1917] EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 495 



AGRICULTUKAL EDUCATION. 



Report of agriculture in the high schools of Michigan, W. H. Frknih 

 (Midi. Agr. Vol.. IJept. Agr. Ed. Bui. 16 {1016), pp. 20, figs, i^).— This is a 

 report on the progress of agricultural instruction in the high schools of Mich- 

 igan. It discusses the plan of the courses, special educational features or com- 

 munity work, summer employment of the agricultural teacher, .special summer 

 projects, cooperation with the county agent, etc. The agricultural units, which 

 retiuire 2.5 per cent of the student's time, consist of botany in the ninth grade, 

 farm crops and horticulture in the tenth, animal husbandry in the eleventh, and 

 .soils and farm management in the twelfth. 



In 191.5-16, 44 high schools employed college-trained instructors, and 12 em- 

 ployed in.structors with less than college training; 14 liigh schools Jiave de- 

 veloped full four-unit cour.ses, 12 gave four units of work alternating the last 

 two year.s, and 19 gave two-unit courses. The nunilier of students enrolled in 

 agricultural .subjects was 2.574 ; 140 students graduated from 4-year courses in 

 agriculture; GOO students conducted .summer-home projects. Including the raising 

 of corn and potatoes, keeping records of a dairy herd, pruning, spraying and ren 

 ovatiug orchards, and raising poultry and swine; 1,054 conducted home-garden 

 work, and while in some places school gardens were conducted on the community 

 plan, individual home gardens are proving most .satisfactory. Fourteen in- 

 structors were employed for the 12 months in the year, and 19 gave instruction 

 in the elementary grades. 



Twelve high schools introduced the agricultural course in 191G. Among the 

 special features of community work undertid^en by various agricultural in- 

 structors may be mentioned special Saturday and evening classes for rural 

 teachers; evening classes in agriculture and chemistry for farmers; a farm 

 survey along the lines of actual conditions in farm management ; a township 

 live-stock census ; a special cour.se in dairying for farmers ; and, in cooperation 

 with the agricultural college, the distribution of pure seed to farmers, demon- 

 stration work, and the organization of horticultural societies and live-stock 

 associations. 



A list of the scliools and teachers giving instruction in ugricullure in 1916-17 

 is included. 



The work of the college of agriculture, E. B. Copeland {Philippine Agr. inid 

 Forester, 5 {1916), No. 1, pp. 36). — This is a detailed report on the work of in- 

 struction, demonstration, and investigation in botany, chemistry, entomology, 

 agricultural engineering, agronomy, and animal industry, and on the personnel, 

 land and buildings, and equipment of the college of agriculture at Los Banos. 



The Agricultural Instruction Act {Agr. Claz. Canada, S {1916), No. 9, pp. 

 776-780). — This article gi\es the text of the agreement entered into between 

 the Minister of Agriculture for Canada and the mini.ster of agriculture of each 

 of the nine Provinces of the Dominion under the provisions of the Agricultural 

 Instruction Act setting forth the appropriation to each Province and the work 

 to be undertaken for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1917. It is shown that 

 of the total appropriation of $1,000,000 nearly $100,000 will be devoted to agri- 

 cultural instruction in the rural and higher public schools, about $259,000 for 

 agi'icultural colleges and schools, $20,000 for veterinra-y colleges, and about 

 .$46,000 for v>'omen's work. 



Agricultural education and live stock improvement in Wales {Jour. lid. 

 Agr. {London], 23 {1916). No. 3, pp. 260-263).— An account is given of the de- 

 velopment of agricultural education in Wales in connection with local educa- 

 tion authorities and in the agricultural departments of the agricultural colleges 

 since 1911-12. 



