1917] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 597 



and each institution should give graduate instruction only in its major sub- 

 jects. Graduate courses in education may be given at each institution. 



The president of the agricultural college should have general control of 

 the experiment station and of its branches and of the extension department, 

 and be held responsible to the board of regents for their management. Men 

 and women engaged in research work at the experiment station at Fargo should, 

 except in case of those whose duties are such as to make it inexpedient, be ex- 

 pected to teach some classes in the college, and the experiment station and its 

 farms and laboratories, as well as the laboratories of the regulatory services, 

 should be used under necessary restrictions as teaching agencies for undergrad- 

 uate college students and as research agencies for graduate stadeuts. It is rec- 

 ommended that a careful study be made of the operations of the substations and 

 demonstration farms, with a view to determining whether or not much of the 

 experimental work now under way might be carried on by farmers on their own 

 premises without other expense to the State than that of necessary supervision. 



The forestry and nursery work required of the school of forestry at Bot- 

 tineau should be put under the direction of the agricultural college and all 

 necessary instruction of college gi'ade in forestry given at Fargo. 



A survey of educational institutions of the State of Washington (U. S. 

 Bur. Ed. Bui. 26 (1916), pp. 228, figs. .^6).— This is a report of a survey made 

 under the direction of the U. S. Commissioner of Education, at the request of 

 the commission of educational survey created by the State legislature, of the 

 State institutions of higher education, and such a study of the elementary 

 and secondary schools and of the preparation of teachers in these schools as 

 was deemed necessary to an intelligent consideration of the functions and 

 standards of the higher schools. A report of the findings and recommendations 

 of the commission of educational survey, as submitted to the governor, is 

 included. Subsequent action of the legislature has been previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 36, p. 296). 



Agricultural instruction. — The Central Development Farm, Weraroa, F. S. 

 Pope {Jour. Agr. [Neic Zeal.]. U (1911), No. 2, pp. SS-S8).— The author briefly 

 discusses the defects in existing schemes of agricultural education and devel- 

 opment in New Zealand, and the objects of the Central Development Farm 

 (operated until recently as the Weraroa Experimental Farm), which is in- 

 tended as the main factor in a system to overcome these difficulties. 



Report of the agricultural society of Malmohus Province for 1916 (Malmo. 

 Ldns. Hushdll. SdUsk. KvrtUskr., 1916, No. 4, pp. VIII +505-928, figs. 2).— The 

 activities of the society reported on include the work of the farm schools at 

 Vilan, Fridhem, and Skurup, the dairy school at Nasbyg3.rd, the agricultural 

 school at Dala, the home economics schools at Fridhem and Ostra Grefrie, the 

 dairy school at Alnarp, the fruit culture school at Apelryd, special courses in 

 agriculture and home economics for adults and teachers, the seed-control 

 station at Lund, the chemical station at Alnarp, the swine breeding stations, etc. 



What is the Smith-Hughes bill providing Federal grants to vocational 

 education? And what must a State do to take advantage of the Federal 

 vocational education law? (Nat. Sac. Prom. Indus. Ed. Bui. 25 (1917), pp. 

 1-42). — This bulletin contains information as to the essential points of the 

 Federal Aid Vocational Education- Act (E. S. R., 36, p. 701) and of the steps 

 the States should take to secure the benefits of the act ; the text of the act ; 

 tables showing the Federal funds available for each State ; principles and 

 policies of vocational education as a means for the educational conservation of 

 children ; principles and policies that should underlie State legislation ; and a 

 form of bill, for enactment by a State accepting the act, framed and distributed 

 by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. 



