miscellanp:ous. 995 



;iii(l friiil packing:. In tbe majority of cases instruction was given for at least 

 two liours a (lay and for •". or more days, and the course usually ended with a 

 (•omi)etition and prizes for skill in the work that had been undertaken. 



The development of agricultural education in Scandinavia, A. Vstcjakd 

 (///. Ai/r., Jt {l'.)(i(;i. Xo. ,i. 111). <Ki-!iS). — The writer reviews hrielly tlie his- 

 tory of aj^ricultural education, tracinsj; it back to the garden of Albrecht Tliaer, 

 in the province of Hannover. Germany, at the end of the eighteenth and tlie 

 beginning of the nineteenth centuries. lie shows the development in the Scan- 

 dinavian countries of elementary schools, their decline on account of a dearth 

 of proi)erly trained instructors, the rise of tlie higher agricultural institutions, 

 and the sui)sequent development on a better basis of the elementary schools. 



Tables are given showing 1 agricultural college and 3.3 lower agricultural 

 schools in Norway, 2 agricultural colleges and 57 lower schools in Sweden, and 

 I agi-icultural college and •_':; lower schools in Denmark. Another table shows 

 I be area of these 3 countries, the population, and the percentage of rural ])opula- 

 linn. The agricultural colleges in each of the 3 countries are briefly described. 

 There is also a discussion of tlie elementary and special schools in the differ- 

 <'nt countries. 



An experiment in school consolidation in Canada, G. P. Phenix {Soutli. 

 W'ir/.Dxni. ,U! (l!il)7). Ao. 2, />//. 7!>-Sti. fi(/s. 5). — This is a description of the 

 Macdonald Consolidated School in New Brunswick, which is located about liO 

 miles north and 12 miles west of St. John in the hamlet of Kingston. It is 

 shown that while before consolidation the enrollment in the 7 districts was 125, 

 after consolidation it rose to IGG in the first term and 175 in the second. The 

 average attendance in the unconsolidated schools was 44 per cent of the enroll- 

 ment and in the consolidated school 84 per cent. Thus the daily attendance 

 has been trebled and the percentage of attendance doubled. 



The writer .states that " the real secret of the success of this school at Kings- 

 ton is to be found in the intrinsic worth of the course of study and in the 

 strength of the instruction in the school itself. The difference between the 

 course of study here and in the ordinary country school is sufficiently suggested 

 by the difference in equipment. The orchard, the grafting tools, the pruning 

 knives, the spraying apparatus, the kitchen with all its household implements, 

 the sewing tables, the benches and tools, and the laboratory for indoor work in 

 the winter — all utterly foreign to the ordinary school — here have a definite use." 



Figures are also given to show the influence of agricultural education upon the 

 dairy industry in Canada. 



Statistics of educational institutions, 1903-4 (dsfrrr. Stat is., 77 (1900). 

 \(>. .?. PI). X.TXT+2N8).— These st.'itistics, imblished by the Koyal Statistical 

 Connnission of Austria, show the classes and location of educational institutions, 

 including agricultural and forestry schools, together with their date of organiza- 

 tion, length of courses of study, number of jier.sons in faculties, number of stu- 

 dents in attendance, etc. Fnder agricultural and forestry institutions there are 

 listed the agricultural division of the Koyal T'niversity at Krakow, the agri- 

 cultural high school at Vienna, 20 secondary and middle schools, and 1(;2 

 elementary schools. The total attendance at these schools in 100.3-4 was G.G90. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Eighteenth Annual Report of Connecticut Storrs Station, 1906 {Connecti- 

 cut stmrs std. I! 1,1. mix;, pp. A,\7// + ,?or;).— This contains a financial statement 

 for the fiscal year ended .Tune 30. inOC. reports of the director and heads of the 

 departments, reprints of Bulletins .''.S— 12 of the station, issued during the year, 

 and a classification of dairy bacteria noted briefly elsewhere. 



