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completo rotunis, ;is fjir as they (■(luKl Ix' soc-nred. of tlu> acreage ami yields of 

 crops, nuiiiber of live stock and inipleiiients, tnuisfers of land, and other data 

 relating to agriculture for British India, and volume 2 similar data fur the 

 native states. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education including nature study and school gardens, J. R. 

 Jevvkm, {Hiir. of Ed. \l . i<.\. HXH. Bui. .i. y>/>. I'lO). — This Imlletin ]iresents an 

 unusually comprehensive account of the provisions for instruction in agricul- 

 ture and related subjects in the United States and foreign countries, but with- 

 especial reference to conditions in North America. The author has endeavored 

 to give a good general idea of the present status of agricultural education of 

 different grades, and has also discussed at some length the advantages of agri- 

 cultural education. The bulletin contains a bibliography of 123 references and 

 an appendix containing a form employed in the Province of Nova Scotia for the 

 recording of nature observations by school children. 



Earning while learning to earn, F. H. Hall {t^chool Xeics and Pract. Ed., 

 2 J {11)01), yo. ,}, yj/>. Liil, ISO). — This is an argument against "taking a young 

 man out of useful activity for 4, 6, or S years to get him ready foi: useful ac- 

 tivity," and in favor of applying to agricultural college courses the plan in- 

 augurated by the University of Cincinnati in the College of Eugiueeriug in 190G 

 which invohes cooperation with large mechanical and electrical manufacturing 

 companies in Cincinnati and vicinity. Each of the cooperating firms permits 

 students in pairs to pursue 6-year engineering courses at the university during 

 alternate weeks, one student of each pair being in turn in the university a week 

 while the other is in the factory. This alternation goes on during the eight 

 and one-half mouths of the university year, and during the remainder of the 

 year all student a])prentices are employed constantly at the factory. 



The writer asks if it is not possible and practicable to arrange a somewhat 

 similar scheme whereby students will be able to earn their way through col- 

 lege and at the same time secure a better training in the practice of agricul- 

 ture than at present. 



Training at the new State School of Agriculture at St. Lawrence University, 

 K. C. Davis {CorneU Count ri/inan, .7 (1 907),. No. 2, jip. J/O, ///). — A description 

 of the subjects taught in the curriculum of this school with special reference to 

 agriculture and domestic science. 



Report of the agricultural section of the University of Montevideo, A. 

 Backhaus and J. V, Diaz {Rev. Secc. Agron. Univ. Montevideo, 1907, No. 1, pp. 

 2HS, pi. /. fifjs. 7. plan 1). — This report includes among other things a plan and 

 (It'sciiption of the experimental field of the university, an account of the estab- 

 lishment, organization, and work of the agricultural section of the university, 

 addresses at the laying of the cornerstone in February, 190G, ajid detailed pro- 

 grannnes for the work in the following courses: Itural economy, general and 

 agricultural chemistry, botany and vegetable pathology, general technology and 

 agricultural industry, agriculture, rural engineering and surveying, climatology 

 and meteoi'ctlogy, and political economy. 



The new Royal Imperial Agricultural, Educational, and Research Insti- 

 tute at Spalato, K. Fhkmann {Land u. /'or.s/ic. IntrrriclitN Ztfj., 20 {1900), 

 No. 3-'i. pp. 2n-2.{.',, fiij. I). — This is a descrii)tion of the reorganized Agricul- 

 tural Chemical Ex]»eriment Station at Spalato, dealing with the buildings and 

 eqnii)nient of the institute, the rules governing it and the practical and theoreti- 

 cal instruction, and giving the course of study in consider.-ible detail. 



Doctor Robertson's work for the training of Canadian farmers, G. Ilks 

 {Amcr. Mo. Rev. of Reviews, 3G {1907), No. 21',, pp. 570-58',. fiijs. '.)).— X brief 



