492 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



management. For many years the agricultural intermediate schools of Bohemia 

 have required students of the third year to prepare a plan of organization of 

 a farm with which they are familial'. The author thinks it preferable to 

 include this, in less detail, in the actual examination, and to make it form the 

 basis of the oral examination in the other branches. He also recommends that 

 prospective students acquire a practical experience of at least one year before 

 entering these schools. 



The equipment and work of the Lower Austrian Agricultural Education 

 Institute at Obersiebenbrunn, V. Gohlert (Land «. Forstw. Unterrichts Ztg., 

 29 {1915), No. 1-2, pp. 9-18, fig. 1). — This is a description of the buildings, 

 equipment, and instruction in agriculture and home economics of this school 

 which was opened November 16, 1914. The school offers (1) 2 consecutive 5 

 months' winter courses for farmers' sons who have completed the elementary 

 school, 15 hours a week being devoted to practical work out of a total of 33 

 hours in the first semester and 31 hours in the second semester, (2) 3 months' 

 courses in the spring and fall in cookery, housekeeping, and agriculture for farm 

 girls who have completed the elementary school, and (3) special courses of one 

 or more days for adults. Similar schools have been established at Pyhra and 

 Bruck, the latter to take the place of the school at Trautmannsdorf. 



Report of the department of agriculture of Sweden, 1912 (A'. Lantbr. Styr. 

 [Sweden] TJnderddniga Ber. 1912, pp. [S]+606). — This report contains the 

 usual accounts of the various agencies for the promotion of Swedish agriculture, 

 including reports of the work of agricultural, horticultural, dairy, and house- 

 keeping schools, and dairy, chemical, and seed control stations. 



Agricultural and technical education (Netherlands East India-San Fran- 

 cisco Com., Dcpt. Agr., Indus, and Com., Essay No. 7 {191^), pp. 47, pis. 10). — 

 This essay includes a review of the development and present status of agri- 

 cultural instruction in the Dutch East Indies, comprising the work of agricul- 

 tural officials and instructors, demonstration fields, government and private ele- 

 mentary agricultural schools, agricultural instruction in the training schools for 

 native teachers, lecture courses for employed teachers, the Higher Agricultural 

 School at Buitenzorg, the native Veterinary School at Buitenzorg. a course of 

 instruction for cattle and meat inspectors, the secondary agricultural school 

 known as the School of Cultivation, at Soekaboemi, Java, and the information 

 service for native agi-iculture. 



The work of educated women in horticulture and agriculture, Mrs. R. 

 WiLKiNS {Jour. Bd. Agr. [London], 22 {1915), Nos. 6, pp. 55^-569; 7. pp. 616- 

 g^2). — This report is the outcome of an inquiry made by the Women's Farm and 

 Garden Union for the purpose of ascertaining what openings exist for educated 

 women to take up some form of agricultural or horticultural worlc as a profes- 

 sion. It discusses the training available to women in the various branches of 

 horticulture and agriculture, prospects for subsequent employment, and data 

 on the training, experience, and success or failure of women actually engaged in 

 agi-icultural and horticultural work. 



It is found that in horticulture, until the outbreak of the war, salaricfl posi- 

 tions were limited in number and salaries were low relatively to the expense of 

 training and did not admit of saving for illness or old age. Putting aside those 

 who have set up on their own account, a few of whom have struck out along 

 new lines and done well, practically none was making an entire living without 

 the aid of pupils, but those who started under proper conditions were supple- 

 menting small incomes and leading the outdoor life which they prefer. The 

 same conclusions were also drawn as to farming on a small scale, in normal 

 times there being practically no salaried positions at a living wage for educated 

 women in farming. 



