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of Animal Industry of this Department and state autliorities, live stock develop- 

 ment following tick eradication, and what this Department will do to assist 

 in eradicating the tick. The syllabus is designed to aid farmers' institute and 

 other extension lecturers and is illustrated with 50 lantern slides. 



Manual training for the rural schools, L. M. Roehl (Milwaukee, Wis.: 

 Bruce Publishing Co., 1916, pp. ltd, figs. JfS). — This text for rural scliuols con- 

 sists of a set of farm and farm home woodworking problems. Each problem 

 gives lists of the material and tools required, together with a stock bill and 

 directions for making the article. 



Correspondence courses for teachers. Course III, Home economics {('or- 

 7-csp. Courses Teachers [Iowa Agr. Col.'\, Agr. Ext. Dept.. Course HI, Assign-'^. 

 1, pp. 28, figs. 5; 2, pp. SO, figs. 2; 3, pp. 26; 4, PP. SI; 5, pp. 27; 6, pp. 32, fig. 1; 

 7, pp. 35; 8, pp. 29, fig. 1). — Lessons are outlined for the use of teachers in rural 

 and graded schools on the location, ventilation, and lighting of the home, the ! 

 disposal of wastes, control of dust, care of milk and butter and other food 

 supplies, dish washing, prevention of contagious diseases, care of the sick, food i 

 principles and their uses in the body, composition and uses of various food- 

 stuffs and their value in the diet, together with recipes, preservation of food, 

 hot and cold beverages, home management, personal hygiene, serving meals, 

 and digestion. 



Home economics: Its opportunities and oblig'ations, Isabel Beviek (Srh d 

 and Soc., S (1916), No. 73, pp. 737-740). — This article treats of home economics 

 as one of the agencies in the education of women. After briefly indicating the 

 meaning and content of home economics and its possible points of contact with 

 the training of individuals, the author considers the following as the oppor- 

 tunities and obligations: (1) To teach the technique of household proces.ses, to 

 restate what was best in the old forms of family life in new terms; (2) to 

 teach the meaning of economy and the principles which underlie it; (3) to 

 liringing once again into honorable repute the business of housekeeping, to 

 apply It to the usages which obtain in other business enterprises; (4) to sup- 

 plement the training of the nurse in technique and the diagnosis of the doctor 

 by showing the value of adapting the diet to the needs of the individual; (.5) 

 to teach a new definition for art; (6) through the Smith-Lever Act, to better 

 the life in the farm home; and (7) to teach the unity of life and knowledge, 

 through schools and clubs and homes so that all will cooperate to the common 

 welfare. 



The interdependence of forest conservation and forestry education, J. W 

 TouMEY (Science, n. ser., U (1916), No. 11S2, pp. 327-537) .—The author dis- i 

 cusses the progress made in this country (1) toward forest conservation, (2) 

 in the educational propaganda, begun more than a century ago, which madej 

 possible the publi(.' ownership of approximately one-fifth of the total area of] 

 forests in the United States, and (3) in the technical training in the science] 

 and art of forestry, which had its beginnings within the past two decades. 



It is shown that in a space of 15 years, or prior to December, 1915, l,18o 

 men had been granted degrees in forestry in the 22 institutions in the United 

 States offering technical courses in forestry leatling to a degree, .\bout one- 

 half of the degrees have been undergraduate degrees given for four years of 

 collegiate work. Advanced degrees in forestry are offered by 10 institutions. 

 In April, 1915, out of 1,037 men who had then received degrees, 803 were 

 reported as actually engaged in forestry. In June, 1915, these institutions 

 offered degrees in forestry to 147 men. 



Attention is called to the overstimulation of professional training and the 

 underdevelopment of vocational instruction, even though in forestry scores of 

 foremen, guards, and rangers nre necpssnry for every professionally tralneil 



