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AGEICULTUSAL EDUCATION. 



Twelfth annual g-eneral report of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction for Ireland (Dept. Agr. and Tech. Instr. Ireland, Ann. 

 Gen. Rpt., 12 (1911-12), pp. VI+183+356).— This is a report on the department's 

 adniiuistration aiid funds, and on the details of its work during 1911-12, includ- 

 ing agricultural instruction, and presents data corresponding to the previous 

 year (E. S. R.. 27, p. 597). 



Agricultural education and re&earch (Rpt. Bd. Agr. Scotland, 1 {1912), 

 pp. XIX-XXV). — One of the duties noted in this report of the new Board of 

 Agriculture for Scotland is " to promote, aid. and develop instruction in a,c;ri- 

 culture, forestry, and other rural industries." A bi-ief survey is given of the 

 present status of agricultural education in Scotksnd, followed by a report on the 

 work of the agricultural colleges and domestic training school^ for girls and on 

 the promotion of research. 



Scheme of agricultural education {Preston, England: Lancashire Ed. Com., 

 WIS, pp. 82, pis. 12). — This is an outline of the scheme of agricultural educa- 

 tion to be carried out in 1913-14 in Lancaster County on the County Council 

 I'arm and in the dairy, poultry, and horticultural schools at Hutton, near Pres- 

 ton, and the County Council Agricultural School at Harris Institute, Preston, 

 and in various other parts of the county. ^.. 



Agricultural education in the United States, M. Beaufreton {Rev. Econ. 

 Inlernat., 10 (1913), II, No. 1, pp. 98-125). — An account is given by the author 

 of higher and secondary agricultural instruction, the rural school, and agri- 

 cultural extension work in the United States. 



Agriculture in public high schools, D. J. Ckosbt (V. 8. Dept. Agr. Year- 

 book 1912, pp. .'ill-JiS2, pis. Jf). — The progress of agricultural training in public 

 high schools and colleges of the United States is briefly summarized in this 

 article, showing that where 16 years ago there was no public high school teaching 

 agriculture, there are now 1,910, of which 2S9 receive state aid. Types of sec- 

 ondary schools in which agriculture is taught are described, and data are 

 given showing what 11 States have done in the way of appropriating funds to 

 encourage the teaching of the subject. The article further outlines the char- 

 acter of the instruction given in the high school with reference to classroom 

 instruction, laboratory and field work, ngrouomy. animal husbandry and dairy- 

 ing, horticulture, rural engineering and farm mechanics, community work, etc. 



Nev.- ideals in rural schools, G. H. Betts (Boston, Neio York, and Chicago, 

 1913, pp. X+128). — The author sees in the rural school the most potent factor 

 in the country life movement as well as the most powerful check against the 

 present drift from the farm. The new demand for efficiency is reaching the 

 rural school and making itself felt in the relations of the school to the commu- 

 nity, in the rural school curriculum, and in the teaching itself. Each of these 

 phases is treated with discrimination and with a constructive aim in view. 



School gardens (Jour. Ed. [Boston], 77 (1913), No. 20, pp. 551, 552). — 

 School gardening has become an integral part of the school system in Memphis. 

 Tenn., where the work is officially recognized and supervisors are employed by 

 the school boards to direct it. 



About 30 garden sites, varying from one-half acre to 1 acre, near the respec- 

 tive schools, have been prepared, and the necessary garden implements and 

 seeds provided. About 2,000 boys from the fifth to the eighth grades, inclusive, 

 devote li hours each week to gardening under the supervisor and principal, 

 while the girls of the corresponding grades sew. 



A model school garden at the agricultural exposition of Paris in 1913, 

 J. Veeciee (Jour. Agr. Prat., n. ser., 25 (1913), No. IJf, pp. 439-U2, fig. 1).— 



