AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 393 



A. C. Le Cocq (Rev. Agron. [Portu(/(il], 9 (1911), No. 1-6, pp. U-9^)-—ln this 

 article the author discusses the attributes, utility, and ispecial features of agri- 

 cultural education. He concludes (1) that in a general way the essential aim 

 of this instruction should be to prepare and adapt the agricultural population 

 of the country to the rural life and to the successful development of the agri- 

 cultural industry; (2) that it should comprise rural elementai-y, professional, 

 technical, and higher or scientific, special and itinerant instruction for adults, 

 and normal agricultural instruction. The provisions of the law of December 21, 

 1901, with reference to agricultural instruction now in force are stated, from 

 which it appears that the present organization corresponds almost completely 

 with the plan outlined by the author with the exception that the itinerant instruc- 

 tion is providetl for as a secondaiy function of the regional agronomes or the 

 experiment stations, and no provision is made for the normal agricultural 

 instruction. 



Correlation of industrial and academic subjects in rural schools, Ella (5. 

 Agnew (Hampton Leaflets, 6 (J 912), No. 6, pp. S). — This leaflet has been com- 

 piled for the use of rural teachers, especially those in whose schools canning 

 clubs are to be organized. The author describes the preparation of the cold 

 frame and suggests how the growing of tomatoes may be correlated with the 

 work in manual training, language, composition, spelling, drawing, arithmetic, 

 soils in relation to agriculture, and physiology. 



Forestry in agriculture, E. R. Jackson (Vocational Ed., 1 (1912), No. S, 

 pp. 18Jf-192, figs. 5). — An outline is here given of a one month's course in ele- 

 mentary forestry, given last spring in the Baltimore County Agricultural High 

 School as a part of the course in farm crops. The course included recitations, 

 field trips to a nearby woodlot, and studies of forest and woodlot conditions in 

 the vicinity. 



Forestry in geography, E. R. Jackson (Scfiool Sci. and Math., 12 (1912), 

 No. Jf, pp. 211-211). — In this address, which was delivered at the 1911 session 

 of the summer school of the University of A'^irginia, the meaning of geography, 

 distribution and character of forests in the United States, national forests and 

 national parks, the influence of forests upon topography, relations of forests to 

 commerce, and the lesson of conservation, are considered. 



The text-book of agricultural education and rural life: Agricultural words 

 (Columbus, Ohio: Assoc. Adv. Agr. Ed. [1912], pp. 20). — This is a list of words 

 commonly used in the teaching and practice of agriculture, and is intended to 

 form the basis for the agricultural spelling contests conducted under the 

 auspices of the Ohio Association for the Advancement of Agi'icultural Teaching. 



A practical course in botany, Eliza F. Andrews (New Yorlc, Cincinnati, and 

 Chicago [1911], pp. IX +374, P^^- 15, figs. 511). — In preparing this high school 

 text-book of botany the author's aim was " to bring the study of botany into 

 closer touch with the practical business of life by stressing its relations with 

 agriculture, economics, and, in certain of its aspects, with sanitation." 



The materials selected for experiment and illustration are those which are 

 familiar and easily obtained, largely of the common cultivated kinds of plants. 

 The study begins with the seed, follows with germination and growth, and then 

 proceeds with roots, stems, and the other parts of the plant, the response of the 

 plant to its surroundings, closing with a chapter on cryptogams and a very 

 brief consideration of systematic botanj\ 



The book contains numerous practical questions, many suggestions for field 

 work, and outlines for S6 experiments. 



Experiments with soils, J. W. Hungate (Dept. Agr. State Normal School 

 [Cheney, Wash.], Bui. A, No. 1, 1912, pp. 16, figs. 3).— This bulletin has been 

 prepared to assist the rural teacher in presenting in a very elementary way 



