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domestic science, and inauual trainiufj lor the public scliools, and to appoint 

 a state director of industrial education, and of the 1912 county high school 

 law, providing that manual training and domestic science, agriculture, and com- 

 mercial science shall be added to the course of county high schools; (2) brief 

 roi>orts on the first and second contest of the boys' and girls' industrial club in 

 1!)12-13, and ])lans for farm crops, ])oultry, and housekeepers' contests for 1914; 

 and (3) notes on agricultural and domestic science instruction in the various 

 counties of the State. 



Vocational schools, A. D. Dkan (Univ. State X. V. liul. 560 (liHJ,), pp. 76). — 

 The author discusses the operation, spirit, and purix)se of the law giving state 

 aid to vocational schools; the principles underlying state aid; the meaning and 

 controlling pui-poses of vocational education ; the rules and regulations of the 

 commissioner of education covering organization, courses of study, and content 

 of instruction; the five types of vocational schools, including the schools of 

 agriculture, inechaiiic arts, and home malciug; a description of the progress of 

 agricuultural teaching in the Hancock High School as an illustration of the 

 viewpoint of the community toward this work and of difliciilties to be overcome; 

 part-time or continuation schools and evening vocational schools in which 

 instruction is given in the trades and in industrial, agricultural, and homo eco- 

 nomics subjects; the training of teachers for vocational subjects; and the 

 movement for vocational guidance. Typical agricultural, industrial, and draw- 

 ing programs are given for use of state conferences of teachers, principals, and 

 supervisors engaged in vocational instruction in state-aided schools. 



Elementary science courses, Ora M. Cakrol iXatitrc-Stiuly Rev., 10 (191.^), 

 No. 7. pp. 253-260)^ — This is a discussion of the i)resent status of instruction 

 in nature study in normal schools, mainly in the Middle West, and in agricul- 

 tural colleges and universities. 



The teaching of agriculture in the high school, J. G. Hickox (Ohio Teacher, 

 S5 (1914), No. 4, PP- i51, 152). — The author briefly discusses the aim of instinic- 

 ti(m in agriculture, in what schools it shall be offered, what pupils shall study 

 it, the length and content of the course, laboratory work, and apparatus. 



Should normal schools offer a special course for the training of rural 

 school teachers? A. E. Maltby (Proc. Bd. Priiic. State Normal Sehools Penn., 

 1913, pp. 4-12). — In this paper the author discusses the necessity of increasing 

 the efficiency of the rural school by bringing it into closer touch with the life of 

 the people, their work, and their interests. In his opinion the rural school 

 under a teacher properly prepared for the work may become a center that will 

 influence every farm and home in the district, hence the normal school should 

 train teachers in agriculture and other rural arts as well as household and 

 manual arts. The work in agriculture should embrace text-book study, infer- 

 ence work, lectures, demonstrations, laboratory experiments, observation of field 

 work, planting and care of school gardens, etc. A certain area of the school 

 ground should be set aside for field work, and poultry yards with necessary 

 equipment might be established, as well as an orchard for demonstration pur- 

 poses. Two outlines are given of suggested 2-year courses for rural teachers. 



Home economics in the agricultural college, Jessie M. Hoover {Jour. Home 

 Econ., 4 (1912), ^0. 2, pp. 150-155). — The author gives an account of what the 

 home economies departments of agricultural colleges are doing to give instruc- 

 tion in home economics by means of regular courses and extension work. 



Home economics extension work in Kansas, Mary P. Van Zile (Jour. Home 

 Econ., 4 (1912). No. 2. pp. 155-158). — An account is given of the extension work 

 in home economics conducted by the Kansas College, including the women's 

 auxiliary to farmers' institutes, girls' home economics clubs, movable schools, 

 correspondence courses, and state farmers' institutes. 



