AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 895 



in both districts, the amoimts spent under the different Items varied widely. 

 For the nrbnn districts 17.17 i^r cent of the total was spent for housinpc, .3S.02 

 lor food. 12.90 for clothing, 4.40 for fuel and light, and 27.42 for other items. 

 The distribution for countrj- districts was 8.50. 43.5L 14.:}2, 4.59, and 29.08 per 

 cent, respectively. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Progress of agricultural education in 1912—13, F. B. Jenks and C. II. Lane 

 (Rpt. Comr. Education [C7. S.] 1913, 7, pp. 2Ji-233)-.— This is a review for 

 1912-13 of the loadinij: features of progress in agricultural education in this 

 country and abroad, inchiding the principal items of interest concerning the 

 agricultural colleges and normal, secondary, and elementary schools in the 

 Unitetl States in which agriculture is taught, educational work of the Graduate 

 School of Agriculture, tlie U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Association 

 of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching, the r>epartment of 

 Superintendence of the National Education Association, the Conference for 

 Education in the South, and of other conventions, and the principal develop- 

 ments in agricultural oducntion in other lauds. 



[Contributions to the history of the New York State College of Agricul- 

 ture] {Cornell Couninjman, 12 U^lJ^), Ko. 3, pp. 167-258, fujs. JfO). — This num- 

 ber contains the following historical articles: The Relation of Ezra Cornell to 

 the College of Agriculture, by A. D. AAHiite; Pioneer Days in Agriculture, by 

 I. P. Roberts; The Later Financial and Physical -Development of the College 

 of Agriculture, by L. H. Bailey; The New York State College of Agriculture in 

 Its Relation to Agricultural Progress in the United States, by A. C. True ; The 

 Development of the Faculty, by A. J. Lamoureux ; The Development of the 

 Experiment Station, by J. H. Comstock ; The Development of the Courses of 

 Instruction, by G. N. Lauman ; Develoi)ment of the Graduate Work, by W. A. 

 Riley; The Development of the Land and the College Farms, by J. L. Stone; 

 The Extension Work at the College, C. H. Tuck ; Home Economics in the 

 College of Agriculture, by Martha Van Rensselaer; Reminiscences of Early 

 Cornell Days, by W. R. Lazenby; and Some Cornell Boys I have Known, by 

 B. T. Galloway. 



Record of the alumni of the Kansas State Agricultural College {Manhat- 

 tan: Kans. State Agr. Col., 191^, PP- 308. fujn. 28). — In addition to the alumni 

 record a history is given of the administrations of five of the presidents of the 

 college and of the present one to date, the courses of study, changes in college 

 life, and attendance. 



A preliminary outline of the courses of study in agriculture and minimum 

 of required equipment for the farm-life schools of North Carolina, E. A. 

 HoDSON {RaJeifili, y. C: State Supt. Pub. Instr., 19U, pp. 78).— This bulletin 

 also contains suggested additional equipment, text and reference books, and 

 lists of publication for the libr;u*y. 



Division of agricultural extension, A. D. Wilson {Minnesota. Sta. Rpt., 

 191Jf, pp. 59-68). — This is the annual progress report on the work of the division 

 of agricultural extension, comprising farmers' institutes and clubs, special 

 trains, rural school work, county agricultural agents, short courses, demonstra- 

 tion farms, coimty fairs, special meetings, publications, aid to cow-testing and 

 live-stock shipping associations, and the production of the " Back to the Farm " 

 play. 



The Oka Agricultural Institute, J. M. Liguori {.igr. Gaz. Canada, 1 {1914), 

 A^o. 11. pp. 901-912. figs. 6). — A description is given of the equipment, courses 

 of study, and staff of the Oka Agricultural Institute at La Trappe, Quebec. This 



