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college, the equipment necessary to give tlie proper training, the relation of 

 training given for professional lines to that given for practical lines, and the 

 introduction of a new college course requiring each senior to take a half-year 

 course in which the principles and practice will be combined. 



College courses in the harvesting and marketing of fruits and vegetables, 

 W. G. Brieely (Proc. Soc. Hort. Sci., 10 {1913), pp. 25-30).— A course in har- 

 vesting and marketing fruits and vegetables is outlined. The work can be given 

 in one continuous course or may be divided into two separate courses. Allow- 

 ance must be made for approximately 40 lectures with the necessary time for^ 

 reviews and quizzes and at least 16 laboratory periods and time for a consider- 

 able amount of assigned reading. 



Growing prize corn, P. G. Holden {PMladelphia, 1914, PP- 48, figs. 69). — 

 This booklet has been prepared for the particular use of boys, and the text 

 and illustrations have been taken from the author's Corn Secrets (E. S. R., 25, 

 p. 34). 



Progress of agricultural education in 1912—13, F. B. Jenks and C. H. 

 Lane {Rpt. Comr. Education [U. S.}, 1913, I, pp. 211-233).— This is a review 

 for 1913 of the leading features of progress in agricultural education in this 

 country and abroad, including the agricultural education work of this Depart- 

 ment, the Graduate School of Agriculture, and educational and other con- 

 ventions. 



Agricultural education [in Latin America], E. E. Brandon (U. S. Bur. Ed. 

 Bui., No. 30 (1912), pp. 104-114, P^s. 4)- — This chapter gives an account of the 

 beginnings and present organization of agricultural instruction in Latin-Ameri- 

 can countries, expenditures for and dissimilarities in organization of their 

 agricultural colleges, their admission requirements and curriculum, grades, and 

 agricultural careers of students, number, physical equipment, courses of study, 

 and types of elementary agricultural schools, and an agricultural normal school 

 in Argentina. 



Agricultural education in the Republic of Argentina, T. Amadeo and C. 

 Vallejo (La Ensenanza Agricola en la Republica Argentina. Buenos Aires: 

 Min. Agr., 1913, pp. 312, figs. 330). — This is an account, prepared for the Inter- 

 national Exposition at Ghent, of the system of agricultural instruction and ex- 

 perimentation in Argentina, and its development beginning with the establish- 

 ment of the first practical school of agriculture in 1S23. 



Thirteenth annual general report of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction for Ireland (Dept. Agr. and Tech. Instr. Ireland, Ann. 

 Gen. Rpt., 13 (1912-13), pp. VI +363). —This is the report of the department's 

 administration and funds and on the details of its work during 1912-13, includ- 

 ing agricultural and technical instruction. 



Christchurcli Teclinical College agricultural department (Jour. Canterhury 

 Agr. and Past. Assoc, 3. scr., 2 (1914), PP- 37-39). — An account is given of the 

 theoretical and practical instruction in agriculture at this college. 



Agricultural pupil scheme, W. G. Freeman (Bui. Dept. Agr. Trinidad and 

 Tobago, 13 (1914), No. 79, pp. 89-94). — This is an outline of a scheme which 

 has been approved by the board of agriculture of Trinidad for the training of 

 students at least 16 years of age for such positions as overseers of estates. The 

 course of theoretical and practical instruction extends over three years, the first 

 two on estates managed by the department of agriculture and the third on an 

 approved private estate. The expenses are to be defrayed from the profits 

 made on the estates. The admission requirements, curriculum, and cost of the 

 scheme are given. 



Agricultural education, R. H. Rijkens (In De Nedcrl and sell e Landhouw in 

 het Tijd-vak 1813-1913. The Hague: Dept. Landb. [1913], pp. 91-130).— The 



