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tural courses of 40 weeks each, with a three-hour lecture a week, for young 

 farmers and teachers. Theoretical instruction is given in chemistry, botany, 

 zoology, and physics, and practical knowledge in the tilling of the soil, the use 

 of agricultural tools, drainage, manuring, cattle rearing, dairy work, and the 

 cultivation of agricultural plants adapted to local conditions. The minimum 

 age at which pupils are admitted is 15 years. 



Elementary courses were started in March and secondary courses in May, 

 1915. Agricultural instruction in Surinam is entirely separate from elemen- 

 tary education and is under the supervision of the director of agriculture. 



Horticultural winter schools, H. R. Jung {Gartenflora, 65 {1916), No. 1-2, 

 pp. li-18).—To meet the need of better facilities for elementary horticultural 

 instruction in Germany, the author recommends the establishment of horticul- 

 tural winter schools in connection with the agricultural winter schools, and 

 outlines suggested regulations, subject matter, and a weekly schedule of hours 

 for such schools. 



Report of the work of the School Garden Association in 1913 and 1914 

 {Bcr. For. Skolchav. Virks. [Denmark], 1913-14, pp. 31, figs. 11). — This report 

 contains a summary of the school garden work in Denmark in 1913 and 1914, 

 followed by brief reports on the work of several of the 70 individual gardens 

 now there. 



Regulations for grants in aid of agricultural education and research in 

 England and Wales, 1916-17 {London: Bd. of Agr. and Fisheries, 1915, pp. 

 22). — This pamphlet deals with the conditions under which grants are awarded 

 through the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries from the Development Fund 

 or parliamentary appropriations. 



Second thousand answered questions in California agriculture, E. J. Wick- 

 son {San Francisco: Pacific Rural Press, 1916, pp. 254). — These questions and 

 answers relate to fruit and vegetable growing, grains and forage crops, soils, 

 fertilizers, irrigation, live stock and dairying, feeding animals, diseases of ani- 

 mals, poultry keeping, and pests and diseases of plants. The book is a sequel 

 to One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered (E, S. R., 31, 

 p. 494), and avoids duplication of the preceding volume. 



Elementary vocational agriculture for Maryland schools, E. A. Miller 

 {Md. Agr. Col. Bui, 12 {1915), No. 8, pp. 222, figs. 70).— This is the complete 

 series of monthly publications, from September to May inclusive, setting forth 

 lessons in elementary vocational agriculture, outlined after a monthly sequence 

 plan, and adapted to the seasonal, agricultural, and school conditions of Mary- 

 land, of which the first issue has been noted (E. S. R., 33, p. 695). The lessons 

 treat of the following subjects: The soil, crops, the orchard, vegetable, fruit, 

 and flower gardening, poultry, dairying, farm animals, buildings for farm 

 animals, farm accounts, insects, plant diseases, silage, rope— knots, hitches, 

 and splices, nature study, school ground improvement, and management sug- 

 gestions. Each lesson comprises classroom work, practical exercises consisting 

 largely of club activities and home projects, suggested correlations, and refer- 

 ences to the literature. 



Extension course in soils for self-instructed classes in movable schools of 

 agriculture, A. R. Whitson and H. B. Hendrick {U. S. Dept. Agr. Bnl. 355 

 {1916), pp. y^).— This course is designed to aid agricultural colleges in their 

 extension work and is intended for the use of small groups of farmers assem- 

 bled as a class to study the subject in a systematic manner, with one of their 

 number as leader. An entire day is to be consumed by each of the 12 lessons, 

 the forenoon being devoted to the subject matter and reference work and the 

 afternoon to the practical exercises outlined. Reference books, apparatus, and 

 supplies are listed in an appcMidix. 



