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land of at least one acre and sufficient to provide 0.1 acre for eacli person en- 

 rolling for plant production projects. The community boards of control of special 

 schools of agriculture must provide a $500 minimum equipment, 10 acres of 

 suitable land, the necessary buildings, and such additional equipment as the 

 State board may require. The teachers of vocational agriculture must be 

 employed on a 12 months' basis at a minimum salary of $1,200. Federal funds 

 may be used for only that portion of a teacher's time devoted to vocational 

 agriculture. 



The courses of study for vocational agricultural schools and departments 

 must consist of 4 years' work, 50 per cent of which time each year must 

 be devoted to instruction in agriculture, demonstrations, supervised agricul- 

 tural projects, and supervised study in agriculture and project work, and the re- 

 maining time to such subjects as will give additional cultural and good 

 citizenship training. Each student must do six months' supervised project 

 work each year, and each project must be visited by the supervisor in charge 

 at least once each month. 



The qualifications of all teachers, supervisors, or directors of vocational 

 agriculture include graduation from a standard agricultural college, or its 

 equivalent, at least two years of actual working experience on a farm after 

 the twelfth birthday, one full year's course in education or its equivalent, 

 one-half year of agricultural teaching experience in a secondary school or its 

 equivalent, etc. After .Tuly 1, 1921, these qualifications will include the com- 

 pletion of a 4-year college course in vocational agricultural education with 

 144 semester hours' worlc, at least 40 hours of which must be technical agri- 

 culture and from 15 to 24 hours professional training, including supervised 

 practice teaching in secondary agriculture. Upon the completion of this 

 course e. permanent teacher's ceatificate will be granted by the State depart- 

 ment of education. The admission requirements to this course will be 14 

 units of high-school work. 



A possible core for a program in agricultural education, T. H. Eaton 

 {School and Sac, 6 (1917), No. 157, pp. 755-761).— The author defines agricul- 

 ture in its narrowest, modern technical, and broadest sense, stating the prime 

 requisites to succe.ss in each. In his opinion agricultural education may 

 mean apprenticeship in the processes of husbandi'y, scientific instruction in 

 the technology of production from the land, or preparation for intelligent 

 entering upon the life of a farmer. These three aspects are prevocational, voca- 

 tional, and liberalizing. To serve as a guide to those activities which must be par- 

 ticipated in by learners fitting themselves for the life of a farmer, he submits a 

 crude classification of certain activities that seem to him common to the lives 

 of American farmers, followed by suggestive possible activities of the learner 

 in two or more of three categories, viz., primary activities for the acquire- 

 ment of first-hand meanings and a greater or less degree of skill, secondary 

 activities for organized knowledge and adaptability to varying situations, 

 and tertiary studies for the sake of insiglit and appreciation. 



Sixteenth annual general report of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Teclmical Instruction for Ireland, 1915—16 (Dept. Agr. and Tech. Instr. 

 Ireland, Ann. Gcv. Rpt., 16 (1915-16), pp. VI-\-201). — This is the usual annual 

 report on the department's admnistration and funds, with details of operations 

 during the year 1915-16, including agricultural and technical instruction. 



Soil physics and management, J. G. Mosier and A. F. Gustafson (Phila- 

 delphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1917, pp. XIII +442, pi. 1, figs. 202). — 

 This book, which has been written as a textbook for the agricultural student, 

 a reference book for the practical farmer, and an aid to the land owner desir- 

 ing information in the personal management of his land, emphasizes the prin- 



