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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The training in forestry during the next decade, J. W, Toumey {Off. Pubs. 

 Cornell Univ., 5 (1914), No. 19, pp. 27-35).— The author submits a brief survey 

 of the origin and development of forestry education in this country, and points 

 out some of its vpeaknesses and needs. 



He finds that the " tremendous impetus in national and state forestry coinci- 

 dent with the development of the older forestry schools of collegiate grade, and 

 their inability to supply at once all the men required by the national and state 

 governments and for private work, stimulated to an inordinate degree the de- 

 velopment of facilities for forestry education and the multiplication of schools " 

 until the United States now has 21 colleges and universities that offer degrees 

 in forestry and announce that they train men for the broad fields of national, 

 state, and private forestry. Of the collegiate institutions 18 at the close of 4 

 years of satisfactory work offer the degree of B. S. in forestry and one the 

 degree of forest engineer; 6 institutions at the close of an additional year of 

 graduate work offer the degree of master of forestry or of master of science in 

 forestry ; in 2 institutions the work is wholly of graduate character, the degree 

 of master of forestry being given for 2 years of satisfactory work. "After less 

 than 15 years of development in forestry education in the United States, we 

 have more schools that aim to prepare men for the profession of forestry than 

 there are in all Europe after more than a century of forest school development." 



In the opinion of the author the inclination has been to overemphasize em- 

 pirical methods and to underemphasize fundamental laws and efficiency. For- 

 estry education should be developed by incorporating forestry in the general 

 education system of the country from the public school to the university as a 

 coordinate subject with agriculture or horticulture, and by the development of 

 ranger schools which should teach merely the art or trade of forestry. The 

 rational development of the educational system along these lines will make it 

 necessary for the high-grade professional man at the top to be better trained 

 and surer of his technical equipment, minor subjects will be cut out of the cur- 

 ricula of professional schools, greater emphasis placed on fundamental subjects, 

 and greater specialization undertaken on the professional side. 



Development of instruction in animal and dairy husbandry, H. Nylandeb 

 (Kreatitrsskotsel- och Mejerildrlings-Institutionens Utveckling. Helsingfors: 

 Govt., 191Ji, pp. 53). — The author discusses the development of practical instruc- 

 tion in animal and dairy husbandry, in accordance with the provisions of the 

 law of 1908, the text of which is included, for the reorganization of this instruc- 

 tion. 



Agricultural education (Bet: Deut. Sekt. Landesk. Rates Konigr. Bohmen, 

 22 (1913), pp. 21-71). — ^A detailed report on the activities of itinerant agri- 

 cultural instructors, and progress notes on agricultural schools and educational 

 institutions in 1913 under the supervision of the German Section of the Agri- 

 cultural Council of Bohemia. 



Agricultural schools and itinerant instruction {Jahresher. Landw. Kammer 

 Prov. Sachsen, 1912, pp. 125-133). — This is a report on the agricultural and 

 housekeeping schools, special courses, agricultural instruction in the army, and 

 itinerant agricultural instruction under the supervision of the chamber of agri- 

 culture of the Province of Saxony in Prussia. 



Agricultural education service (Jaarb. Dept. Landb., Nijv. en Handel Neder- 

 land. Indie, 1913, pp. 79-186, pis. 9). — ^A report on the activities of the depart- 

 ment of agriculture in promoting agricultural instruction in 1913 in the Dutch 

 East Indies, 



