1918.] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 695 



Monthly crop report (U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Mo. Crop Rpt., ^ (1918), No. 1, pp. 

 S). — This number contains the usual monthly data with reference to the esti- 

 mated value of important farm products, average prices received by producers, 

 and range of prices of agricultural products at important markets, and also 

 contains special articles on the largest 1916 crop yield, stocks of potatoes on 

 January 1, firewood used on farms, and other miscellaneous data. 



Annual statistics of Chile {An. Estad. Chile, 7 {1915-16), pp. [8]+ii3).— 

 These pages continue data previously noted (E. S. R., 37, p. 92), by adding 

 a later year. 



Statistics of trade and agricultural products in Spain, 1916, M. Mate- 

 SANz {Mem. Estad. Renta Aduanas, 1916, pp. 115). — This report gives data 

 with reference to the production and internal and foreign trade in agricultural 

 products for 1916, with comparative data for earlier years. 



[Agricultural statistics in Switzerland] {Status. Jahrb. Schweiz, 25 {1916), 

 pp. 2SS). — These pages continue information previously noted (E. S. R., 36, 

 p. 393 ) , by adding information for a later year. 



Agricultural statistics of British India {Statis. Abs. Brit. India, 50 {1905- 

 1915), pp. y7//+260).— These pages supplement information previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 36, p. 291). 



AGEICULTUEAL EDUCATION. 



Plan for the organization and administration of the Smith-Hughes Act 

 {Salem, Oreg.: Supt. Pub. Instr. [1917], pp. i.^).— This is a detailed statement 

 of the plan for the organization and administration of vocational education 

 in Oregon under the Smith-Hughes Act. submitted by the Oregon State Board 

 for Vocational Education to the Federal Board for Vocational Education and 

 adopted December 18, 1917, together with local plans for administering the 

 same. 



It has been arranged that the Oregon State Agricultural College will make a 

 formal transfer to the State Board for Vocational Education of the time and 

 services of its professor of agricultural education. 



The plant and equipment of schools receiving Federal aid for vocational in- 

 struction in agriculture is to consist of a minimum of approved general equip- 

 ment valued at $500 for an all-day or department school, an approved reference 

 library, ground sufficient for experi menial and demonstration purposes, and an 

 annual fund of not less than $100 for incidental expenses. The minimum 

 salary of teachers of vocational agriculture shall be $1,200, in addition to an 

 annual maintenance fund. 



In an all-day school or department at least 50 per cent of the time is to be 

 spent on vocational agriculture, including project work, the study of material 

 bearing directly on the project, and the study of related material. There must 

 be at least six months' supervised farm-project work, carried on upon a com- 

 mercial basis. 



The minimum qualifications of a teacher of vocational agriculture shall be 

 (1) graduation from a 4-year standard agricultural college course with the 

 major work in general agriculture, and not less than 15 semester hours of 

 agricultural education comprising practice teaching, special methods in teach- 

 ing, educational psychology, principles of education, and a study of vocations 

 and the relation of agriculture to economic conditions; and (2) not less than 

 2 years of practical farm experience. He shall be employed for the calendar 

 year with provisions for vacations, etc. 



The training of teachers of agi-iculture will be done by the Oregon College 

 under the supervision of the State Board for Vocational Education. The course 



