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ries, etc, playgrounds, agricultural education, consolidation of county schools, 

 and nature-study agriculture in country life education. This last chapter 

 deals particularly with school and home gardens, and a 10 years' summary of 

 the Winnebago County Farmer Boys' Experiment Club. 



Special report on agriculture and domestic science made by the state board 

 of regents (Charleston, W. Va.: Dept. of Schools, 1312, pp. 75, pis. 2, figs. 19).— 

 This report, made November 21, 1912, contains a full discussion of the agri- 

 cultural conditions and possibilities of West Virginia, means of improving 

 agriculture and rural life, and equipment needed for the university and second- 

 ary and elementary schools, together with some results of special efforts in 

 other countries and States along agricultural lines. 



The teaching' of agriculture in the rural schools of Texas, C. H. Winkler 

 (Bui. Univ. Texas, 1012, No. 251, pp. 41-4^)- — Some of the obstacles that now 

 prevent efficient teaching of agriculture in the public schools are briefly dis- 

 cussed, and suggestions given on how agriculture may be included in an over- 

 crowded schedule. 



Ag'ricultui-al education (Proc. Agr. Soc. Trinidad and Tobago, IS [1913], 

 No. 2, pp. 51-61). — This gives the report of an agricultural education com- 

 mittee, appointed by the governor, on the present status and requirements of 

 agricultural education in Trinidad, and the report of a select committee of 

 the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago on the preceding report, mak- 

 ing further recommendations. 



Agricultural instruction under the supervision of the chamber of agricul- 

 ture (Jahrcsber. Landw. Rammer Prov. Posen, 1910, pp. 104-114)- — -^ report on 

 the agricultural winter schools, special and agricultural schools, rural continua- 

 tion courses, agricultural instruction in the army, and itinerant instruction for 

 1909-10, under the supervision of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Province 

 of Posen. 



Practical training of farm managers, E. Langenbeck (Mitt. Deut. Landw. 

 Gesell., 28 (WIS), No. 2, pp. 2'i-26). — A discussion of the practical training of 

 farmers' sons either by changing from one farm to another or through the 

 farm school. The plan of practical training given in connection with the agri- 

 cultural winter schools in Norway is described. 



Agricultural home economics instruction for women, Mrs. O. Buss.ajjd 

 (Vie Agr. et Ruralc, 1911, No. 2, pp. 40-43, figs. 5).— The author describes the 

 following phases of home economics instruction in Belgium: (1) Itinerant 

 schools, (2) home economics sections in connection with secondary schools, 

 (3) agricultural home economics schools or professional institutes, and (4) an 

 agricultural high school for girls at Heverle. 



Project for the organization of professional agricultural instruction in 

 Prance (Bui. Mens. Off. Renseig. Agr. [Paris], 11 {1912), No. 12, pp. 1648- 

 1667). — This is an outline of a project, together with detailed information, for 

 the reorganization of the system of agricultural instruction in France as pre- 

 sented to the Chamber of Deputies by the ministers of agriculture, public in- 

 struction, and finance. 



Course of study in industrial education including domestic science, man- 

 ual training, and agriculture for the schools of New Mexico, Manette A. 

 Myeks ([Santa Fe]: State Dept. Ed.. 1913, pp. 51). — This course is in com- 

 pliance with the New Mexico laws of 1912 which empower the state board of 

 education to prescribe and adopt a course of study for industrial education, in- 

 cluding agi'i culture, manual training, and home economics, and covers the first 

 eight grades. 



A one-year course in secondary ag:riculture, G. A. Beickeb (Ohio Teacher, 

 S2 (1911), No. 1, pp. 13). — ^This course has been prepared for the township 



