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lege courses for women, women's institutes, and domestic science trains ; the 

 training of teachers, including the training of persons preparing to teach in 

 rural schools and of teachers already in service, the training of teachers for 

 higher schools, and the Graduate School of Agriculture; and the example of 

 Denmark in cooperative work, its people's high schools. Royal Agricultural and 

 Veterinary Institute, and rural organization. 



Rural education: A complete course of study for modem rural schools, 

 A. E. PiCKABD (St. Paul, Minn.: Webb Publishing Co., 1915, pp. 429, figs. 154).— 

 This book treats of school organization and management from the modern 

 standpoint of an industrialized rural school ; that is, a redirected course of study 

 in which a broader and better country life is the ultimate aim. It discusses 

 the proper environment and the academic, industrial, and country life work of 

 rurnl schools, including agi-icnlture and agricultural and horticultural, animal 

 husbandry, and home economics booklets; activities outside the schoolroom com- 

 prising the home credit plan, school gardens, and corn and tomato contests 

 for children, and farmers' clubs and institutes, cow testing associations, the 

 application of the tuberculin test and vaccination for hog cholera, demonstra- 

 tion work in fertilizers, pure seed, and alfalfa and drainage projects for adults, 

 and the rural school as a social center; the Minnesota plan of association of 

 rural schools with a central school for the purpo.se of getting the benefits of the 

 agricultural and industrial work done in the latter, a de.scription of the asso- 

 ciated schools at Cokato, Minn., as typical of these schools, and the advantages 

 to the rural communities of such association; and outlines of three-year 

 courses for juninr and senior high schools. 



The summer traveling practice course as a means of teaching horticulture, 

 J. E. CoiT (Cornell Countryman, 13 (191.5), No. 1, pp. 2S-32, 58, 60. fig. i).— This 

 is a description of the work of the six weeks' summer practice course in citri- 

 culture which is a uniform requirement for graduation in the College of Agri- 

 culture of the University of California. 



The course is taken at the end of the sophomore year, wlien the student has 

 completed the four agricultural fundamentals, plant propagation, soil tech- 

 ncilogy, genetics, and agiicultural chemistry, but before he has cho.sen his major 

 subject. Six units of credits are allowe<l, but the same number are simul- 

 taneously added to the total number requirefl for graduation. The author has 

 come to agree with the students in their belief that it would be better if the 

 summer practice courses were given at the end of the junior year, after stu- 

 dents have taken the general cour.se in their major subject. 



Observations on agricultural extension teaching, A. Schnider {Land\r. 

 .Jahrh. Bayern, 3 (191.3), No. 6, pp. 259-268). — Observations are given for the 

 benefit of students and beginners in the work of itinerant instruction in agri- 

 culture on the selection of subjects, preparation of lectui-es, manner of address, 

 advice to indivi<lnal farmers, etc. 



Some elementary lessons and experiments in agriculture for our Virginia 

 boys, N. S. Mayo, A. Lockhabt, and J. H. Binford (Va. Dept. Agr. and 

 Immigr., Farmers' Bui. 16 (1914), PP- 36, figs. 22). — This publication contains 

 lessons and experiments on the improvement of seed corn, judging corn, the 

 composition and use of lime on the farm, a test for acidity in the soil, plant 

 growth, cultivation, fertilizers and the part they take in the growth of crops, 

 calculating a fertilizer formula, swine, a balanced ration, spraying fruit and 

 truck crops, and directions for malcing a number of articles in wood, including 

 a corn shocker, wagon jack, plank drag, bracket shelf, kitchen table, etc. 



Exercises with plants and animals for southern rural schools. ?]. A. Miller 

 (U. a. Dcpt. Ayr. BuL 305 (1915), pp. 63, pis. 5).— This guide for the teacher 



