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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Report on agricultural education in the United States, E, Howard {Jour. 

 Bd. Agr. [London], i.'/ (1908), So. 10, Sup., pp. 61). — This report was pre- 

 pared by the Councillor of the British Embassy at Washington at the request of 

 the committee on agricultural education of the Board of Agriculture of Great 

 Britain. It includes briefs of Federal legislation for the establishment of agri- 

 cultural and industrial colleges, statistics of the agricultural colleges and ex- 

 perimeut stations, and descriptions, with liberal quotations from courses of 

 study, of leading colleges and secondary schools of agriculture in the United 

 States, as well as some discussion of agriculture in elementary schools. Liberal 

 excerpts are taken from the progress reports of this Office on agricultui-al 

 education and other similar publications. Two appendixes contain a summary 

 of the laws passed since 1905 in regard to agricultural education and a memo- 

 randum of legislation relating to agricultural education by the State legislatures 

 in 1007. 



Centennial celebration of the founding' of the University of Tennessee, 1907 

 {Univ. Tcnn. Rcc, 10 {1907), Xo. 7, />/>. 79). — Addresses given at the exercises 

 commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the foimding of the Univer- 

 sity of Tennessee, June 1-4. 1007. 



The education of foresters, B. E. Fernow {Canad. Forestry Jour., 3 {1907), 

 I\o. Ji, pp. l.'iS-151). — This paper contains a discussion of the science of educa- 

 tion for foresters and deals briefly with three plans, one providing merely for 

 the work of one professor in a college who would teach all that a forester 

 would be likely to be called upon to ai)ply at the present time, another plan 

 expanding on the practical side to iuclude a training school which would lay 

 stress on manipulation and operation, and a third providing for a full college 

 course which should in no way be inferior to the best forestry course in Ger- 

 many. Taking up the third plan, which is the one adopted in the course at the 

 University of Toronto, the author discusses in considerable detail the essential 

 features of such a course, including instruction in botany, geology, zoology, and 

 other related sciences and instruction and practice in the different branches of 

 forestry. The technical forestry courses at Toronto are given in detail with 

 the hours allotted to each. 



Household science at the University of Illinois, Isabel Bevier {IU. Agr., 

 12 {1908), No. 5, pp. 127-129). — A history of the household science movement 

 at the University of Illinois. Of the 28 students who have graduated from this 

 department, 7 are teaching household .science in public schools, 3 in other than 

 public schools, 4 in universities, 1 is a university laboratory assistant, 4 are 

 teaching studies other than household science, 1 is manager of a lunch room, 1 is 

 taking graduate work, 3 are married, and 4 are at home. 



Agriculture in secondary schools, T. F. Hunt {Penn. School Jour., 56 {1908), 

 Ao, 8, pp. 328-335). — This is an address given before the High School Depart- 

 ment of the State Educational Association of Pennsylvania, December 2G, 1907. 

 The author discusses secondary education and its value in special and short 

 courses in colleges of agriculture, in secondary schools of agriculture in connec- 

 tion with colleges, and in special agricultural schools as in Georgia, Alabama, 

 and Wisconsin, the Davis bill and what it would mean to Pennsylvania, and 

 the introduction of agriculture into public high schools. He also reviews the 

 reports of the committee on instruction in agriculture cf the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations on secondary courses 

 in agriculture, and gives liberal quotations from two of these reports. 



Short lessons in agriculture brought to the young man on the farm, A. J. 

 Bill {III Farmers' Inst. Bill. 10, pp. -'/O, figs. 11). — This is a report of the second 



