1917] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 793 



Canada's intellectual status and intellectual needs, A. Bakee {Proc. and 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, S. ser., 10 {1916), pp. XXXIX-LXXII).— In this dis- 

 cussion of the intellectual status and needs of the people of Canada the autlior 

 Includes a review of the extent to which technical and agricultural instruction 

 has been introduced into the various Provinces. 



Agricultural education and research in Canada, F. T. Shutt (Proc. and 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, 3. ser., 10 {1916), Sect. Ill, pp. 1-17).— The author 

 discusses the status of agriculture in Canada, the value of science in agricul- 

 ture, and the improvement of the practice of agriculture in Canada through 

 education, demonstration, and research. 



[Agricultural education and research in the Province of Quebec, 1914-15] 

 {Rpt. Min. Agr. Proc. Quebec, 1915, pp. XX+28Ji, pis. 53, figs. 8).— This report 

 on the progress in the work of the department of agriculture for the Province of 

 Quebec in 1914-15 includes an account of the werli of the agricultural and 

 domestic-science schools, experiiaent stations, and extension work under tlie 

 control of the department. 



Seport of the schools' division of tke experiiaental union, S. B. McCeeauy 

 {Ann. Rpt. Ontario Agr. and Expt. Union, 37 {1915), pp. ^9-^0). — A general 

 survey is given of the origin, purposes, aad accomplishments of the schools' 

 division of the Ontario Agricultural and Experimental Union. This division, 

 begun in 1909, is a cooperative association in education which grew out of this 

 union and the nature-study department organized as a part of Macdonald 

 Institute in 1904. 



School gardens, 1915, J. C. Magnan {Lcs Jardins Scolaires, 1915. Quebec: 

 Min. Agr., 1916, pp. 16, pis. 6; Rpt. Min. Agr. Prov. Quebec, 1915, pp. 213-227, 

 pis. 4)- — 111 this report of progress in school garden work in the Province of 

 Quebec the author discusses some difficulties met and their solutions and 

 interesting results. It is shown that the nuraber of 'pupils taking school-garden 

 work increased from 425 in 1906 to 9,308 in 1914, and the number of schools 

 having gardens from 60 in 1907 to 284 in 1914. 



The teaching of household science {Agr. Gaz. Canada, S {1916), No. 12, pp. 

 1093-1103). — This is an account of the present status of instruction in home 

 economics in the Provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, 

 and Alberta. 



Agricultural education for women {Rpt. Agr. Ed. Conf. [Gt. Brit.], 1915, 

 pp. 8Jt) . — This report on agricultural education for women in England and 

 Wales is based on an inquiry made at the request of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries. It considers (1) the conditions affecting the instruction of 

 women in agrieiilture, including the scoi)e of agi'icultural education and the 

 different classes of women for whom agricultural instruction is needed; (2) the 

 existing facilities for the insti'uction of women in agriculture, classified as 

 itinerant instruction, farm schools or institutes, agricultural and horticultural 

 colleges, and university institutions; and (3) women's agricultural institutes. 



The conference concludes that itinerant instruction should take the form of 

 organized classes rather than that of lectures, and every part of a county 

 should be covered in a definite cycle of years. The number of farm schools or 

 fixed courses of instruction should be so increased as to provide one for every 

 county or two counties. A systematic long course for women, covering all 

 branches of agricultural work (practical and scientific), should be organized at 

 one of the existing agricultural colleges. Scholarships from itinerant classes 

 to farm schools and from farm schools to collegiate institutions, as well as 

 for the daughters of the larger farmers and professional men at collegiate 

 centers, should be provided. Home economics should form part of the cur- 

 riculum in every organized course. A training course for poultry teachers 



