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tional home economics education in South Dakota under the Smith-Hushes 

 Act for 1918-19. It is planned that in the vocational home economics course 

 in the high school at least lialf the time shall be devoted to practice work and 

 related subjects. Outlines are given of the 4-year and 2-year home economics 

 courses for the vocational schools. 



The training of teachers of vocational agriculture, W. G. Hummel (Fed. 

 Bd. Vocat. Ed. Bnl. 21 {1919), pp. 47).— The author discusses the qualifica- 

 tions and training desirable for teachers of vocational agriculture, the neces- 

 sity for such qualifications, the special facilities and conditions needed in 

 order to cai*ry on such training successfully, the training of si)eoial teachers 

 of agriculture, the certification of teachers, the training of teachers in service 

 by means of itinerant teaching, agricultural teachers' meetings and confer- 

 ences, professional Improvement projects, and the foundation for the training 

 of teacliers in service, viz, cooperation between the agricultural teacher- 

 training institution and the supervisor of agricultural education in a State. 



Vocational education: Bibliography of Goverunieiit publications suitable 

 for use of agriculture classes in elementary and secondary schools, W. T. 

 Skilling (Cal. State Bd. Ed. Bui. 23B {1010), pp. 26).— This is a bibliography 

 of Farmers' Bulletins of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, with brief de- 

 scriptions, topically arranged. 



Agriculture in Ohio elementary schools. — A manual for teachers of grades 

 7 and 8, F. P^. Heald and A. Dille {[Columbus, Ohio]: State Bept. Pub. Instr., 

 1919, pp. 178). — The material outlined in this manual, which is arranged in 

 seasonal sequence, includes in each year one main crop and one principal 

 animal study, while poultry and gardening lessons recur throughout the entire 

 two years. The subject matter for one year is not planned to be more ele- 

 mentai-y than, or prerequisite for, the other. It is recommended that in the 

 smaller schools the two grades should be combined for agriculture, and the 

 two years' work done in alternate years. Each lesson suggests problems, 

 sources of information, illustrative material, class exercises, practical exer- 

 cises or projects, and correlations. 



Laboratory manual in field crops, C. C. Farb {New York: The Maonillan 

 Co., 1918, pp. X+6.3, pi. 1, figs. 5). — A series of practicums in field crops, in- 

 tended to equip the high-school student as a " practitioner agriculturist."' 



Garden crops: Production and preservation, L. S. IviNS {Chicago: Rand 

 McNally d Co., 1919, pp. 335, figs. 112). — This book is intended primarily as a 

 textbook for schools below the tentli gi*ade, but may be found useful also 

 by senior high schools or special vocational departments desiring a less 

 advanced course in gardening, as well as by individuals interested in the sub- 

 ject. Section 1 of the text discusses the production of the most important 

 garden crops grown in this country and presents problems and projects for 

 classroom and outdoor work. Section 2 tells liow such crops may I)e preserved 

 and stored. Outlines for study and for home and community work are also 

 included in most of the chapters of the first two sections. Section 3 con- 

 sists of suggestions to teachers on lesson assignments, projects and problems, 

 types of gardens, school exhibits of garden crops, score cards, suggestive 

 record and report forms, etc. 



Suggestions for the study of weeds in agriculture in the elementary 

 schools, F. T. Ullrich {Bui. State Norm. School, I'lattcvllle, Wis., 15 [10J9], 

 No. J/, pp. 22, figs. 12). — Suggestions are offered to teachers for the selection 

 and organization of inforn^ation on weeds. 



Forest study in the primary grades, E. R. Mosher {[Lansing, Mich.]: Ptib. 

 Domain Com. Mich. [1018]. pp. 76', figs. .'/2). — According to the author this 

 publication is primarily intended to stimulate and assist the teacher by giving 



