94 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol.40 



Civic and social training in the agricultural schools, J. McCaig [Agr. Qaz. 

 Canada, ■'• {1918), No. 6, pp. 618-680). — Ar n meeting of the instructors of the 

 provincial schools of agriculture and officials of the Department of Agriculture 

 of Alberta, held in Edmonton on March 30 and April 1. 1918, it was decided to 

 make some additions to - for these school- bo that they will tal 



account of the conjunctive and community needs of the student, as well 

 personal efficiency. The subject of civics has been introduced into the first year 

 of the courses for both boys and girls. This will be a brief study of such in 

 tera as the community idea, the services furnished by such organizations as the 

 Local Improvement District, the municipality, the provincial government, the 

 Federal Government, and also the duties and privileges "f citizenship in rela- 

 tion to these. The object is to Inculcate in students the realization of the 

 character of the S vitai organism. The method of approach will be 



wholly through <• materials and critical u close-to-home " discussion. 



The training of th>- sec »nd year boys is to be broadened by the addition of a 

 very elementary type of rural economics, p g such matters a- a study of 



the agriculture among ti - rles, the returns from agri- 



culture as a business, its Independence through being partly self-sufficing and its 

 dependence oh - al chant jricultun mode of life, the factors of 



production, the special types of farm enterprises, different kinds of tenure. >■ 



The new Interest being established on behalf of the uiris is called rural organ 

 ization. but the method of approach is intended t- be quite concrete and the 



teaching ".ill deal with the phenomena Ol country life ami constitution-, both 

 as they are found and as they should be. I'm- course as laid out is for the pur- 



pose of discussing ways "f realizing on the institutional and social resoun a 

 of the country, to develop a broader buman and social sense, and to . 

 leadership in improving organizations. The topics include the study of the 



resources of the school in relation to attendance, consolidation, sanitation, 

 medii al Inspection, children's clubs, and the church; also a discussion of volun- 

 tary organizations, such as the institute-.. Red Cross, mothers' dabs etc* as 

 well a.s cooperativi - tor production, buying, and selling, • 



Report of the director of elementary agricultural education, K. 1'. S i kk\ - 

 ( Rpt. Agr. Vetc /■' unawick, /.''/?. ■ /). — This is a report on the 



work of this division onswick Departmet ulture for the 



year ended October 31, 1917, Including school gardens ;mi i their summer super- 

 vision, rural scien e - - for tin- training or teachers 

 projeel work with pot id poultry, and f l production. 



It is noted that nature stury and agricultUl Btudy in tl s. with 



practical methods of | Hon and requiring a garden, is optional bj 



of trui en thou I have 8] ecial qualifications for it. In- 



struction in agriculture v 87 districts in the BChool Near en. led .1 



1917, and since then 20 schools have repoi Ing tip nature study and 



■lculture with - as a permanent feature ir work 



t' al amount of grants paid to tea -hers and I :ttural ; ' stl 



tion vi l' Is ad that every school, whether 



graded, or ungraded, have a garden at L< a extent, as it is \- 



that the educational feature of the work Logically makes the 

 a necessity, and the garden at home may then b cpanslon and appl 



tion of the training given in the school garden. 



Seventeenth annual general report of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction for Ireland, 1916-17 (/></)/. \<n. m\<i T><h. />;.-• 

 'ami. Ann. Oen. h';>t.. n [1916-17), /</>. P/-HB*4).— This is the usual annual 



