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and clothing. The time is about equally divided between practical and cultural 

 instruction. 



Instruction in home economics is organized along similar lines. The pre- 

 apprenticeshlp instruction includes French, reading, writing, and arithmetic, 

 and practical work in cooking, sewing, cai*e of the clothes, domestic and infant 

 hygiene, first aid, laundering, etc. The products of these activities, as well as 

 of those for boys, are reserved to the pupils. 



[Report on agricultural forestry, and veterinary education in the Dutch 

 East Indies], W. G. Booesma, A. de Koning, and H. C. H. de Bie {Jaarb. Dept. 

 Landb., Nijv. en Handel Nederland, Indie, 1917, pp. 8^-89, U2-151, 198-205).— 

 This is an account of the activities of the Department of Agriculture, Industry, 

 and Commerce of the Dutch East Indies in 1917 in the promotion of agricultural 

 and veterinai'y science instruction, comprising the work of the higher agri- 

 cultural school at Buitenzorg, the secondary school of agriculture or cultiva- 

 tion school at Soekaboem (preparatory to the former), the veterinai-y school 

 at Bui-tenzorg,« and the information service for native agriculturists, including 

 special agricultural schools for farmers' sons, agricultural instruction in acad- 

 emies for native teachers and in training schools for native officials, special 

 courses and demonstrations for adults, etc. Very elementary agricultural in- 

 struction, including school gardening, is being experimentally introduced in 

 the higher grades of some village public schools. 



Agricultural instruction in Argentina, T. Amadeo (Bui. Pan Amer. Union, 

 50 (1920), No. //, pp. 420-^30, figs, ii).— This is an abbreviated version of an 

 article previously noted from another source (E. S. R., 42, p. 294). 



Vocational education under the Smith-Hughes law, 1919-20 {Ala. Dept. 

 Ed. Bui., 61 (1919-20), pp. 95, figs. 2).— This bulletin contains an outline of the 

 Alabama plan for vocational education for 1919-20 ; suggestions for making 

 application for aid under the Smith-Hughes law ; outlines of four-year coui'ses 

 in vocational agriculture and home economics for secon-dary schools, suggestive. 

 type short-unit courses in home economics for evening and part-time schools 

 and classes, and teacher-training courses in vocational agriculture and home 

 economics for white students ; courses in vocational agriculture and home 

 economics for colored schools, and courses for the training of colored teachers 

 of vocational agriculture and home economics; and the texts of the Federal 

 and State acts for vocational education. 



It is provided that one-fourth of all Federal funds accruing to Alabama in 

 any year shall be available for use in negro schools. The maximum amount of 

 20 per cent has been set aside for instruction in vocational home economics. 

 Of the Federal funds for the training of vocational teachers 40 per cent shall be 

 expended for agricultural subjects and 30 per cent for home economics subjects. 

 Teacher-training work for white students in agriculture is being undertaken 

 at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and in kome economics at the Alabama 

 Girls' Technical Institute at Montevallo. The course in agi'iculture extends 

 over 4 years and requires 170 semester hours. The county high school in 

 Auburn will serve for observation and practice teaching in agriculture. The 

 course in home economics will be extended from 3 years of college work 

 comprising 51 unit hours to 4 years' work with 68 unit hours, beginning with 

 the fall of 1920. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has been designated 

 for the training of teachers of vocational agriculture and home economics for 

 negro schools. The agricultural course will comprise 2 years' work, and the 

 2-year home-economics course will be extended to 3 years beginning with the 

 fall of 1920. 



