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one or more of their schools, at the home of the pupil, or iu connection with 

 regular school work. It is recommended that there be better supervision over 

 home plat work, that land used at or near the school be for demonstration 

 purposes rather than for experiments, that iu training teachers of agriculture 

 or school gardening more attention be given to instruction in the use of land, 

 that simple records of work ho kept wliere land is cultivated, and thiit if laud 

 is use<l by schools having all the grades, the pupils of the upper grammar grades 

 cooperate with the high school pupils iu the elementary demonstration projects. 

 Home gardens and vacant lot gardens are deemed more popular than school 

 gardens if they are under similar management and supervision. 



Agricultural education for teachers, G. A. Brickee {New York, Cincinnati, 

 and Chicago: Aiiicrican Book Co., IVJ.'i, pp. 172, pis. Jf). — This book, which may 

 be considered a handbook for the teacher and a guidebook for the district and 

 the county supervisor and the sui)ervisor of rural or agricultural education, dis- 

 cusses the rise of popular education in agriculture, the iiroblem of intensive 

 agriculture, a popular scientilic agriculture, the qualifications and preparation 

 of the teacher of agriculture, agencies for the preparation of teachers, ele- 

 mentary agriculture and nature study, what is elementary agriculture, agricul- 

 ture as a means of education, pedagogical problems involved in the teaching of 

 elementary agriculture, the administration and teaching of school agriculture, 

 cooperative use of apparatus, equipment, and illustrative material, agricultural 

 demonstration field and home projects, and boys' and girls' agricultural clubs. 



Courses in agriculture for the secondary schools of Texas, W. F. Douohty, 

 M. L. Hayes, and W. S. Taylor {Joint Bui. Utate Dcpt. Ed., Univ. Texas, and 

 Agr. and Mech. Col. Tex., No. 1 {1914), pp. 166). — In this bulletin the authors 

 offer general recommendations and suggestions on the qualifications of teachers, 

 equipment and state aid, adaptation of courses in agriculture to local conditions 

 as regards scope of courses for schools offering, respectively, one, two, three, 

 and four years' work iu agriculture, and agricultural curricula for high schools; 

 on textbooks, notebooks, collections, exhibits, etc., visits and field trips, project 

 work, school-farm and community and extension work ; and outlines of syllabi 

 in plant pi'opagation, vegetable gardening, animal husbandrj-, dairying, poultry 

 raising, soils and soil fertility, field crops, fruit production, farm mechanics, 

 farm management and home grounds, landscape gardening, entomology, and 

 weeds, together with practice work and reference material. A list of the mini- 

 mum laboratory and agricultural equipment for 12 students is given, and an 

 appendix contains score cards for field ^crops, farm animals, dairies, butter, and 

 farms. 



Course of study in agriculture and domestic science for rural schools {Bui. 

 Ncbr. Scliool Agr., Curtis, 1. ser., No. // {191-'j), pp. 32). — This bulletin offers 

 suggestions to teachers as to seed corn, milk testing, a comparative type study 

 of beef and dairy cows, and cooking and sewing. 



[Agricultural and Home economics in3truct:ion in the public schools of 

 New Hampshire], G. H. Whitcher {N. H. Dcpt. Pub. Instr., Inst. Circ. 1913-14, 

 Nos. 5, pp. 8; 10, pp. 8; 14, pp. 22; 16, pp. 7; 17, pp. 14; 18, pp. 10; 19, pp. 8; 

 1914-15, Nos. 1, pp. 7; 5, pp. 14; 6, pp. 6; 7, pp. 13). — These circulars include 

 a discussion of cooking as a means and end in education, and instruction out- 

 lines in stock feeding, home-mixed fertilizers, school and home gardening for 

 grade pupils, garden projects in high schools, insects that destroy farm crops, 

 ten serious plant diseases, domestic arts and household appliances, horticulture 

 in the high school, fruit-tree raising, and field work in soil study. 



Helps for domestic science work in seventh and eighth grades, November- 

 December {Dcpt. Pub. Instr. [Ind.], Ed. Pubs., Bui. 13 {1914), pp. 22).— This 



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