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The commission recommends that in Saskatchewan agricultural and indus- 

 trial education be amplified and extended by the use of existing agencies, viz, 

 the public, high, and normal schools, and the university, including the 

 agricultural college. It advocates (1) systematic efforts to introduce nature 

 study, school gardening, manual training, and elementary household science 

 more generally into the public schools and to provide in the moi'e advanced 

 schools instruction and training for the preparation of teachers and leaders 

 in these departments; (2) short courses in agriculture and elementary science 

 during vacation periods, where necessary, to be given in rural schools by 

 traveling expert instructors; (3) the establishment of industrial evening schools 

 in villages and towns ; (4) provision in high schools for short winter courses 

 in agriculture and instruction in advanced manual training and household 

 science and such specialized form of industrial work as may be deemed ad- 

 visable; (5) initial and annual grants and expert direction for work in public 

 and high schools in school gardening and agriculture, household science, man- 

 ual training, and related branches; (6) increased facilities for instruction in 

 school gardening and elementary agriculture, manual training, and elementary 

 household science in the provincial normal schools; (7) the establishment in 

 the university of a school of domestic science and a college of technology 

 for a corresponding development of industrial education; (8) the acceptance 

 of either agriculture or household science in lieu of physics or chemistry in 

 the examinations for third and second class teachers' diplomas and in the 

 university at the junior matriculation examination ; and (9) the appointment 

 of expert district representatives to assist the department and college of agri- 

 culture in promoting the welfare of rural communities. 



Part two deals with the supply and training of teachers, courses of study, 

 textbooks in Saskatchewan, and the consolidation of schools in the United 

 States. 



Agricultural education in New South Wales, T. E. Sedgwick (Jour. Bath 

 and West and South Counties Soc, 5. ser., 10 {1915-16), pp. 77-86).— An ac- 

 count is given of the system of agricultural instruction in New South Wales, 

 which affords an uninterrupted opportunity for students to pass successively 

 through the primary school, the Hurlstone Agricultural High School, the ex- 

 perimental farm and school, the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, and the 

 university, where the degree of B. S. in Agriculture is awarded, thus qualify- 

 ing for a Government inspectorship or other appointment. 



Agricultural education in the State of Victoria, Australia, C. K. Harrison 

 (Addresses and Proc. Nat. Ed. Assoc, 53 (1915), pp. 1154-1156).— This is a 

 summarized statement of a.^ricultural teaching in the primary state schools, 

 technical schools, agricultural colleges and experimental farms, and extension 

 teaching. 



Gardening and farming in the Philippine schools, N. H. Foreman (Ad- 

 dresses and Proe. Nat. Ed. Assoc., 53 (1915). pp. 1156-1159). — The following 

 phases of agricultural instruction in the Philippine schools are briefly de- 

 scribed : School gardening, special food campaigns, settlement farm schools, 

 farm schools, and agricultural schools. 



The development of the Philippine public-school system, in cooperation 

 with the home and in relation to industrial conditions, H. H. Miller (Ad- 

 dresses and Proc. Nat. Ed. Assoc, 53 (1915), pp. 1116-1121).— The growth of 

 the system, the courses of study and their aim, including school gardening, 

 farming, housekeeping, and household arts, and how the homes are reached, 

 are discussed. 



Rural science and school gardening, W. H. Johns (Dept. Agr. and Tech. 

 Instr. Ireland Jour., 16 (1916), No. 3, pp. 441-454, pis. .^).— The author dis- 



