598 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



ducted in 15 centers with an enrollment of over 1,200 children. The per capita 

 cost per month of the gardens was 36 cts. They are operated for the benefit 

 of children in the fourth grade only. Children above this grade must have 

 home gardens. 



The third annual report of the School Garden Association of America 

 (Ann. Rpt. School Garden Assoc. America, 3 {191.^), pp. 16, figs. 6). — Reports 

 of the president, treasurer, and secretary of the association are given. 



The University Home and School League {Bui. Univ. Tex., No. 322 (1914). 

 pp. 62). — The University Home and School League, which is fostered by the 

 department of extension of the University of Texas, has for its object closer co- 

 operation of the school, the home, and the church of the community for mutual 

 improvement. Its purposes, organization, and activities are outlined. Sug- 

 gestions to the program committee and references to literature on social center 

 work and rural life are also given. 



Extension work of the Louisiana State University, A. F. Kidder (Bice 

 Jour, and South. Fanner, 17 (1914), No. ^, pp. 1, 2). — ^The author gives an 

 account of the various phases of the agricultural extension work of the uni- 

 versity. 



Boys' and girls' clubs, W. R. Habt and O. A. Mobton {Boston: Mass. Bd. 

 Apr., 1914, PP- 5^. Pl^- S). — This publication contains a brief history of the 

 boys' and girls' clubs in Massachusetts from 1908 to 1913, inclusive, lists of 

 premiums, rules governing clubs and contests, and suggestions for the organiza- 

 tion and promotion of boys' and girls' club work. 



The pig clubs of the South, B. W. Curbie (Country Gent., 79 (1914), No. 

 16, pp. 786, 787, 808, figs. 5). — An account is given of the boys' and girls' pig 

 club work in Louisiana and Georgia. 



Agricultural education in Latin America, C. D. Smith (Proc. Soc. Prom. 

 Agr. Set., 34 (1913), pp. 73-94). — The systems of agricultural education in 

 Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, and Chile are described. 



The educational system of rural Denmark, H. W. Foght (U. S. Bur. Ed. 

 Bui., No. 58 {1913), pp. 46, pis. 6). — The educational system of rural Denmark 

 ts outlined in detail as the result of a personal investigation by the author. 



Instruction in nature study is given in the first seven or eight grades. In 

 the four years after leaving the elementary school the children learn practical 

 agriculture and household duties at home or are apprenticed at recognized 

 model farms where they get the benefit of the knowledge of specialists in 

 farm science maintained in the field at state and local expense. Statistics for 

 ir>06 show that 33 per cent of all young men, and a slightly smaller number of 

 young women, of 18 years and over, attend the folk high school for a longer 

 or shorter period, while 14 per cent of the young men attend special agricultural 

 schools in addition to the agricultural studies ottered in many of the folk high 

 schools and a considerable number of young women attend the special domestic- 

 science schools. 



Most of the agricultural schools, of which there are 29 scattered throughout 

 the country, require that applicants must have spent some time at a folk high 

 school, and if lacking in practical training, must secure this at one of the 

 government-recognized model farms before they are admitted, these schools 

 teaching primarily the theory of agriculture, land surv-eying. agricultural 

 chemistry, and the other sciences which underlie the practice of agriculture. 

 There are also so-called " Husmandsskoler," organized particularly for the small 

 farmer, which combine the most valuable features of the folk high schools with 

 those of the agricultural schools and make a strong point of short courses. 

 Such subjects as bee culture, chicken raising, rabbit breeding, etc.. receive muck 

 attention. 



