1917] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 293 



of hospital dietitians, and the avoidance of courses that duplicate the work at 

 the agi'icultural college in the preparation of high school teachers ; the pro- 

 vision in the near future at the agi-icultural college of enlarged accommoda- 

 tions for the department of home economics, of opportunities for preparation 

 in institutional and cafeterial management, and of special courses for the prepa- 

 ration of trade and industrial school teachers ; the improvement of the accommo- 

 dations provided for worli in home economics at ihe State Teachers College, 

 and the organization of the department under a single head ; the abandonment 

 by the agricultural college of noncollegiate work except for limited short win- 

 ter, or siunmer courses for special groups of students and the establishment of 

 corresponding work in selected high schools throughout the State under the 

 direction of the agricultural college; the general reduction of the number of 

 one and two hour courses, especially in elementary work and in the first half 

 of the college year, and of the number of small classes of 10 or under ; and 

 the inclusion of the president of the agricultural college in the membership of 

 the board of educational examiners and the inclusion of the presidents of the 

 State higher institutions ex officio in the membership of the State board of 

 education, without power to vote. 



Agricultural education in tlie high schools and common schools of the 

 State, L. S. Hawkins (iV. Y. Dept. Agr. Bui. 81 {1916), pp. lSU-iS53, pis. 

 11). — The author briefly explains how the State of New York encourages agri- 

 cultural instruction in its schools and gives a general description of the agri- 

 cultural work, particularly the home project work, being done in the 61 high 

 schools and 3 consolidated rural schools that have taken advantage of State 

 aid for agricultural instruction. 



Report of the director of elementary agricultural education for the 

 Province of British Columbia, 1914-15, J. W. Gibson {Ann. Rpt. Pub. ScJwols 

 Brit. Columbia, U {191Jf~15), pp. A~^~A85, pis. 4).— This is the first annual 

 report on elementary agricultural education in the Province of British Co- 

 lumbia. It deals with the author's view of agricultural education in the 

 schools, summer schools in rural science for public and high school teachers, 

 including outlines of courses, and with the organization of the first class in 

 high-school agriculture and of an extension class in agriculture in connection 

 therewith for young men not attending school. 



Report of the director of elementary agricultural education for the 

 Province of British Columbia, 1915-16, J. W. Gibson {Ann. Rpt. Pub. Schools 

 Brit. Columbia, 4S {1915-16), pp. ASIf-Atl, pis. 10). — This is a report on the 

 history and development of agricultural teaching in British Columbia, progress 

 of the school home gardening movement under the direction of the education 

 department, school-ground improvement, agricultural instruction in high schools 

 with district supervision, including an outline of the two-year course of study 

 by months, and extension high school classes in agriculture for young men and 

 boys over 15 years of age who are not in attendance at school. Plans of 

 school gardens are included. 



In 1915, of 100 schools with gardens, 80 qualified for the department grant. 

 In these 80 schools the gardening work was conducted by 115 teachers with 

 approximately 2,500 children. The total grant to the school boards on account 

 of school garden expenditures in 1915 was $4,052.11 and to teachers, as bonus 

 grants, $1,765.00. In 1916, 143 schools with gardens and 6,563 pupils took part 

 in the work. 



Special grants, regulations, and organization {Dept. Ed. Alberta, Tech. 

 Ed. Bui. 1, pp. 6). — This bulletin contains the regulations pertaining to the 

 payment of grants for instruction in .science, agriculture, and school gardening, 



