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with the latter predominating in the final year, would appear almost ideal. 

 In British Columbia the school garden is found to have important advantages 

 over the home garden, but home gardening is deemed best suited to pupils of 

 grades 7 and 8 or form 4. In other words, school gardening, which is more 

 the broadly educational in its bearing, is the logical antecedent of home gar- 

 dening, which is rather narrower in its scope and which as a rule makes larger 

 demands upon the individual pupil. 



Attention is called to the danger becoming apparent in Canada of regarding 

 home gardening and related agricultural home projects as a preparation upon 

 the part of pupils for the holding of a large and sensational school fair, the 

 success of which is^ too apt to be estimated in the number of entries and tho 

 size of the crowd, whereas it should be only an incident in the year's work to 

 arouse an interest among the people and the children themselves. Scores to 

 be taken into consideration in awarding prizes at school fairs to overcome the 

 tendency of making the winning of distinction the chief incentive of the woi-k 

 are also discussed. 



School and home gardening for elementary schools in Oregon, M. O. 

 Evans, jk. (Orcg. Agr. Col. Bui. 176, pp. 23, figs. 22).— The author oilers sug- 

 gestions on the organization and cultivation of school and home gardens for 

 elementary schools in Oregon. 



Educative and economic possibilities of school-directed home gardening 

 in Bichmond, Ind., J. L. Randall (JJ. S. Bur. Ed. Bui. 6 (1917), pp. 25, ;>/*. 

 ^). — This bulletin contains a report of a study, made in cooperation witli the 

 Indiana vocational education survey, of the possibilities of home gardening 

 directed by the public scliools in the city of Richmond, Ind. 



It is recommended that the Board of Education of Richmond establish a 

 complete department of home gardening un<ler the direction of the i)ublic 

 schools within the next three years. The aims should be to train many people 

 to produce their own vegetables and small fruit foods, and to carry out other 

 avocational home projects which may have economic value to the people of the 

 city. A vocational agricultural course should be given for high school stu<lent5 

 from the country and for those of the city who wish to take up farming as a 

 life work. The course should be given by a teacher with theoretical and prac- 

 tical training in agriculture, who should be employed for twelve months and 

 should also be the general home garden supervisor, giving one-half of his time 

 to the high school work. 



Supervised home project work, Z. M. Smith (Dept. Pub. In^tr. [Ind.], Ed. 

 Pubs., Bui. 19 (i&i7), pp. -U' fiffs. 24)- — This is a report on the project work 

 in Indiana during the past year, including the larger purpose of this work, 

 tlie income and profit, how the results were accomplished, and the value of 

 close supervision and of county agents as supervisors. Suggestions are offered 

 on organization for home project work and school credit for such work. A 

 suggested list of projects, outlines of projects, a basis of awards for use in 

 annual exhibit contests, and a list of references to literature for use in Imme 

 project and club work are included. 



Supplementary lessons in West Virginia agriculture {Morgantotcn: W. Va. 

 Univ. [1916, pp. 157, fi(is. 35]). — This is a bound collection of all the l>oys' 

 corn, potato, pig, and poultry club, and girls' tomato, strawberry, and rasp- 

 berry club instruction sheets, accompanied by directions to teachers on the use 

 of the sheets in making the instruction in agriculture in the rural schools of 

 the State more practical and concrete. Suggestions for correlations with otlier 

 school subjects are included. 



