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concerning the trade in agricultural and other products, showing sources and 

 destination. 



Review of the trade of India, 1914-15 (Dept. Statis. India, Rev. Trade 

 India, 1914-15, pp. II+139-\-VII, pis. 7, figs. 5).— This report gives a review of 

 the effects of the war on the foreign and inland trade of India, as well as 

 statistical data showing the imports and exports by articles, wholesale prices, 

 wages paid in selected industries, customs revenue, number and tonnage of 

 vessels engaged in foreign and coastwise trade, and freight rates. Comparative 

 data are given for earlier years. 



AGRICULTUEAL EDUCATION. 



Graduate work in horticulture, M. J. Doesey (Proc. Soc. Eort. Sci., 11 

 {191Jj), pp. 70-77). — The relation between the present status of horticulture and 

 graduate work or advanced training which will so intimately influence future 

 development is discussed, including a consideration of the preliminary training 

 for graduate work, the laboratory method, the relation between graduate work 

 and station research, and factors influencing graduate work. The author con- 

 cludes that " emphasis must be placed again and again upon fundamental train- 

 ing, as well as upon a knowledge of the material. Science, truth, and proof are 

 just the same in the applied fields as in the pure sciences, and this should be 

 made clear to every graduate student. When full recognition is given to this, 

 research will mean just as much scientifically in the applied fields as in the 

 pure sciences, and the weakness of one-sided practical training will become 

 more and more apparent." 



Required trips for horticultural students, F. N. Fagan (Proc. Soc. Hort. 

 Sci., 11 (1914), pp. 37-40). — The author gives an account of a horticultural 

 inspection trip taken with 24 students in the summer of 1914, visiting fruit and 

 seed farms, vegetable forcing and trucking, flower growing, and spray machin- 

 ery places, nurseries, parks, canning and evaporation houses, greenhouse firms, 

 basket and barrel factories, and cold storages, in western New York and north- 

 ern and northwestern Pennsylvania. This was accomplished in about 28 or 30 

 working days, at an average expense of from $80 to $130 a man. 



These trips have been required of junior horticultural students at the Penn- 

 sylvania College since the summer of 1913. To receive the six credits allowed 

 for this summer work the students must submit during the first half of their 

 senior year a typewritten report of the trip. Prior to 1913 junior horticultural 

 students were required to spend at least six weeks working on commercial 

 horticultural farms. It was found, however, in many cases that the students 

 often were not engaged in true horticultural work on these farms and were 

 given one job practically the entire summer. Hence the inspection trips were 

 substituted for this work. 



One phase of agricultural education in Indiana: Supervision of home 

 project work, Z. M. Smith (Dept. Pub. Instr. [/ncZ.], Ed. Pubs., Bui. 22 (1916), 

 pp. 28, figs. 26). — This bulletin reports on (1) the supervision by 21 teachers 

 of home-project work in Indiana in 1915, comprising the work of 7 vocational 

 agricultural teachers, employed by as many townships as supervisors of sum- 

 mer projects of 136 men and boys, and the work of 14 teachers employed 

 jointly by the local authorities and the Purdue University extension depart- 

 ment in supervising the projects of 420 boys and girls; (2) home problems 

 reached; (3) the supervision of club project work by county agricultural 

 agents who organized 112 clubs with a total membership of 3,697 boys and 

 girls; (4) the short-course week at Purdue Univei-sity in .January, 1916, which 



