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Students wishing to become government experts in agricultural subjects may 

 spend one or more years in study and research at the Royal Veterinary and 

 Agricultural Institute at Copenhagen. Strong schools of household economics 

 are maintained for the women. " The most important task performed by educa- 

 tionists in Denmark has been to impart a remarkably large store of culture 

 without giving the people a contempt for work with the hands." 



Schools for fruit growing, H. W. Harris {TJ. S. Bur. Ed. Bui., No. 54 {1913), 

 pp. 66-75). — An account is given, by the consul general at Frankfort-on-the- 

 Main, of the administration, buildings and equipment, curriculum, etc., of the 

 Grand Ducal School for Fruit Growing at Oppenheim-am-Rheiu, and of the 

 Provincial School for Fruit Growing at Kreuznach. 



Nature study, I. L. Kandel (In Elementary Education m England With 

 Special Reference to London, Liverpool, and Manchester. U. 8. Bur. Ed. Bui., 

 No. 57 (1913), pp. 56-59). — An account is given of the nature study work in 

 elementary schools of England, which includes the study of plants, trees, flowers, 

 and animal life. 



Continuation schools; Short courses for colleges, normals, and high 

 schools, A. W. Nolan (Agr. Col. Ext. Univ. III. [Circ.], 1914, Jan., pp. 16, 

 figs. 2). — The courses in agriculture, English, hygiene and good health, history 

 and civics, business arithmetic, and household science outlined in this circular 

 have been successfully given in a few schools. For a beginning a maximum 

 length of six weeks is advised for these courses, which are intended for young 

 men and women and adults of the community who have no prospects for a 

 complete high school cour.se. 



A manual of agriculture for the eighth grade, A. M. Richardson ( Wash. 

 (State) Dept. Ed. Bui. 21 {1914), pp. 27).— This manual is intended to form 

 the basis for the examination in agriculture for the eighth grade in the schools 

 of the State of Washington, in which agriculture is required by the state board 

 of education. Forty-nine exercises are outlined including practically every 

 phase of agriculture. It is stated that if possible they should be studied accord- 

 ing to seasons. 



Studies of commercial fertilizers, B. M. Davis {Nature- Study Rev., 10 

 {1914), No. 4i PP- 122-129). — Two exercises which should be within the capacity 

 of the seven'th and eighth grade pupils are presented, viz., (1) estimating the 

 value of a commercial fertilizer, and (2) calculating the amomits of fertilizer 

 ingredients in the home mixing of fertilizers and in estimating comparative 

 values of fertilizers. 



Weed collections for schools, F. J. Pipal {Purdue Univ. Dept. Agr. Ext. 

 Bui. 27 {1913), pp. 12, figs. 8). — Directions for collecting, preserving, and 

 mounting weeds, and suggestions to teachers of studies of weeds that may be 

 made in connection with this work are given, as well as a list of the worst 

 Indiana weeds. 



List of workers in. subjects pertaining to agriculture and home econom- 

 ics in the U. S. Department of Agriculture and in the state agricultural 

 colleges and experiment stations {U. S. Dept. Agr., List of Workers in U. S. 

 Agr., 1914, pp. 90). — This is an organization list of workers along these lines, 

 and includes in the case of this Department brief stateiaents as to organization 

 and scope of its various branches. 



