692 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The organization of agriculture by the department of agriculture in 

 Ireland and its application to the conditions of the Bombay Presidency, 

 W. W. Smart {Agr. Jour. India, 9 (WlJf), No. i, pp. 23-37).— In this paper, 

 read at the Provincial Agricultural Conference held at Poena in September, 

 1913, the acting director of agriculture of the Bombay Presidency describes the 

 work of the agricultural branch of the Department of Agriculture and Tech- 

 nical Instruction for Ireland in its cooperation with the 33 county councils and 

 the scheme under which the funds for agriculture are administered, and out- 

 lines his ideas as to how this system could be adopted iu the Bombay 

 Presidency. 



Report of the department of agricultural education, W. H. French {Antt. 

 Rpt. Sec. Bd. Agr. Mich., 52 {1913), pp. 59-62). — In this report of the profe.ssor 

 of agricultural education of the Michigan College attention is called to the 

 teaching of pedagogical subjects leading to teachers' certificates for 15 hours 

 each week during the year to a class of 10.5 students and to the teaching of 

 agriculture by graduates of the institution in 20 high schools. The high-school 

 agricultural course is a 4-unit course elected by from 10 to 50 per cent of the 

 boys. Eighteen 1-week courses for farmers were held in connection with the 

 high schools, the attendance ranging from 20 to 150. During the spring the 

 organization of 30 boys' and girls' clubs in connection with rural schools was 

 effected, and a pamphlet of instructions and projects has been distributed. 

 About 150 readers have taken advantage of the college extension reading course. 



Schools of agriculture, mechanic arts, and homemaking, L. S. Hawkins 

 (Univ. State N. Y. Bill. 5'f3 (1913), pp. 20). — This bulletin contains a discussion 

 of schools of agriculture as a part of the public school system, qualifications of 

 teachers, rooms and eyuipmeut. tyi)es of schools of agriculture, mechanic arts, 

 and home uinkiug; and an outline of the procedure in oi^anizing them, project 

 work in agriculture and summer work of agricultural teachers, suggested 

 courses in agriculture and home making for intermediate and high schools of 

 agriculture, and .'i list of general reference books relating to agriculture and 

 rural life. 



Agriculture in the high school, I.. S. Hawkins (Univ. State N. Y. Bui. 563 

 (1914), PP- 52. ?''*'• 5, figs. 9). — The author discusses methods of instruction, 

 how to keep a record of pupils' and teachers' work, equipment needed, field 

 trips, pupils' notebooks, recitations, the shop, and the purpose and equipment 

 of the farm mecbanics wt)rk in the high school. A classified list of agricultural 

 books is given. 



The New Hamphire type of reconstructed rural high school, H. A. Brown 

 (Vocational Ed., 3 (1914), ^'o- 5, pp. 321-331, figs. 5). — In this article the author 

 describes the courses in agriculture and home economics which are used in 15 

 New Hampshire high schools iu rural sections iu which agriculture is the 

 predominating industry. 



State-aided vocational agricultural education (Ann. Rpt. Bd. Ed. [M<iss.], 

 77 (1912-13), pp. 246-261). — This report of progress made in vocational training 

 in agriculture shows, that 77 pupils carried on home project work as compared 

 with 69 in 1912, that 30 pupils — 5 from each of the 6 centers where agricul- 

 tural project work and study were in operation in 1913 — earned from farm 

 work, in connection with good standing in the class room, $9,728.03, and that 

 the number admitted to such training for the 1914 school year is 266. A 

 working agreement has been made by which each instructor is becoming the 

 local representative of the extension service of the Massachusetts College and 

 of this Department for investigations and advisory work among the farmers 

 in his vicinity. The instructor of the extension service has been appointed 

 state leader. Statistical tables are Included. 



