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2SG.O0 francs and miscellaneous 141.55, a total of 428.20 francs. The calculated 

 average profit, therefore, amounted to 49.05 francs i>er hectare. The results of 

 the investigations are tabulated and discussed in detail. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Country life education, A. C. True (Ann. Rpts. Bd. Af/r. Del., n. set:, 5-6 

 (lD0)-6), pp. .'{l--')0). — An address, followed by a discussion, made before the 

 agricultural conference held at Dover, Del.. December 18 and 19. 190<i. in which 

 a brief outline is given of a system of agricultural education beginning with the 

 common school and going up to the high school and into the college, with the ex- 

 periment station back of these to obtain the new knowledge that is needed. In 

 the opinion of the speaker public education should be supported primarily by the 

 State, but. local communities should be taxed sufBciently to maintain an acitve 

 Interest in educational matters. 



Agricultural education in Delaware, 11. IIaywakd [Ann. Rpts. Bd. A[/r. Del., 

 n. ser.. o-G {1905-6). pp. 50-61). — This paper, read at the agricultural confer- 

 ence noted above, discusses briefly the advantages of agricultural education, 

 how agricultural education takes the drudgery out of farm life, competition in 

 agriculture, agricultural conditions to-day, what is to be done in Delaware in 

 the way of education and experimentation as shown by a careful study of 

 what is being done in other States, what Delaware has done for her agricul- 

 tural interests, the farmers' institute, the equipment of the agricultural depart- 

 ment of Delaware College as compared with that of the department of mechanic 

 arts, the needs of the agricultural department of the college and station, and 

 particularly the need of a farm. 



Report of the committee on children's gardens for the year 1906, 

 H. S. Adams (Trans. Mass. Hurt. Soe.. 1906. II. pp. 176-216. pis. 7).— This re- 

 port contains brief accounts of the Children's Garden Conference held Decem- 

 ber 15, 11X)6, in Boston ; school garden, school grounds, and children's home 

 garden competitions ; children's exhibitions ; and abstracts of addresses made 

 at the conference, as follows : The Educational Value of School Gardens, by 

 II. G. Martin, Boston ; Horticultiu-al Education for School Garden Teachers, 

 F. A. Waugh. Amherst: School Garden Work and the Normal School. W. A. 

 I'aldwin. H.vannis ; Children's Gardens and the Public, F. M. Marsh. Fair- 

 haven : and The School Farm at De Witt Clinton Park. H. G. Parsons. New 

 York City. Reports are given on the South End industrial school garden, 

 lioxbury ; Orphans' Home garden. New Bedford ; South Xatick garden club ; 

 Wellesley village school gardens; Cobbett School garden, Lynn; and school 

 gardens. Fairhaven : on the improvement of the Tracy School grounds. Lynn, 

 and on children's home gardens. A list of prizes and gratuities awarded in 

 19nt; is added. 



Hints for school gardens, A. II. Kirby (Imp. Dept. A [jr. West Indies Pant- 

 phUt. .}>!, 19in, pp. 56. dgm. 1). — This is a revision of a pamphlet published in 

 1!K)1, and contains general instructions as to size of plats, discipline, distances 

 for planting and period of growth, directions for box and pot cultivation, eight 

 preliminary lessons in the garden, special instructions for growing different 

 vegetables, and directions for budding, grafting, and pruning. Practically 

 every primary school in the West Indies now includes elementary agriculture 

 in its curriculum, and this pamphlet is intended for the use of the teachers in 

 these sr-hools. 



Spring in the school garden, Susan B. Sipe (Atlantie Ed. .Jour.. 2 (1907). 

 A'o. ,S. /)/). 22-2 '1. fit/x. 5). — Suggestions are given for planting the school garden, 

 conducting the work, and correlating it with other instruction. 



