tables, and appendixes. 



The appendixes include statements of the receipts and expenditures under 

 the department's parliamentary grant, endowment fund, etc. ; the personnel 

 of the agricultural councils and boards; a table showing by counties the agri- 

 cultural schemes adopted by the several county committees for 1909, the amount 

 appropriated from the joint fund for each scheme, and the proportions of the 

 total appropriation chargeable to local contributions and to the department's 

 grant, respectively; schemes of instruction in agricultural subjects; pros- 

 pectuses of agricultural colleges and stations and schools of rural domestic 

 economy; agricultural scholarships and apprenticeships; a program of experi- 

 mental science, drawing, and domestic economy for day secondary schools; a 

 program for technical schools and science and art schools and classes, including 

 domestic economy ; examples of schemes of technical instruction in nonagri- 

 cultural subjects, including domestic economy; a list of day secondary schools 

 showing the grants paid by the department during 1909-10 for instruction in 

 the subjects of the department's program, including domestic economy, given 

 during 1908-9; and a statement showing the occupations of students, including 

 domestic science classes, attending schools and classes conducted under the con- 

 ditions of schemes of technical instruction in nonagricultural subjects, etc. 



