AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 1193 



annual n)eetinj: of the Grout Encanii)nient and Farm School at Keillor Park 

 stock farm near Winchester, 111., Au^nst 20-31, 1907. The various features of 

 instruction are described in considerable detail. 



Report of the nature study department, S. B. McCready (Ann. Rpi. Ontario 

 A (jr. Col. and Expt. Farm, 33 {1007), pp. 264-2116). — ^An account is given of the 

 course in nature study and elementary agriculture, the school gardens, the 

 summer class in agriculture, domestic science and manual training at the 

 Macdouald Institute, teachers' conventions, visitors, special lecturers, etc., train- 

 ing of teachers in elementary agriculture, training of teachers elsewhere, and 

 agricultural high schools. A proposed course iu' elementary agriculture for 

 teachers, to cover the qualifications required by the Macdonald Institute, is 

 outlined. Ontario is endeavoring to solve partially the problem of introducing 

 agriculture into the rural schools by giving agricultural instruction in the 

 high schools, such instruction being now given in the high schools at Essex, 

 Gait, Collingwood, Lindsay, Morrisburg, and Perth. 



Outdoor art for the country school, O. J. Kern (School Neivs and Pract. Ed., 

 21 (190S), No. 7, pp. 305-307, figs. 3, dgm. 1). — The author, in discussing plant- 

 ing plans for country school grounds, gives some attention to the principles of 

 planting, and tells what to plant in the way of annuals, perennials, vines, shrubs 

 and trees, and how to care for these after planting. 



Our school garden, Jessie P. Learoyd (Jour. Ed. [Boston], 67 (1908), No. 9, 

 pp. 233-235, fig. 1). — An account of the school garden work at the Salem 

 (Massachusetts) State Normal School in 1907. The books found useful are 

 mentioned, a chronological summary is given of the work of the year, and this 

 is followed l)y some notes on the educational value of this work. • 



Work of the Cleveland Home Garden Association (Ann. Rpt. Home Gard. 

 Assoc. [Cleveland'l, 8 (1907), pp. 31, figs. IS, dgm. 1). — This report contains a 

 discussion of the value of gardens for children and details concerning the work 

 of the year in seed distribution, lectures, school gardens, flower shows, branch 

 associations, botanical gardens, school grounds, vacant lots, and training 

 gardens. 



International children's school farm league (Internat. Children's School 

 Farm League Ann. Rpt.. 1 (1907), pp. 19, pis. 9). — This report contains an 

 account of the organization and purpose of the league, a description of the 

 children's school farm at the Jamestown Exposition and the work done by the 

 children on the farm, and a few extracts from the children's diaries giving 

 their viewpoint. 



Agriculture, domestic art, and manual training without funds or equip- 

 ment, E. C. Bishop (Addresses and Proc. Nat. Ed. Assoc, 45 (1907), pp. 

 1075-1084). — An address given before the National Education Association in 

 1907, dealing mainly with the work of a number of schools in Nebraska where 

 considerable industrial work has been carried on at the homes of pupils under 

 the supervision and direction of teachers. 



Proceedings of the twelfth annual meeting of the American Association of 

 Farmers' Institute "Workers, edited by W. H. Beal and J. Hamilton (TJ. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Bui. 199, pp. 7.9).— This is a detailed account of the 

 proceedings of the meeting held at Washington. D. C, October 23-24, 1907, 

 which has been previously noted (E. S. R.. 19, \\. 297). 



California State Farmers' Institute at the University Farm, Davisville, 

 W. T. Clarke (California Sta. Circ. 34, pp. 3). — A schedule of exercises for the 

 California State Farmers' Institute held at the University Farm, October 29-31, 

 1907. 



