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and nursing. The 4-year vocational course endeavors to train Indian girls to 

 become model housev?ives, and includes 4 years of theoretical and practical 

 instruction in cooking, sev/ing, and nursing. 



Methods of instruction in agriculture, E. S. Sell {Bui. State Normal School 

 [AtJien^s, Ga.], S {IS 16), No. S. pp. 29). — This bulletin contains 42 lessons for 

 recitation and 34 exercisci;, each requiring a class period, adapted to the rural 

 and villajre schools of Georgia, and arranged on a seasonal sequence plan. The 

 work can be given in 2 lessoas a week for 9 mouths or 3 lessons a week for 6 

 months, and includes a study of general principles underlying plant produc- 

 tion, field crops, fertilizers and soils, animal hunbandry, poultry raising, farm 

 implements, and farm communities. 



Suggestive outlines for agricTilture work in rural and villas schools: 

 Potatoes, L. G. Athebton {Normal Teacher [Madison, S. Dak.}, 4 {1915), No. 4. 

 pp. 16, figs. 5). — Outlines are suggested for the use of teachers in rural and 

 village schools in giving theoretical and practical instruction in potato growing. 



Practical lessons in tropical agriculture, Books H, IH, R. L. Clutb 

 {Yonkers, N. Y., and Manila, P. L: World Book Co., 1916, pp. X+S58, pi. 1, figa. 

 166; VII+251, pi. 1, figs. 120). — Book II discusses the importance of agricul- 

 ture, the farm as a place of business and as a home, farm implements and their 

 use, and preventing losses on the farm ; continues the study of the principles 

 of agriculture begun in Book I (E, S. R., 33, p. 397) ; and considers the applica- 

 tion of these principles in the growing of field crops important in the Philippines, 

 including rice, coconuts, abaca, sugar, corn, tobacco, other fiber plants, and other 

 farm crops. Studies of the silk industry and of poultry raising are Included. 

 Each chapter includes practical exercises. 



In Book III, the author discusses some of the more important fodder crops 

 and pasturage, legumes, some minor farm crops, crop rotation, fruits on the 

 farm, forests, the farmer's friends and enemies, weeds, farm animals including 

 the horse, cattle, carabaos, swine, goats, and sheep, and their diseases, farm 

 management, business methods for the farmer, business and legal papers, agri- 

 cultural fairs and food campaigns, aids for the farmer, and field excursions 

 and home projects. Ldsts of shade trees and decorative plants and agricultui'^1 

 literature, instructions to homesteaders in the Philippine Islands, and directions 

 for organizing a better farming club are appended. Suggestions to the teacher 

 are included. 



Nature study preceding agriculture, A, W. Nolan {School New^ and Pract. 

 Ed., 29 {1916), No. 10, pp. 453-455). — Suggestions are offered for nature study 

 Avork in grades 1 to 6, inclusive. 



In the author's opinion, nature study should be pre-vocational to agriculture 

 before the seventh grade of the public school. It should be differentiated from 

 technical science both in subject matter and method, and should aim to give 

 a general acquaintance with and an interest in the common things and processes 

 of nature, a training in accurate observation as a means of gaining knowledge 

 direct from nature, and useful knowledge concerning natural objects and pro- 

 cesses as they directly affect human life interests. The materials to be studied 

 must be those most common and most interesting from the standpoint of ev;^ry- 

 day life, and finally nature study must be for the child and not for the adult. 



The plant notebook, Anna B. CoifSTOCK (Ithaca, N. Y.: Comstocii rnblish- 

 mg Co., 1915, pp. 126, figs. 37). — Tliis notebook contains a study of the different 

 parts of a plant, followed by questions and blanks for the description of plants 

 studied by the pupils. 



Lessons on tomatoes for rural schools, E. A. MnxES {U. 8. Depi, Agr. Bui. 

 392 {1916), pp. 18, figs. 5).— The autlior outlines 10 lessons in a study of the 

 history, importance, and varieties of tomatoes, and the many phases Involved 



