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[Agricultural and forestry education in Austria] {Land u. Forstw. XJii- 

 ierrichts Ztg., 2k (iOlfJ), Nos. 3-'i, pp. I V+ 149-3 11). —Thi» report includes 

 among other data the following special articles : The Mutual Assistance of the 

 School and Home in Agricultural School Life, by Franz Kozeschnik ; Concerning 

 the Education of the People Outside of School, by Ludwig Fleischner; The 

 Introduction of Agricultural Courses into the Army; The Cultural Significance 

 of Instruction in Home Economics, by Franz Brosch; The Text-book Question, 

 by Ernst Vital ; Concerning Several Public and Private Economic Problems of 

 Forest Production, by Adolf Cieslar; The Determination of Subject-matter in 

 Lower Forestry Instruction, by Karl Pusch; and Commercial Instruction in the. 

 Agricultural and Forestry Schools and Itinerant Domestic Science Schools in 

 France, by Leopold Freih. v. Henuet. 



Housekeeping instruction for girls in Prussia, L. Axt (Monatsh. Landw., 

 J/ (1911), No. 7, pp. 208-214). — This is a discussion of the need of housekeeping 

 instruction in Prussia, followed by a detailed account of the agencies by means 

 of which this instruction is being given in rural communities, such as permanent 

 agricultural housekeeping schools and itinerant courses, as well as the training 

 of teachers for this work. 



Instruction in the practical agricultural schools, J. J. Barneda {Min. Agr. 

 {Argentina^, Div. Ensenanza Agr. [Pult.], 5. sen, 1910, Xo. 1, pp. 32). — This is 

 a detailed statement of the object of the practical schools of agriculture in 

 Argentina, together with information concerning students, faculty, courses of 

 study, methods of instruction, etc. 



Carrying the message to the people, E. B. Sparks {Farmers' Nat. Cong. 

 U. S. Proc, 30 (1910), pp. 55-58). — The author outlines the various methods 

 suggested by teachers and investigators to keep the boy and the girl on the farm 

 and concludes that the solution of the problem lies in education. He reviews 

 the differing requirements for country and city life, and states that whether the 

 endeavor to teach agriculture in the public schools will be more than an attempt 

 will depend upon the training of the teacher to teach the subject efficiently, 

 upon convincing the teacher that the subject can be taught successfully, and 

 upon providing the teacher with a more serviceable outfit than the text-book. 



Elementary school agriculture, E. B. Babcock and C. A. Stebbins (New 

 York, 1911, pp. 65, flgs. 8). — This is a teacher's manual to accompany Hilgard 

 and Osterhout's Agricultiu-e for Schools of the Pacific Slope (E. S. R., 25, p. 

 297). It contains suggestions for school gardens and also for the development 

 of typical lessons. In connection with these suggestions there are directions for 

 setting up and using apparatus and other illustrative material. Appendixes 

 contain an outline of agriculture and nature study by groups, lists of plants 

 requiring comparatively large amounts of water and comparatively little water, 

 and lists of reference books and other publications. 



The school garden in the course of study, E. B. Babcock and C. A, Steb- 

 bins (California Sta. Cire. 62, pp. 12). — A progressive course in school garden 

 work is outlined in the first half of this circular from the first to the eighth 

 grade, with a group scheme for smaller schools. The balance of the circular pre- 

 sents a course of study in school gardening for the sixth, seventh, and eighth 

 grades. 



Boys' corn clubs and improved methods of corn growing, T. K. Bbtant 

 (Kentucky Sta. Bui. 153, pp. 3-15). — This bulletin is designed to meet the needs 

 not only of the members of the boys' agricultural clubs but also of farmers in 

 general. A general outline is given for a proposed constitution and by-laws for 

 boys' agricultural clubs and of the principal points to be considered by such 

 clubs. A brief genei'al discussion is included on fertilizers, the importance of 



