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them are now in existence, viz, the School of Agriculture of Sainte-Anne-de-ia- 

 Pocati^re, founded in 1859, the Oka Agricultural Institute at La Trappe, founded 

 in 1S93, and the Macdonald College of Agriculture, founded in 1907. 



Agricultural equipment in public schools, J. E. McLabty, R. P. Steeves, 

 J. B. Dandeno, a. W. Cocks, and J. W. Gibson (Agr. Gaz. Canada, 4 {1917), 

 No. 8, pp. 699-705, figs. 3). — Suggestions with reference to equipment necessary 

 for agricultural instruction in the public schools are given by officials in charge 

 of such instruction in the Provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, 

 Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. 



School agriculture and community service, F. E. Heald {Training School 

 Quart., 4 {1917), No. 2, pp. 128-1.30).— The author, who is working in collabo- 

 ration with H. C. Hoover, suggests a plan for making school agriculture count in 

 community food production. The plan includes two charts, dealing with a dis- 

 trict survey of different phases of farming and with the development of home 

 project work, respectively. 



The home-school garden, C. W. Pugslet {Agriculture [Nebr.], 16 {1917), 

 No. 8-9, pp. 296-300, 328; Nebr. Col. Agr. Ext. Bui. 43 {1917), pp. 12, figs. 9).— 

 This bulletin contains an account of the organization and development of the 

 Nebraska home-school garden plan, which is the outgrowth of the school garden 

 work begun in Lincoln in 1915 and the boys' and girls' club work conducted by 

 the extension department of the Nebraska College of Agriculture. 



The extension service and the State school board each furnish a full-time 

 supervisor with the idea of giving each student enrolled some personal atten- 

 tion. School credit is given for the work. The extension service also fur- 

 nishes assistance in the organization of the work by supplying record books, 

 blanks, etc., interesting the children and adults of the community by means of 

 illustrated lectures and demonstrations in canning vegetables and fruit, etc. 



The garden supervsisor should ordinarily be the teacher of agriculture in the 

 high school, but other qualified persons may be chosen for this place. A garden 

 market, patterned after the public markets of Europe and some of the eastern 

 cities and located usually on a vacant lot in the central part of the town, should 

 be established in towns where there is difficulty in disposing of the products. 



During the 1916 season 25 towns carried on the work, and it is estimated that 

 this number will reach 50 in 1917. 



Com growing: A manual for com clubs, A. W. Nolan and J. H. Greene 

 {Neiv York and Chicago: Roio, Peterson & Co., 1917, pp. 80, figs. 11). — This is 

 the first of a series of booklets entitled Home Project Series, the object of 

 which is to make as practical as possible some of the principles of scientific 

 agriculture for the boys and girls in the public schools and to give direct 

 vocational value to such work. The plan is to give an outline of one project 

 in each booklet, including project directions, practical exercises for laboratory 

 work, subject matter for study and recitation, and notebook forms for ac- 

 counts and records. It is suggested that one or two of these projects could 

 well be taken as the basis for a year's school work in elementary agriculture. 



This booklet deals with the subject of corn growing in the manner described. 



School entomology, B. D. Sanderson and L. M. Peairs {New York: John 

 Wiley d So-ns, Inc.; London: Chapman d Hall, Ltd., 1917, pp. VII-{-358, figs. 

 233). — This book, which has been prepared for secondary schools and agricul- 

 tural short courses, treats of general and economic entomology, the latter in- 

 cludiog insects affecting man and domestic animals, household goods and 

 stpred food products, field crops, gardens and orchards, and methods of con- 

 trol. A list of references to literature on injurious insects is appended. 



