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much attention is being given to dairy instruction in Illinois high schools, by 

 O. H. Keltner. For 1913, abstracts are given of papers on the Introduction of 

 Agriculture in High Schools, by W. L. Eilienberry ; A Course in Animal Hus- 

 bandry, by R. R. Snapp ; Country Life Clubs, by G. W. Brown ; and A Course 

 in Soils for Secondary Schools, by J. W. Morgan. For 1914, papers are given 

 on Extension Work for the High School, by L. F. Fulwiler, describing the 

 extension vi'ork of the Mt. Pulaski Township High School ; Collection and 

 Organization of Suggestions for Teaching High School Agriculture, by I. A. 

 Madden ; and the Differentiatioa of Fundamentals and Accessories in the 

 Content of High School Agriculture, by R. Muckelroy. 



The proceedings of the home economics section include for 1912 a report of 

 the executive committee on the revision of the syllabus for the grades and 

 high school, including a summary of the time and place given to domestic 

 science in high school curricula, and a discussion of The Teaching of Millinery 

 in the High School, by Edith Welty. For 1913, suggestions are given by Miss 

 Helena M. Pincomb as the result of a study in values or the evolution of 

 domestic science, and abstracts of papers on The Principles of Natural Science 

 Fundamental to the Teaching of Domestic Science in the High School, by Miss 

 Mary Moore; The Method of Teaching Principles and Experiments, by Miss 

 Thomas ; and Art Principles and Suggestions for Their Application, by Miss 

 Mary B. Hill. For 1914, a repoi't is given from the executive committee, 

 including outlines adopted by the section, as to the first four lessons in sewing 

 for the fifth grade and the first four lessons in cooking and housekeeping for the 

 seventh grade, and a paper on The Correlation of Drawing and Design with 

 Domestic Arts in the Home Arts Course at New Trier Township High School, 

 by Miss Olive L. Grover. 



Education as it affects agriciilture, C. Turnor {Jour. Cent, and Assoc. Cham- 

 bers Agr. and Agr. Rec. [London], n. scr., 5 {1916), No. 1,2, pp. 93-91).— This is 

 a report on the question of education in its I'elation to agriculture with special 

 reference to the problem of how to increase the annual output of skilled culti- 

 vators of and workers on the land, presented by the education committee of the 

 Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture of Great Britain at a meeting 

 held July 11, 1916. 



Attention is called to the fact that 50 years ago the number of men working 

 on the land in the United Kingdom was greater by 1,000,000 than it is to-day, 

 and to the concurrent steady decline in the production of the land. The present 

 status of elementary, intermediate, and advanced agricultural education, and the 

 training of teachers, is briefly reviewed. The committee recommends that the 

 instruction of the elementary schools be made more practical and more truly based 

 upon surrounding life ; that new schools be established similar to the centralized 

 continuation day schools existing in Canada, as well as a system of lower grade 

 instruction centers with courses that would review, complement, and give a 

 more directly vocational bearing to the practical work already done in the schools 

 for boys and girls, a new type of farm school for boys and girls between 13 and 

 38 years of age, to continue the instruction from the elementary school and defi- 

 nitely prepare them for settling on the land either in the United Kingdom or 

 in the British Dominions, and farm lads' clubs; that definite measures should be 

 taken to interest the children in town schools in country life and to indvice more 

 poor-law children to become interested in the cultivation of the land ; th;it as 

 far as possible all reformatories and industrial schools should have farms at- 

 tached and the pupils more directly encouraged to study agriculture ; that contin- 

 uation instruction should be made compulsory ; and that training should be de- 

 veloped to enable country children to enter the teaching profession. 



