292 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOBD. [VoL 37 



Prices of cattle and meat in Russia, A. lA. Korenblit {Kharkov. Obshck. 

 Sclsk. Khoz., Oblast. Kom. Peresmotru Russ.-Germ. Torg, Dogov., No. 8 (1915), 

 pp 84). — This report gives the monthly and yearly prices for 1903-1912 at 

 Moscow and Petrograd for various classes of meat and cattle. 



Live stock statistics [of Egypt, Spain, Morocco and Tunis] (Intemat. Inst. 

 Agr. Rome, Intemat. Crop Rpt. and Agr. Statis., 8 {1911), No. S, pp. 183-1S5). — 

 These pages give the number of live stock, by classes, for 1916, with comparative 

 data for earlier years. 



AGRICULTTTEAL EDUCATION. 



State higher educational institutions of Iowa (17. S. Bur. Ed. BuL 19 

 {1916), pp. 223, figs. 45). — This is a report of a survey of the State higher 

 educational institutions of Iowa, made under the direction of the U. S. Ck)m- 

 missioner of Education for the Iowa State Board of Education. Among the 

 findings of the surs'ey committee summarized in recommendations are the 

 following : 



The adoption of the principle of " major and service lines of work " at the 

 three State institutions; the creation of an annual conference consisting of 

 members of faculties of the institutions and the State board of education, to 

 adjust questions of overlapping not automatically determined by the establish- 

 ment of major lines for each institution ; the readjustment of the work in 

 engineering at the State University of Iowa and the Iowa State College of 

 A^Tioulture and Mechanic Arts, through a vertical division of work, assigning 

 some branches of engineering to one institution and some to the other ; the encour- 

 agement of the development of graduate work at the State university and agri- 

 cultural college along the major lines of the institutions; the exercise of greater 

 care by the graduate division of the agricultural college in admitting students 

 from other institutions to graduate standing; the creation of a standing com- 

 mittee on graduate work to consist of members of the State board of educa- 

 tion and of the institutions giving graduate work, the latter to be elected by 

 the graduate faculties ; the strict enforcement by the State board of education 

 of the pi'inciple that departments of liberal arts and sciences at the agricultural 

 college shall be simply service departments, especially the revision of the work 

 offered in the departments of economic science, geolog>', physics, and mathe- 

 matics, to conform to this principle ; the abandonment of courses in chemistry 

 at the agricultiiral college which neither contribute to the major lines of that 

 institution nor reinforce the work of the experiment stations; the revision 

 of the requirements for the degree of bachelor of science in the division of 

 industrial science to render it impossible to secure the degree except on com- 

 pletion of industrial and professional courses (in contradistinction to liberal 

 arts courses) equal in amount to those required in technical curricula; the 

 strict application of the principle of the major lines of work to the development 

 of the extension enterprises of the three State institutions; the establishment 

 of a conference on extension work, composed of members of the board of 

 education and extension oflicers of the three institutions, to discuss projects ; the 

 imposition of no external limitations upon facilities ofTere<l at the three institu- 

 tions for giving work for the training of teachers in home economics, agricul- 

 ture, and manual training until the present force of teachers In the State 

 schools is equippe<l to meet the obligations imposetl by the State law; but there- 

 after the delimitation of work In psychology and education at the agricultural 

 college to the amount requisite to meet the requirements of the first-class 

 State certificate ; the development at the university of home economics as m 

 service department, the establishment of special Itnes of work for the trainlnu 



