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The total amount distributed by the board for agricultural education for 

 1915-16 was $479,420 (including .$322,776.90 from the Development Fund), as 

 compared with $469,612 in 1914-1.5 and $139,433 in 1911-12. The grants for 

 1915-16 included $78,343 for universities and colleges. .$32,479 for advisory 

 work, $106,706 for research institutions and centers, .$30,963 for special research 

 investigations, $8,729 for research scholarships, $135,633 for farm schools, tech- 

 nical classes, local lectures, etc., $66,067 for the establishment of farm schools, 

 $5,638 toward the expenses of advisoi-y councils, and $14,862 for forestry ad- 

 vice, research, and experiments. 



Eighth annual report of the eleven district agricultural schools of Georgia, 

 J. S. Stewart {Bui. Ga. State Col. Agr., No. 13S {1911), pp. 28, fig. /).— Thia 

 is a report on the annual meeting of the principals and on the work of the 11 

 district agricultural schools of Georgia for the year 1916-17, including extension 

 work, teacher training courses and summer institutes, si^ecial features, an out- 

 line of the 4-year courses in agriculture and home economics, and statistical 

 data with reference to enrollment, land and equipment, and disposition of funds. 



The total enrollment of the 11 schools was 1,622, ranging from 72 to 210 

 students. The schools cultivated a total of 1,094 acres, varying from 80 to 150 

 acres a school. The total value of their live stock was $27,022, and of tools 

 $17,185. 



It was agreed by the principals that the status of the .schools be defined as 

 that of 4-year high schools so articulated to the Georgia State College of Agri- 

 culture as to provide admission thereto on the basis of 14 Carnegie units, and 

 further that 36 hours of technical work per month be required of each student 

 without remuneration. It was suggested that the laboratory work required by 

 the various schools be unified, and that as a general rule not less than seven 

 periods per week (three recitations and two double laboratory hours) should 

 be given to each science. 



Agricultural education and experimentation in the Republic of Argentina, 

 T. Amadeo (J/m. Agr. [Argentina], Div. Ensenanza Agr. [Pm&.], No. 61 {1916), 

 pp. 208, figs. 70). — This report deals with the history, development, and present 

 status of agricultural inistruction in Argentina, the agricultural education 

 budget and inventory, a proposed central institute of agricultural investigation, 

 the agricultural education law, and the duties of public authorities with refer- 

 ence to agricultural education. Appendixes contain statistics of the agricul- 

 tural education and investigation institutions with reference to the value of 

 land, buildings, and equipment, and discussions of the cost of agricultural educa- 

 tion institutions, a central institute of agricultural investigation, agricultural 

 instruction in the normal and primary schools, and agricultural instruction for 

 women in universities and special schools for men. 



Report on agricultural and forestry education in the Dutch East Indies, 

 H. C. H. De Bie, W. G. Boorsma, A. de Koning, and L. de Blieck {Jaarb. Dept. 

 Landb., Nijv. en Handel Nederland. Indie, 1915, pp. 93-12^, 155-164, 292-313). — 

 This annual report on the activities of the Department of Agriculture, In- 

 dustries, and Commerce of the Dutch East Indies, includes a report on the 

 progress of agricultural research and instruction in 1915. The latter comprises 

 instruction given in the Higher Agricultural School at Buitenzorg, a secondary 

 school of cultivation at Soekaboemi, a veterinary school at Buitenzorg, 17 ele- 

 mentai-y agricultural schools for the natives, normal schools, special courses of 

 lectures, demonstrations, etc., for adults, and an experiment in giving instruc- 

 tion in agriculture to the higher classes of village public schools. 



The study of veterinary science, M. Gumming, F. T. Daubigny, J. H. Reed, 

 C. D. McGil\-ray, W. J. Rutherford, and H. A. Craig {Agr. Gaz. Canada, 4 

 {1917), No. 10. pp. 874-881). — A brief description is presented of the instruc- 



