19161 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATTO?^^. 895 



The success of Uie first rural science scliool iu the Province for tiio trnhiiiij,' 

 of teachers In nature study and elementary agriculture in 1914, at Woodstock, 

 led to the organization of two such schools — at Woodstock and Sussex— iluring 

 the past summer. The enrollment at these schools was 65 and 115, i-espect.lvely. 

 Tlie first school fair was held during the year. The work of the agricultural 

 school's at Woodstock sind Susses was limited to short courses of from a few 

 days to 6 weeks in length, but it is planned to develop longer courses as the 

 work progr^tf?es. There are now 80 women's institutes with a total membership 

 of 2,400. Their activities included patriotic work, agricultural lectures, ex- 

 hibits, and short courses. 



The General Direction of Agricultural Instruction (Mm. Agr. Argentina, 

 Mem. Gong. Nac., WIS, pp. 67-89). — Brief reports are given on the work In 

 1913 of the agricultural education s<>rvice in Argentina, including 4 technical 

 or special agricultural schools, 11 district practical agricultural schools of 

 which 3 are in process of organization, agricultural extension work by 20 dis- 

 trict agronomes, and 7 experiment stations in connection with agricultural 

 schools. 



[Agriculture and forestry instruction in Austria] {Land u. f'orstw. Unter- 

 richtg. Ztg^ Z9 (1915), No. S-Ji, pp. [V+99-226, figs. 7).— This number contains 



(1) special articles as follows: The Reform of the Final Examination at the 

 Intermediate Agricultural Schools, by K. Kolb ; Forty-Year Development of the 

 Intermediate Agricultural School at Prerau, Moravia, by T. Adamec ; The Four- 

 Year Course at the Francisco-Josephinum, by E. Vital ; The Present Status of 

 Instruction in Fishery at the Agricultural and Forestry Schools in Austria, 

 Together with Suggestions for Its Future Organization, by O. Haempel ; and 

 The Agricultural Schools and the Care of (War) Invalids, by A. Kastner; 



(2) a review of progress in 1914-15 of the agricultural and forestry institutions 

 of Axistria; (3) a review of agricultural literature; and (4) notes. 



Tentative course of study for United States Indian Schools {U. S. Depf. 

 Int., Off. Indian Aff. [P«5.], 1915, pp. y/+S-S95).— This course, prepared 

 under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has been planned 

 with the vocational aim very clearly and positively dominant, with special 

 emphasis on agriculture and home making. It consists of three divisions, 

 namely, primary (first 3 grades), prevocational (grades 4-6, inclusive), and 

 a vocational 4-year course above the sixth grade. Outlines of the course for 

 each year are followed by a description of the subjects. 



Gardening is given in the first 2 grades and the study of plants in the 

 third. The prevocational work includes instruction in gardening, dairying, 

 stock raising, plant production, roads, care of implements, and beautifjnng 

 home grounds, farm carpentry and blacksmithing, farm engineering, farm 

 masonry, painting and shoeing, and harness repairing. There are given to 

 class instruction 11 hours per week and 22J hours to practical application. In 

 the vocational course class instruction is given in agricultural botany, soils 

 and soil fertility, farm and household physics, agricultural chemistry, field 

 crops, plant diseases, insects and insecticides, and rural economics, 20 weeks 

 each; and farm practice in farm implements, horticulture, types and breeds of 

 farm animals, and feeds and feeding, each 40 weeks, with li hours a week 

 of insti-uction and 22* hours a week of application. 



For the girls instruction is given in the first 3 grades in sewing, lace making, 

 housekeeping, cooking, planning and serving meals, care of cows and milk, 

 butter making, kitchen gardening, and poultry raising. In gr.ndes 3 to G 

 theoretical and practical instruction is given in home training, including the 

 care of the house, water supply, personal hygiene, housekeepers' responsi- 

 bilitl^ motherhood, child welfare, cooking, poultry raising, sewing, laundering. 



