596 EXPEEIMENT STATION EECOED. 



aud for cooking and sewing equipment $55,144. Statistical tables show the 

 enrollment aud expenditures for agriculture and home tconomics instruction. 



Vocational education in Pennsylvania (Penn. Dept. Pub. Instr., Vocational 

 Div. Bid. 1 {1913). pp. 21). — This bulletin contains the text of the law enacted 

 in 1913 providing state aid for vocational, industrial, agricultural, and house- 

 hold arts schools and departments, an interi^retation of the law, rules and regu- 

 lations to 1)0 apiilicd, methods of iiutting the new statute ii'to effect, etc. 



Agricultural schools and departments {Penn. Dept. Pub. Instr., Vocational 

 Div. Bui. 2 {191S), pp. 15). — This bulletin discusses conditions and require- 

 ments with reference to organization, qualifications of teachers, courses of 

 study, project work, .summer employment of teachers, i-.se of land, rooms and 

 equipment, etc.. governing agricultural schools and departments desiring to 

 qualify for state aid. 



Household arts schools, departments, and evening classes {Penn. Dept. 

 Pub. Instr., Vocational Div. Bui. Jf {1913). pp. 18). — This bulletin considers in 

 detail those parts of the vocational education law of Pennsylvania that relate 

 to household arts education, including suggestive outlines and. a description of 

 4-year, 2-year, and evening courses, and a plan of procedure for organizing 

 evening classes. 



Correlating agriculture with the public-school subjects in the Southern 

 States, C. H. Lane and E. A. Miller {V. S. Dept. Agi: Bui. 132 {1915), pp. Jfl, 

 figs. 9). — The authors present a scheme by means of which the rural or public 

 ."^ichool teacher may utilize clubs in correlating agriculture and farm-life problems 

 with the regular school work. For the pui-pose of this scheme public school 

 classes are divided into two groups, including grades 1 to 5 and 6 to 8, respec- 

 tively. The subject matter outlined is arranged according to a monthly sequence 

 plan. 9 months' work being provided for. Directions are included for organiz- 

 ing boys' and girls' clubs, securing literature, selecting, storing, and testing 

 seed, planning school gardens, and making school exhibits, including score cards. 

 Suggested problems in arithniotie are added. 



Course of study in agriculture for the public schools of Oregon, F. L. 

 Griffin {Salem, Greg.: State Dept. Ed., 191^-15, pp. 79). — An agricultural 

 course for the eighth grade is outlined in seasonal sequential order. It com- 

 prises a series of lessons of fi'om 20 to 30 minutes each a day in orchard, field, 

 and garden crops, beneficial and injurious insects, plant diseases, weeds, poultry 

 husbandry, dairying, animal husbandry, farm management and machinery, 

 foi'estry, and the country home and its surroundings. The lessons are accom- 

 panied by suggestions and directions for practical exercises, at least one for 

 each week. A list of references is included. 



Outlines of nature study and elementary agriculture, :m. J. Abbey {Salt 

 Lake City: Univ. Utah, 1913, pp. 103). — In this bulletin the author discusses 

 the correlation of nature study with other school subjects, and outlines the work 

 in nature study aud elementai-y agriculture, including typical lessons from the 

 first to the eighth grades, inclusive. The course in elementary agriculture for 

 the seventh and eighth grades may also be used, with slight modifications, as an 

 elementary high school course. 



Agriculture in elementary schools (Augusta, Me.: Dept. Ed., 1911f, pp. 28). — 

 This circular contains an outline for tlie study of school and home gardening, 

 together with laboratory exercises, exercises in soils aud plant growth for the 

 rural schools in Maine, and suggestions concerning the organization of boys' and 

 girls' agricultural clubs. 



Helps for teachers in agriculture: Soils, M. L. Fisher {Purdue Univ. Dept. 

 Agr. Ext. Bui. 31 {191 Jf). pp. 12). — ^The author outlines soil studies for the 

 seventh and eighth grades of the Indiana public schools for 1914-15. 



