AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 889 



Agriculture in the common schools, W. M. GiussoM (J^chool Netvs and 

 Pract. lUI.. .iU {11)01). \<>. 7. iip. .il2, 313). — An argument for changes in the 

 school curriculum which will relate the instructitm to life problems either 

 liir<ini.'li instruction in elementary a.ijriculture or througli nio<lification of 

 aritlnncti<-. .sieof^rapliy. and other subjects, to make them apply more directly 

 to I'nrai cDnditioiis. 



Country life education, A\'. M. Hays (U. «Sf. Dcpt. A(/r., Office Expt. 8tas. 

 Circ. 73, pp. 13). — Tiiis is an address by \V. M. Hays before the Pennsylvania 

 State Board of Agric-ulture January 2.">, 11)07, in which he discusses the new 

 school movement springing out of the land-grant act of 18G2 and subsequent acts 

 of Congress for the aid of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, and the 

 proposition to extend Government aid to agricultural high schools, mechanic 

 arts instruction in city high schools, and liome economics instruction in botli 

 coimtry and city. 



Annual repoit Winnebago County Schools, 1906, O. J. Kern (Rockford, 

 III.: Aiilhor. I'.ioii. pp. !)ii. fifis. lO'j. iixip 1. ilinns. 7). — This report includes the 

 following chapters: (1) The improvement of school grounds and buildings — a 

 series of reports of things done and not done In the country-school districts 

 of Winnebago County in tiie way of tree planting and otherwise improving the 

 school grounds; (2) school gardens and elementary agriculture — sixty dis- 

 tricts did school garden work in 1906 for the purpose of beautifying school 

 grounds, making children acquainted with plant life, soils, conservation of 

 moisture, protection from injurious insects, etc., and making the child a more 

 efficient factor in the home garden work; (8) Winnebago County Farmer 

 Boys' Experiment Club and Girls' Home Culture Club, including reports on 

 various contests; (4) manual training ui the country school; (5) books and 

 pictures, with special reference to the 81 traveling libraries which circulate in 

 rural districts of the county; (6) some statistics of the rural schools, and (7) 

 tiie i)roblem of consolidation of country schools. 



Home science and the school curriculum, Mary C. Macpherson (Rpt. 

 Wumen'.^ lusts. Ontario. 1906, pp. 102-100). — An address before the annual 

 convention of the Women's Institutes of Ontario, held at Macdonald College De- 

 cember V^ and 14, 100.1, showing how home science may be taught in relation 

 to otiier subjects in tlie school curriculum. 



What form of industrial training is most practical and best suited to 

 the country child? (). .7. Kek.n (El. Hchool Tvachcr, 7 (UI07). .Yo. 6\ pp. 32.i- 

 32H). — The writer considers the educational value and practicability of teaching 

 elementary agriculture, manual training, and home economics in the country 

 schools. 



The improvement of our rural schools and their surroundings, E. E. 

 I'.ALCOMB {Birn. Rpt. Olda. Bd. Af/i:, 2 (190.5-6), pp. 317-3.!,7, figs. 58).— -This 

 paper Is devoted to suggestions for the improvement of school buildings inside 

 and out and the Improvement of school grounds by means of planting trees, 

 shrubbery, vines, and flowers. Many specific suggestions of means for bringing 

 about these improvements are given, and the numerous illustrations aid in 

 making tlicsc suggestions cl(^ar and forceful. 



School grounds and school gardens, K. A. Emerson (Bui. yehr. State Hart. 

 Soc. Xos. .'/. pp. 11, fins. 2; J. pp. 11, fir/s. ,?).— Part 1 of this :irticle is devoted 

 to the planning of school grounds with reference to playgrounds, trees, shrubs, 

 flowers. lawns, school gardens, and nurseries, and to suggestions and directions 

 for i)lanting and caring for trees and shrul)bery. 



Part 2 contains a discussion of school gardens wliicli may or may not be 

 located on the school gromids. Mow to pr(>pare the ground, what, when, and 



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