290 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



The State farmers' institute director is to arrange farmers' institutes at these 

 schools and secure the help of their faculties in conducting institutes at other 

 places. 

 ' Several of the schools are planning to open in January. 1907. 



The farmers' institutes in the United States, 1906, J. Hamilton ([/. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Offlce Expt. .S'fo.s. Hpt. IIIOG, pp. SOl-Sol).— Thin is the annual 

 report of the Farmers' Institute Specialist of this Office for 190G. It includes a 

 discussion of the progress and problems of the institute movement, an account 

 of the annual meeting of the American Association of Farmers' Institute Work- 

 ers, a discussion of the agricultural education extension movement, and detailed 

 reports and statistics on farmers' institutes in the different States and 

 Territories. 



Market-day lectures, 1905-6 {Chelmsford : County Tech. Labs., pp. 136).— 

 These are reports of addresses to farmers delivered at Chelmsford and Col- 

 chester during the winter months. They relate to various phases of animal 

 husbandry, dairying, crop production, poultry keeping, the uses of manure, and 

 farm management. 



Introduction of elementary agriculture into schools, A. C. True ( V. 8. 

 Dept. Agr. Yearbook, 1D06. pp. 151-16 'f). — An account is given of the growth of 

 interest in the teaching of elementary agriculture in public schools as indicated 

 by the attitude of men of prominence, farmers' organizations, school officers 

 and teachers, and by x-ecent State legislation. Progress in the formulation of 

 courses in elementary agriculture, the preparation of text-books and manuals, 

 the development of training courses for teachers, the organization of agricul- 

 tural schools, and the number of pujiils studying agriculture is reviewed and 

 some suggestions are made concerning ways in which farmers may help the 

 schools. 



The training of the teachers of domestic science, Mary E. Marsden {Rpt. 

 Brit. Assoc. Adv. >^ci., 1906. pp. 78//-780). — ^In this paper the author states that 

 students who have had a good secondary education are those best fitted for 

 special training in domestic science, but that the ideal preparation for a domes- 

 tic science course is a science degree followed by a special training in domestic 

 science. The following subjects are briefly discussed : Time and scope of train- 

 ing, suggested scheme of training, including arts and science, instruction and 

 practice in method of teaching, including (1) the elements of psychology, the 

 study of class management, and school organization, (2) blackboard drawing 

 and elocution, and (8) actual practice in class teaching, and additional aids to 

 the training of domestic science teachers, such as a reading room and reference 

 library, literary and debating societies, and reading clubs. 



The duty of education authorities to the nation respecting the teaching 

 of domestic subjects, Margaret E. Pillow (Rpt. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1906, 

 p. 786).— An abstract of a paper re'ad at the annual meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science in August. 1900. at York. 



School training for home duties of women, A. Smitiiells (Rpt. Brit. Assoc. 

 Adv. <S'f/., 1006. pp. 7Sl-7S-'i). — This i)aper is a plea for the development of a 

 science of the household free alike from the pedantry of formal science and 

 from the unprofitable memorizing of dietetic statistics. The author has found 

 it possible to arrange a " course of science lessons in which scientific discipline 

 and scientific method can be inculcated by simple experimental work, based 

 entirely on matters of the household and of daily life; where the information 

 ac(iuired is truly useful knowle<lge, and where the minds of the pupils are 

 awakened to the fact that the household is a laboratory of applied science that 

 may constantly engage the intelligence," 



