296 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOKD. 



Tlie nuinber of persons engaged in rural occupations in 1907 is reported at 

 37,360 males and 12,874 females, and in 1911, 41,916 males and 16,977 females. 

 Of the total number of females 9,88!) were engaged principally in dairying, 

 while only 1,608 males were so employed in 1911. 



Crop Reporter (17. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Statis. Crop Reporter, 15 {1913), No. 

 5, pp. 33-40). — Crop conditions for May 1 with comparisons for last year and 

 for a 10-year average are here reported. Notes and tables are also given show- 

 ing the acreage and yield of cotton in 1912 by States ; estimated farm value of 

 important products on April 1 and May 1 compared with the average for the 

 last 5 years; a yearly summary of the "world" production of important crops; 

 the relative importance in value of leading crops; a preliminary report on 

 Louisiana cane sugar, 1912; average prices of meat animals for each month, 

 1910-1913; a reprint of Circular 43 of the Office of the Secretary, previously 

 noted (E. S. R., 29, p. 144) ; cotton consumption statistics; a basis for interpret- 

 ing crop condition reports ; commercial apple movement, 1912 ; temperature and 

 precipitation statistics; monthly receipts and stocks of butter and eggs; and 

 range of prices of agricultural products at important markets. 



Foreig'n crops, March- April, 1913, C. M. Daugherty (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Statis. Circ. J/l, pp. 27). — This circular presents the usual notes and data show- 

 ing area, production, imports, exports, prices, etc., of specified crops in foreign 

 countries for varying periods of years. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The work of the Massachusetts Ag'ricultural College for the schools of 

 Massachusetts, W. R. Hart (Facts for Farmers [Mass. Agr. Col.]. 3 {1913), 

 No. 6, pp. 4). — This is a brief statement of the work of the agricultural educa- 

 tion department of the Massachusetts Agricultural College in (1) training 

 teachers of agriculture in the regular college courses and in the summer school, 

 and (2) the promotion of agricultural clubs to advance the teaching of agricul- 

 ture in the schools. 



The second annual report of the School Garden Association of America, 

 meeting with the National Education Association {Ann. Rpt. School Garden 

 Assoc. America, 2 {1913), pp. 57, figs. 27). — This second annual report contains 

 among other things a brief school garden bibliography, an account of the train- 

 ing of Ontario teachers for school garden work, extracts from representative 

 reports of school garden work in the United States, and outlines of practical 

 school garden work covering such matters as bulbs in the classroom, a planting 

 les.son for the individual plat holders, observation plats, greenhouses for city 

 children, and children's home gardens. 



Report of the Rural Education Conference on the qualification of teachers 

 of rural subjects {London: Bd. Agr. and Fisheries and Bd. Ed., 1911, pp. 23). — 

 This is the second report of the Rural Education Conference and deals with the 

 lack of teachers properly qualified for giving instruction in rural subjects in 

 elementary schools, and the means which should be taken to raise the standard 

 of efficiency in these subjects. 



The conference recommends that (1) the length of the ordinary training 

 college course be extended one year, not necessarily consecutive with the first 

 two years, during which teachers would be able to specialize and those desiring 

 to take up rural subjects might be allowed to do so at colleges or farm insti- 

 tutes; (2) all county local education authorities should be required to provide 

 for their existing teachers, or such future teachers as have not attended a 

 training college, evening, Saturday, or vacation classes and in connection with 

 these, two or three months' courses at an agricultural or horticultural college 



