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and industrial education and State supervisor of home economics education for 

 the higli and district scliools of the State. The State leader in junior voca- 

 tional work at the Utah College is designated for the former position, and 

 the State leader for junior vocational work for girls for the latter. Appointees 

 to those positions must be 25 years of age or over, have at least a B. S. degree 

 in agriculture or home economics, respectively, understand tlie practical side 

 of agriculture and home economics, and possess tlie qualifications pre- 

 scribed by the State board of education. The duties of these .supervisors will 

 be to systematize the teaching of agriculture, mechanic arts, and home 

 economics in these schools, suggesting the courses particularly suited to the 

 individual students and to the communities in which the schools are located 

 and the best methods of teaching the principles underlying agricultural, in- 

 dustrial, and home economics work in the school room and laboratory, and 

 the practical work to be done at home. They are to visit each county school 

 district in the State at least once a year, and do their work under the super- 

 vision of the board of education and in cooperation with the Utah college and 

 State normal school of the University of Utah. Their salaries will be paid by 

 the college as leaders of vocational work. 



The legislature also accepted the benefits of the Federal act for the promotion 

 of vocational education. It designated the State Board of Education as the 

 agency to cooperate with the Federal board in the administration of the pro- 

 visions of the act, and the State treasurer as the custodian of the funds. An 

 appropriation of $12. .500 was made for the biennium ending March 31, 1919. 



Forest Ranger Course for the Southern Appalachians. — The Lincoln Memo- 

 rial University at Harrogate, near Cumberland Gap. Tenn., has recently organ- 

 ized a department of forestry foi the purpo.se of furnishing a training ^;uitable 

 to the needs of farmers and other owners of woodland, and which will equip 

 boys as rangers in Government, State, and private employ. 



The course will cover one year of 12 months, divided into four terms of 

 three months each. Each term is made a unit in itself, and aims to give a 

 definite knowledge about some one phase of the practical work. The course 

 will include the elements of forestry (fundamental needs and purposes, the 

 relation of forests to water resources, the effect of forest destruction, the 

 benefits to tlie community in maintaining forests in a productive condition, 

 etc.), forest botany, elementary field surveying, forest protection, timber cruising 

 and mapping, logging and scaling, manufacturing and marketing of products, 

 silviculture, forest improvements, and elementary land law. 



The greater part of the instruction will be given in the forest or in C9nnec- 

 nection with practical field problems. As a forest laboratory the university 

 has secured a timber tract of 2,080 acres extending along the Cumberland Moun- 

 tains from Cumberland Gap east into Virginia. This tract contains many 

 thousand feet of merchantable timber, a large part of which is mature and will 

 be cut as soon as possible. 



Mobilizing Massachusetts Boys for Farm Labor, — A subcommittee of the 

 Massachusetts public safety committee is endeavoring to mobilize the school 

 boys of the State for farm service. It is planned that those under 16 years of 

 age are to stay in their local communities and work on community or home 

 gardens, while those 16 years or older are asked to enlist for farm work outside 

 their own communities when needed. 



A distinctive badge and certificates of honorary discharge are among the 

 forms of recognition contemplated. Arrangements have also been made with 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural and Tufts colleges, Boston University, and the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whereby these institutions have agreed 

 to accept for a trial period without entrance examination such boys as present 



