1920] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 597 



Four-year courses in vocational agriculture and homo economics and 4-year 

 teacher-traiuiiis courses in vocational agriculture and home economics are 

 outlined. 



Iteport of the State supervisor of imricultural instruction, V. Peterson 

 (S. C. Supt. Ed. Ann. Rpt., 50 {1918), pp. y/5-7S).— This is a report on the or- 

 ganization and administration of agricultural instruction in South Carolina 

 for the year ended June 30, 1918, under the State and Smith-Hughes laws. 



The first State plan under the Smith-Hughes Act was approved Novemher 9, 

 1917, and 13 groups of schools were subsidized during the fiscal year, with an 

 eiironment of 290 pupils in agriculture. A total of about 385 acres of Held 

 and garden crops were i)roduced by these pupils. 



Teacher-training work in vocational agriculture was begun during the year 

 at Clemson College, and a comprehensive vocational course was introduced at 

 the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College. A special report on agricultural 

 instruction in Darlington County, reports from the teachers of agriculture, and 

 some of the provisions of the State plans for vocational agriculture for 1918-19 

 are included. 



Vocational agriculture in Virginia, H. Hart {Bui. State Bel. Ed. [Ta.], 2 

 {1919), A'o. 1, pp. iS-58, figs. 2). — This report by the State superintendent of 

 public instruction contains a statement of the status of vocational agriculture 

 in .secondary schools in Virginia at the time of the acceptance by the State of 

 the provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act, the statistical report of the State 

 supervisor of agriculture with reference to attendance, equipment, etc., of 

 vocational schools for the year ended June 30, 1918, and a report on the work 

 of the supervising industrial teachers for colored schools. 



.-Annual report of the public high schools of Virginia for the school year 

 J017-18, S. P. Duke {BuJ. State Bd. Ed. [To.], 1 {1918), No. 1, pp. 79, figs. 

 Id). — This report deals with constructive suggestions bearing upon high school 

 organization, supervision, and instruction, including a plan for the reorganiza- 

 tion of instruction in agriculture in rural high schools other than Smith-Hughes 

 schools in counties with agricultural demonstration agents. 



Under this plan agriculture with laboratory instruction is recommended as 

 one unit in science for all rural high schools. The subject will be given in the 

 second year or the ninth grade of the course. The year's work will include a 

 general course in agriculture in the first or fall term. At the end of this term 

 or sooner four projects will be selected for the class, to be worked out by the 

 pupils during the term and the summer vacation on the home farm or garden. 

 A minimum of one month, or 20 lessons is to be devoted to instruction and 

 laboratory work for each of the four projects, and each boy is required to devote 

 approximately 120 hours to the completion of his project out of school hours. In 

 order to provide better classroom instruction in agriculture, the county demon- 

 stration agent In agriculture will visit the high school during the second term 

 to give instruction in the technical phases of project work that can not be 

 handled by the regular teacher. A series of ten or more bulletins containing 

 a series of outlined lessons and projects to be used as text material for the 

 project work and class instruction during the spring term is to be prepared by the 

 extension department of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. On the successful 

 completion and approval of the project, one unit of high school credit will be 

 awarded in addition to the one unit credit for the regular agricultural work. 



Attention Is called to an experiment in the .solution of problems of organiza- 

 tion and administration of the small two-year high school found almost ex- 

 clusively in strictly rural districts, and which may be called the rural junior 

 high school. In order to make sure that the type of rural junior high schools 



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