1917] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 893 



articles by school inspectors in Nova Scotia, Outario, and Saskatchewan on 

 what the school inspector can do to promote rural science instruction in the 

 schools. 



The agricultural subjects, W. A. Bkoyi.ks {Quart. Jour. Univ. N. Dak., 6 

 {1916), No. 2, pp. iSS-lJ/.'i). — The author discusses tlie wide ranj^e of the field of 

 agricultural subjects, their cultural value, and elements of live educative proc- 

 esses in and out of school. 



" Snap courses " in college: Agriculture v. engineering, F. H. Blodgett 

 {School and iS'oc, 6 {1917), Xo. 1,35, pp. 91-90). — The author presents an analysis 

 of the two fields of agriculture and engineering in an effort to discover why 

 the biological sciences are so often regarded us " snap courses '* in the average 

 college. In his opinion, " It seems probable that the disrespect so often felt by 

 students, either for the courses in the biological sciences themselves, or for the 

 students who select such courses, will be largely diminished if there can be 

 developed a more definite goal toward wliich the whole body of teaching and 

 experiment may converge, each step being coordinated with each other step, 

 and each essential to the whole. It should be the aim of agricultural science 

 (or of biological science, of which agriculture is the field of application), to dis- 

 cover the sequence of details which together are necessary to build a founda- 

 tion for the growth of the subject for its development into a branch of knowl- 

 edge coordinate with the older topics." 



Outline of experiments for departments of agriculture in the public schools 

 of Louisiana, P. L. Guilbeau and T. H. Habris {Baton Rouge, La.: Dept. Ed., 

 pp. IfS, fig. 1). — The author outlines exercises and experiments in agriculture 

 to be used in connection with the various texts studied in grades 8, 9, and 11 of 

 the public schools of Louisiana. 



Dairy education, R. A. 1'eakson {Lincoln, Nebr.: Univ. Nebr., 1917, pp. 12). — 

 In this address, delivered at the dedication of Dairy Industry Hall at the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska on January 17, 1917, the author discusses the growth of the 

 dairy industry, the development of dairy cattle, improvements in methods of 

 dairying, the recognition by the American people of the importance of making 

 ample provision for instruction in the fundamental and vital industries of this 

 country, the dignity of agricultural education, and future problems in dairying. 



The present position and futiire developments of dairy education. — Science, 

 J. Mackintosh {Jour. Brit. Dairy Farmers' Assoc., 31 {1917), pp. 92-107, fig. 

 1). — Tlie author gives a concise account of the system of dairy education which 

 has been developed in Great Britain. This comprises instruction (1) provided 

 by counties in the form of itinerant instruction and instruction at a fixed in- 

 stitution, either a county farm school or an agricultural college, or both, and 

 (2) at provincial institutions. The most necessary lines of future development 

 are also indicated. 



The present position and future developments of dairy education. — Prac- 

 tice, P. McCoNNELL {Jour. Brit. Dairy Farmers' Assoc., 31 {1917), pp. 85-91). — 

 This is a review of progress made in practical dairy instruction in Great Britain, 

 with special reference to feeding, records, selection, sanitation, and inspection. 

 In the author's opinion " the best equipped dairy farmer — apart from que.stions 

 of capital — is one who has spent some time in his youth on a dairy farm, taking 

 his share of tlie work . . . and who then, equipped with practical knowledge, 

 attends the usual courses at a dairy school." 



The part which women might play, Margaket Shanks {Jour. Brit. Dairy 

 Farmers' Assoc., 31 {1917), pp. 108-118). — This is a review of what women have 

 done in dairy production in the past and the lines upon which they have been 

 advancing in recent years, and a consideration of what additional or special 



