294 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



The author states the educational needs of those who are to follow rural 

 pursuits and suggests the character of instruction required to meet these needs, 

 taking up successively- (1) rural elementary schools, (2) higher elementary 

 schools and upper classes to elementary schools in rural districts, (3) rural 

 secondary schools, (4) rural evening schools, (5) schools of rural industry, 

 such as schools of gardening and fruit culture, practical forestry, farming, 

 dairying, and domestic economy, (6) agricultural colleges and university de- 

 partments, including agricultural short courses, and (7) the traini4g of teach- 

 ers for rural schools by means of pupil teacher centers, training colleges, local 

 classes for teachers, and training of science teachers for rural secondary 

 school*. There are appended suggested nature studies, nature-study and meteor- 

 ological calendars, suggested schemes for school gardening, beekeeping as nat\ii'o 

 study, a syllabus of instruction in dairying for the upper classes of an ele- 

 mentary school, a list of natural science books suitable for a rural school 

 library, nature-study exhibitions, subjects suitable for exercises in rural arith- 

 metic, outline syllabuses in certain subjects in centralized evening schools, and 

 a course of natural science for pupil. teacher centers. 



The American rural school: Its characteristics, its future, and its prob- 

 lems, II. W. FoGHT {New York, WW, pp. XXI +361, pis. 16, figs. 23).— This 

 is a toijieally-arranged text-book lor rural school teachers, superintendents, 

 school-board members, teachers' I'eading circles, and normal training classes. 

 Its chapters on the rural school teacher, nature study and school grounds, 

 school gardens, elementary agriculture and industrial clubs, and manual train- 

 ing for rural schools furnish a survey of recent developments in these direc- 

 tions and many suggestions for further perfecting the efficiency of rural schools 

 in relation to vocational training. The concluding chapter on progress in rural 

 school consolidation and its literature points out the advantages of this move- 

 ment in promoting the general social and educational interests of the com- 

 munity. 



The agricultural high school, a new grip on the rural problem, B. H. 

 Crocheron {Cornell Countryman, 7 {1910), No. 8, pp. 267-269). — Agricultural 

 high schools are described as " those schools into which agriculture has been 

 introduced as an additional or supplementary subject, and those other schools 

 which are created primarily to teach agriculture but which with it give a 

 general education." A school of the latter class is described with reference to 

 its many functions outside of the class rooms and its duties to the adults and 

 others in the community who are not in school. 



Agriculture in a village high school, F. A. Woodward {Cornell Conntrymnn, 

 7 {1910), No. 8, pp. 261, 262). — In this ])aper the author discusses the reasons 

 for introducing agriculture into his school and describes the work as to meth- 

 ods, equipment, difficulties, and results. 



An introduction to agriculture, A. A. TJpham {New York, 1910, pp. XI+ 

 270, flffs. Ill, dams. If, map 1). — An elementary text-book designed for tin; 

 seventh and eighth grades, including chapters on good roads, forestry, and 

 home and school grounds, an appendix on insecticides and fungicides, ferti- 

 lizers and food constituents, etc., and a list of articles and bulletins on agri- 

 cultural topics. The subject of crop rotation is treated historically and much 

 more fully than is usual in elementary text-books. Each chapter is followed 

 by a summary and a list of questions. 



Land teaching, H. E. Stockbridge {Atlanta, Ga., 1910, pp. VIII+131, pis. 

 26, figs. 2, flgms. 2).^A compilation of information for the aid of teachers who 

 are required to teach agriculture in rui'al schools without special ])reparation. 

 It is arranged under the following topics: The home grounds, first principles 



