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In a school poulation of 121 thero is an attendance of 42 nonresident stu- 

 dents. Forty of the 43 high school boys are now stndying agricnlture, and 4 of 

 these had previously graduated or had left the high school. 



The agricultural course is arranged as follows: Ninth grade — general and 

 agricultural botany, a half year each; tenth grade — horticulture and field crops, 

 half year each; eleventh grade — live stock, daii-ying, and poultry, entire year; 

 twelfth grade — soils, one-half year, and farm management and farm mechanics, 

 half year. In response to a strong demand from the surrounding country the 

 school also gave a farmers' short course of one evening lecture each week for 

 10 weeks, to an average attendance of 25. 



Some conclusions drawn from the year's observations are that the practical 

 applications of the agricultural instruction have greatly increased the interest 

 in the high school and have "steadied" the work of the entire school; that 

 agricultural instruction gives point and value to all other high-school work in 

 science, arithmetic, and language; that it can be successfully given under 

 ordinary high school conditions, and that it has furnished at least as much 

 training in thought and judgment as any of the traditional studies in the 

 curriculum. 



Report of the Royal Agricultural Academy of Sweden, 1908, H. Juhlin- 

 Dannfelt (A'. Laiidthr. Akad. Handl. och Tidskr., ^8 (1909), No. 3, pp. 111- 

 157).- — An account of the work of the Academy and its various departments 

 during 1908. 



Instruction in forestry in Sweden (Yttranden i Anledninri af Betankundc. 

 Stockholm, 1909, pp. 160). — This is the report of a committee of experts 

 selected by the Agricultural Department of Sweden to consider and report upon 

 the best arrangement of forestry instruction in that country. 



Agriculture for teachers, C. Seltensperger {Le Livrc Agricole des Institu- 

 ieurs. Paris, 1907, pp. XI+480, figs. J77).— This is a text-book of agriculture 

 for the use of teachers in normal schools, high schools, and colleges, and 

 attempts to set forth in methodical order the facts of current agricultural prac- 

 tice and the reasons for them. It consists of 5 main divisions; (1) General 

 agriculture, dealing chiefly with the soil, drainage, irrigation, fertilizers, etc. ; 

 (2) special crops, their diseases and the remedies to be applied; (3) vine culture, 

 the choice of stocks, propagation, pruning, cultivation, fertilization, and the 

 making of wine; (4) live stock, including the principles of feeding and im- 

 provement of domestic animals and their . products ; and (5) rural economy 

 and legislation, with a discussion of the organization and value of agricultural 

 societies and of systematic farm accounting. 



Catechism of agriculture, T. C. Atkeson and D. W. Working (Morgantoirn, 

 W. Va., [1909^, pp. 2.'i). — This little pamphlet contains a concise series of ques- 

 tions and answers classified under the heads of scope of the sub.iect of agricul- 

 ture, soil management, plant management, and animal management. It is 

 stated that care has been used " to make every question suggestive and every 

 answer accurate and intelligible." 



Elementary agriculture, F. Perai.ta (San Jose, Costa Rica, 1909, pp. 226-\- 

 Vf, fills, 'i.')). — An elementary text-book of agriculture comprising 605 qu^^tious 

 and an.swers on the study of plants, soils, and fertilizers. An appendix includes 

 32 simple experiments demonstrating some of the lessons, and tables giving the 

 chemical conii)osition of different materials and of fertilizers. 



Text-book of Egyptian agriculture, edited by G. P. Foadkn and F. Fletcher 

 (Cairo: Govt., 1908, vol. 1, pp. 320, figs. 63).— This is the first of a two-volume 

 series to be issued by the Egyptian ministry of education, intended primarily for 

 the use of students but dealing quite fully with the general conditions of agri- 



