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manual training, household science and art, etc., and to the training and 

 certification of teacliers of these suhjects. 



For instruction in science, agriculture, and school gardening in rural and 

 village school districts an annual grant is made to the school board equal to 

 50 i)er cent of its expenditure for approved improvements and maintenance 

 of school gardens, and not exceeding $15 for approved equipment, with an 

 annual grant of $25 to the teacher. In any school district including a town 

 or city in whifh fewer than 30 teachers are employed in instruction in science, 

 agriiultiire, and related school gardening in grade.s 7 to 11, inclusive, or all 

 of suih grades as may be represented in such schools, a similar grant of 50 

 per cent is made to the board, a maximum grant of $75 for equipment, and 

 .'i;.50 to the teacher for full-time service. In a similar district in which at 

 least 30 teachers are employed in the agricultural course of grade 11 the 

 annual grant to the board is 50 per cent of its expenditure on approvetl im- 

 provements and maintenance of the necessary garden and experimental plats 

 and for equipment, $75. 



The general direction of agricultural instruction, T. Amadeo (J/in. Agr. 

 Argentina. Mcni. Cong. Xac, 19J.'f. pp. 91-101). — This is a report on the object, 

 work, equipment, and improvements of the agricultural schools and on exten- 

 sion activities in Argentina in 1914. 



Agricultural and rural extension schools in Ireland, A. C. Monahan {V. S. 

 Bur. Ed. Bui. 41 {1916), pp. S8, pis. 10).— This bulletin contain.s a brief ac- 

 count of the administration of public education in Ireland through the Commis- 

 sioners of National Education, the Intermediate Board of Commissioners, and 

 the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, together 

 with information concerning the organization of the department and a brief 

 outline of its activities. Descriptions of the principal types of agricultural 

 schools are included. 



In progression from the lt)\ver to the higher, there are for men three agri- 

 cultural station schools or farm apprenticeship institutions and three other 

 agricultural schools, the Albert Agricultural College, which is a farm-practice 

 school giving a one-year course, and the Royal College of Science, with a four- 

 year course, similar to the standard State colleges of agriculture in this country. 

 For women there are nine rural schools of domestic science, the Munster Insti- 

 tute, the Ulster Dairy Institute, the Training School for Lace Teachers, and the 

 Irish Training School of Domestic Economy for the training of teachers. 

 Itinerant instruction in agriculture, through county instructors or agricultural 

 agents, comprises schemes of instruction in poultry keeping and butter making, 

 horticulture and bee keeping, and general instruction in farming in congested 

 districts. There are also rural extension schools or winter classes in agricul- 

 ture, and, for girls, in poultry keeping and butter making; and, through the 

 division of technical instruction, rural extension schools in household arts, home 

 industries, and farm carpentry. 



Agricultural education and live stock improvement in Wales, 1913-1915, 

 C. B. Jones {Bd. Agr. and Fisheries [Lotidon], Rpt. Agr. Comr. Wales. 19 J S- 

 1915, pp. 59). — This is the report of the agricultural commissioner for Wales 

 for the years 1912-13 to 1914-15. It deals mainly with the progress made in 

 agricultural education, both in regard to the agricultural departments of the 

 colleges and the farm institute sclieme in the counties, and live-stock improve- 

 ment. A summary of the report has been previously noted (E. S. R.. 36. p. 495). 



Report on the agricultural and housekeeping schools for 1914:— 15 { .\ars- 

 ber. Offentl. Foranst. Lnndhr. Fremme, 1915. II, pp. 17//+5.19).— Detailed 

 reports are given on the faculty, students, equipment. Instruction, farm work. 



