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Social surveys of rural school districts, C. J. Galpin and G. W. Davies 

 (Wisconsin Sta. Circ. 51 (1914), pp. 15, figs. 3). — This circular explains what a 

 social survey is, how It aids the teacher, and liow it is made, and gives some 

 i-esults of school district surveys and a suggestive outline for a district survey. 



Practical training in negro rural schools, J. Davis (Hampton Bui., 9 

 (1913), No. 6, pp. 15, figs. 20). — To give an idea of the definite improvement 

 brought about by supervision and industrial training in negro rural schools in 

 Southern States, largely through the aid of the Jeanes Fund, the author gives a 

 summary of the virork in Virginia in 1912-13. One of the most promising devel- 

 opments of this work has been the cooperation of the supervising industrial 

 teacher with the farm demonstration agent in girls' gardening and canning club 

 work during the summer mqnths. 



[Home and school gardening] (Ann. Rpt. Home and School Oard. Com., 

 Tiventieth Cent. Club Detroit, 10 (1913), pp. 28, figs. 12).— A brief review of 

 the committee and its work from its establishment in April, 1903, to the present 

 time is given. On July 1, 1913, instruction in the practical school gardens in 

 Detroit passed under the control of and was furnished by the board of educa- 

 tion, although the maintenance of the gardens still remains a part of the obliga- 

 tions of the organizations which brought them into existence. 



[Agricultural education in Canada] (Agr. Gas. Canada, 1 (191Jf), No. 4, 

 pp. 235-332, figs. 10). — ^A report is given of the Conference of Agricultural 

 Instruction held in Ottawa March 24 and 25, 1914, consisting of the representa- 

 tives of the Dominion and provincial departments of agriculture and education 

 and of the agricultural and veterinary colleges in Canada. The salient features 

 of the demonstration work carried on under the agricultural instruction act 

 and the agricultural instruction in the schools and agricultural colleges and 

 schools in the various provinces are briefly I'eported on. 



The number also contains a description of the buildings and equipment and 

 information concerning courses of instruction of the Saskatchewan College of 

 Agriculture, and the recommendations of commissions appointed in 1912 to 

 investigate agricultural and industrial education in Saskatchewan and British 

 Columbia, respectively. 



Scheme of agricultural education (Preston, England: Lancashire Ed. Com., 

 1914, pp. 85, pis. 11). — ^An outline is given of the scheme of agricultural educa- 

 tion to be carried out in 1914-15 in Lancaster County at the County Council 

 Farm, the dairy, poultry, and horticultural schools at Hutton, near Preston, the 

 County Council Agricultural School, at Harris Institute, Preston, and in various 

 parts of the county. 



A residential course for the training of farm lads, G. H. Garkad (Jour. 

 Bd. Agr. [London], 21 (1914), No. 4, pp. 292-300) .—This is a description of a 

 month's course begun in the latter part of December, 1913, at Toys Hill, Kent 

 County, England, for the purpose of interesting farm laborers and small farmers 

 In their work and instructing them in manual labor. 



Only 20 applicants between IG and 20 years of age who were actually at work 

 on farms in the county were admitted. They were divided into three classes 

 for practical work, bnt all classes were combined for lectures, so that fairly 

 close individual attention was possible for all students. The course of instruc- 

 tion included farm carpentry, forge and rough veterinary work, hedge laying, 

 draining, thatching, pruning and growing fruit trees, the measurement of land 

 and stacks, wood cutting, sharpening tools, construction and setting of farm 

 implements, killing, plucking, and trussing chickens, calf rearing, kitchen 

 gardening, and lectures on how plants feed and grow. The amount of time 

 devoted to each subject depended very largely on the weather, which permitted 



