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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



History of the Michigan Agricultural College and biographical sketches 

 of trustees and professors, W. J. Beax (East Lansing, Mich.: Mich. Agr. Col., 

 1S15, pp. 7111+519, pis. 2, figs. 266). — Chapters are devoted to accounts of the 

 laying of the foundation of the college, the administrations of its successive 

 presidents, courses of study, extension work, methods of teaching, manual 

 labor, influence of the grange and farmei's' clubs upon the college, college 

 publications, the campus and buildings, attendance, endowments and appropria- 

 tions, etc. An appendix contains the opinions' of alumni, including some who 

 have taught only in a separate college of agriculture or in an agricultural 

 college connected with the university and others who have had the dual expe- 

 rience of teaching in both types of institutions, as to whether an agricultural 

 college should be independent or united with a university. 



Reports of the development commissioners on their proceedings during the 

 years ended March 31, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917 {Rpt. Develop. 

 Comrs. [Gt. Brit.], 3 {1913), pp. [2]+72; // (WU), pp. [2]+77; 5 (.1915), pp. 

 [g]+i//; 6 (1916), pp. [2]+12; 7 (1917), pp. [2]+13).—A detailed review of 

 action taken and progress made under the Development Act is given for each 

 year. The report for 1913 also contains a brief explanation of the legal position 

 of the commissioners under the act, and some of the practical results from it. 



In the report for 1917 the commissioners state that since the commencement 

 of the war advances from the development fund have been mainly confined to 

 schemes already established, for vrhich just sufficient advances have been 

 recommended to secure continuity. They have also recommended expenditures 

 on certain new schemes in order to meet vt^ar conditions, particularly in connec- 

 tion with food supply and natural products, the two most important advances 

 recommended during the year being $607,500 for the purchase of an estate 

 for sugar-beet growing and $243,000 for improving the fish food Supply. 

 Expenditures were also recommended for a largely increased supply of plants 

 for afforestation purposes and increased growings of flax for aeroplane cloth, as 

 well as for the preparation of preliminary surveys and reports of projects of 

 development for commencement after the war when the employment of labor 

 upon a large scale may be desirable. The total of recommended expenditures 

 during the year for agriculture, rural industries, and forestry was $1,860,916, 

 including loans amounting to $607,500. The sum total of advances recom- 

 mended for this purpose up to March 31, 1917, was $9,116,952, including loans 

 amounting to $1,870,087. 



Report of the agricultural and housekeeping schools for 1.915—16 {Aarsber. 

 Offentl. Foranst. Landbr. Fremme, 1916, II, pp. VIII+359). — This is a detailed 

 report on the faculty, students, equipment, instruction, farm work, and receipts 

 and expenditures of the agricultural and housekeeping schools in Norway. 



Education (Proc. 2. Pan Amer. Sci. Cong., 1915-16, vols. 4, pp. XV+650, figs. 

 6; 5, pp. XVII-{-658, figs. 11). -^These volumes contain the report of Section IV, 

 Education, of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, held in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, December 27, 1915, to January 8, 1916. Among the papers and dis- 

 cussions in volume 4 are the following relating to agricultural education, which 

 have been previously noted (E. S. R;, 34, p. 307) : Education for the Baccalau- 

 reate Degree as Administered in Agricultural Colleges, by A. C. True (pp. 

 80-87) ; A National System of Agricultural Education, by H. J. Waters (pp. 

 226-229) ; A Decade in Agricultural Education, by A. M. Soule (pp. 229-241) ; 

 and Agricultural Instruction, by J. Comallonga y Mena (pp. 305-344). 



Volume 5 contains, among others, papers on agricultural education as fol- 

 lows : Scientific Agriculture or Agricultural Education in Brazil, by L. F. S. 



