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withiel. The object of the school was to demonstrate to the farmers In th.-ir 

 own locality and with their <>wn milk thai better returna could be obtained from 

 cheese making than from butter making and the advantages of the coopcra; 

 factory system, and to give an opportunity (or Instruction In chocac making 



under factory conditions. The BUCCeSS Ot the SChOO] Led to the establishment 

 of nine such schools in l'.HT and is in 1918. Many of these schools have In- 

 come registered societies. The Bchools form a suitable groundwork opon which 

 to establish cooperative milk depots and cheese factories, and the board has 

 devised a Bcheme whereby newly-formed cooperative societies '-an in- n twist ed 

 in obtaining capital. A report is given on tin- working of the tlve chi 



school at Nfarlston, near Newbury, in Berkshire, as an illustration of the 

 beneficial results of cooperation. 



The project in science teaching, J. A. STEVENSON (School Sci. <im! Math., 

 19 {1919), No. 1, pp. 50-63). — This is mainly a statement and Ion of the 



advantages and shortcomings of tin- project method in Bciem rhc 



author concludes that "the project method rightly carried on develop! 

 interest, gives training in carrying acts to completion, and provides adequate 

 opportunity for directing, thinking and reasoning, its shortcomings are in 

 [not] providing for habit formal ion and a systematic view of sul alter." 



The teaching of vocational agriculture in secondary schools, T. K Baowira 

 and L. E. Cook (State Col. [N. C] lice, 11 (1918), No. 6, /</,. r,), figs. 5).— This 

 publication which has been prepared to assist teachers of agriculture in North 

 Carolina, contains an outline of a course of study in agriculture for vocational 

 schools, a chart showing alternation of courses, a discussion of the placement 

 of the agricultural courses by years, the selection of subject matter and division 

 of time, the organization of subject matter with reference to seasonal sequence, 

 including an outline of the study of corn as an illustration, supervised practice 

 or project work, home project study, project outlines, an outline guide to better 

 teaching, an outline for evaluating textbooks, a list of suggested texts for voca- 

 tional agriculture, equipment for teaching agriculture, and report and record 

 forms. 



First principles of agriculture, E. S. Goff and D. D. Mayne (Neto York: 

 American Book Co., 191S, rev. ed., pp. 212. pis. S, figs. 158). — This text deals 

 with the soil, plant propagation, the rotation of crops, plant parasib a, the im- 

 provement of plants, farm crops, weeds, the garden, the orchard, animal hus- 

 bandry, dairying, poultry, beekeeping, the improvement of home and BChooJ 

 yards, semitropical fruits, and irrigation and dry farming. The chapters on 

 corn, wheat, semitropical fruits, and irrigation and dry farming, have been 

 added in the present revision. The text has also been adapted to meet the de- 

 mand for vocational instruction. Su »ns Cor experiments are included in 

 the first part of the book, and at the close of each chapter a list of questions 

 and exerdses IS added. An appendix contains useful information concern!] 

 quantities of seed required to the acre, directions for preparing Insecticides 

 and fungicides, digestible nutrients in common feeds, amount of nutrients for 

 a day's Feeding, fertilizing constituents in American feeding stuffs. • 



Agriculture. — Southern Edition, O. 11. BENSON and <i. H. BETT8 {Indianapo- 

 lis: The Bobbe-MerrUl Co., 1918, pp. [IZ]+SS6, pi. t, fa». MS).— This is an 

 adaptation, specifically for the South and with reference solely to the of 



southern schools and southern agriculture, of the text previously noted (R 

 R., 36, p. 304). 



Agriculture for seventh year. M. C. Ti:x < Tin/lorrille. 111.: Author. 1918, pp 

 115, fig. 1). — This text, which is adapted to the use of seventh year i 

 following the Illinois State course of study, is arranged by mouths. The subjc 



