1917] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 495 



as the preservation of food, the handling of the school lunch, the use of small 

 tools, social customs, labor-saving equipment for farm and home, public-health 

 questions, shelter, family income, sanitation, civic responsibilities, etc. The 

 lessons in the second group are arranged in three plans, designed respectively 

 for schools having one 60-minute period a week in the sixth grade and two 

 80-minute periods a week in the seventh and eighth grades for Industrial work ; 

 those having two 60-minute periods a week in the seventh and eighth grades ; 

 and those having one 80-rainute period a week in the seventii and eighth 

 . gi-ades. The work of the sixth grade involves the principles and processes of 

 garment making carried out with simple garments ; that of the seventh grade 

 relates to the care of the house and its equipment, laundry work, the care of 

 children, the planning and preparation of meals, garment making, and the 

 care and repair of clothing; the eighth grade work deals with home manage- 

 ment, including the responsibility of the home maker, the family income, an 

 efficient home, shelter, house planning, labor-saving equipment, cooking, plan- 

 ning, preparation, and serving of meals, hou.sehold accounts, the care of young 

 children and of the sick, civic responsibilities, elementary dressmaking, the 

 study of clothing, etc. 



Part 2 consists of outlines for manual training. 



The organization and administration of a collegiate department in poultry 

 husbandry, H. R. Lewis {Jour. Anier. Assoc. In^tr. and Invest. Poultry Hush., 

 S (1917), No. 7, pp. 49-^2, 53, 54). — In this discussion of the most essential 

 factors of the successful organization and administration of a department of 

 poultry husbandry, the author calls .special attention to the importance of de- 

 partment individuality and unity of departmental responsibility, and of a defi- 

 nite, clean-cut organization. In his opinion responsibility for the policy, ad- 

 ministration, and efficiency of all research, instruction, and extenson work 

 should be centered in one individual, who should be professor of poultry hus- 

 bandry in the college and poultry husbandman in the station. Next in line and 

 responsible to him should be a number of scientifically trained men, viz., an 

 instructor in the college, a research assistant in poultry husbandry, an extension 

 specialist in poultry husbandry, and a research biologist. In order that their 

 highly specialized activities may not result in a narrow viewpoint, it is desir- 

 able that each division head should be given some work in the other branches, 

 that is, the instructor and research speciali.st should at some time during the 

 year go around the State to do some extension teaching and thus get in con- 

 tact liersonally with the problems of the commercial poultrymen, thereby be- 

 coming intimately associated with the questions which must be investigated 

 and taught. 



Weekly staff meetings of the department, at which the head of each division 

 makes a written report as to the condition of the work for which he is respon- 

 sible; special conference hours between the head of the department and mem 

 bers of the staff for the discussion of problems In detail ; issuing regular depart- 

 mental instructions in the forms of a single, loose-leaf note book, which can 

 be added to from time to time; and planning and arranging all important de- 

 partmental activities by means of conferences also are .suggested as conducive to 

 efficiency. Methods of keeping In touch with the res^ults of research projects 

 and extension activities are also suggested. 



