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A rural school experiment, S. S. Rittenberg (Clemson Agr. Col. S. C, Ext. 

 Div. [Pub.], 1916, Jan., pp. 24, pis. S).— This is a report on the first year's work 

 of a plan undertaken as an experiment in Darlington County, S. C, in Sep- 

 tember, 1914, for the purpose of giving agriculture in rural schools and solving 

 the problem of the lack of competent teachers. 



The agricultural instruction in five selected consolidated schools was placed 

 iu charge of J. N. Napier. Each school had three acres of land for field crop 

 demonstrations and one acre for orchard work. The preliminary work, weekly 

 program, classroom, field, club, and demonstration work, and the effects of the 

 plan on the pupil, the parents, the educational conditions in the county, and 

 the agriculture of the community at large are discussed. 



During the first year the expenses were $2,500, including the salary, cost of 

 automobile, and traveling expenses of the teacher. This year three agricul- 

 tural teachers are giving instruction in 14 schools and are receiving a total of 

 $5,700, including salaries of $2,500, $1,800, and $1,400, respectively, and trav- 

 eling expenses. At present nearly three-fifths of the total enrollment of boys 

 from the sixth grade upward are being taught practical agriculture. There 

 are now more than 700 boys attending the public schools of the county, and 

 under this method it is thought that five teachers can instruct all these boys 

 in practical agriculture at a cost not exceeding $10,000 or $12,000. If the 

 experiment proves successful after a two-year trial it is planned to adopt it 

 throughout the State. 



Elementary agricultural instmction (Agr. Oaz. Canada, 3 (1916), No. 1, 

 pp. 60-77, figs. 5). — This is a review and forecast of elementary agricultural 

 instruction in the provinces of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. 



Farm and home management schools and agricultural housekeeping 

 schools (Ztschr. Landw. Kammer Schlesien, 19 (1915), Nos. ^7, pp. 12^5, 12^6; 

 50, pp. 1317, 1318, fig. 1; 51, pp. 1342-13U, fig. i).— An account is given of the 

 aim and instruction of farm and home management schools and of agricul- 

 tural housekeeping schools. The former are intended for the daughters of 

 large farm owners and for the training of teachers of home economics for 

 agricultural housekeeping schools and itinerant cookery schools, while the 

 latter are for the daughters of medium and small farmers. Applicants for 

 admission to the former, especially to the seminar courses, must have com- 

 pleted at least a ten-year course at a higher girls' school or must take a 

 special entrance examination, while the completion of the common school is 

 sufficient for admission to the housekeeping schools. 



Report of the department of agriculture of Sweden, 1913 (K. Lanthr. Styr. 

 [Sweden] Underddniga Ber. 1913, pp. [10]-}-648, figs. 2). — This report contains 

 the usual accounts of the various agencies for the promotion of Swedish agri- 

 culture, including the work of agricultural, horticultural, dairy, and house- 

 keeping schools and dairy, chemical, and seed-control stations. 



Women's work in agriculture in peace and war (Jour. Bd. Agr. [London], 

 22 (1915), No. 9, pp. 859-866). — A review is given of the report of the Agri- 

 cultural Education Conference on Agricultural Education for Women and of 

 a circular letter to the secretaries of the county war agricultural committees 

 on the employment and training of women, followed by an account of the ex- 

 perience of some farmers who have recently engaged women to take the place 

 of men who have enlisted. 



The Agricultural Education Conference finds that (1) the instruction avail- 

 able in England for women consists of courses in men's institutions which 

 admit women students, and additional short courses or classes for women 



