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Supervised home project and club work (Ind. State Bd. Ed,, Ed. Bui. 32 

 (1918), pp. 44> figs- 27). — This bulletin deals with the organization and present 

 status of home project work in Indiana, which is now on a permanent basis, 

 and witli factors that make project work successful. Notes on the work of 

 Indiana club leaders are included. 



Prizes for boys' and girls' competitions {Agr. Gaz. Canada, 6 {1919), No. 3, 

 pp. 265-274 ) • — This is a series of articles, prepared with a view to standardiz- 

 ing on a basis of experience the wide variation of information and practice 

 with regard to prizes offered for boys' and girls' agricultural competitions. The 

 articles present the views of responsible officials in Prince Edward Island, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brimswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and of 

 various live-stock associations. 



School fairs in 1918 (Agr. Gaz. Canada, 6 (1919), No. 1, pp. 60-77, figs. 13).— 

 This is a series of brief reports by agricultural education officials on school fair 

 activities in 1918 in the Provinces of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. 



Rural community center movement (Agr. Gaz. Canada, 6 (1919), No. 9, pp. 

 809-815). — Brief statements are made of the present status of this movement 

 in the Provinces of Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta. 



In Nova Scotia the traveling rural science teachers have made a beginning 

 through the medium of school exhibitions, plays by the school children, debates, 

 clubs, etc. The clergy ai-e also assisting in bringing the church and the school 

 together in a social way. In Quebec, where the movement began about 10 years 

 ago, the factors that are believed to have played a large part in arousing an 

 interest in this movement are the clergy and the county demonstrators, the 

 homemakers' club, and Macdonald College, which, in August, 1918, held a two 

 weeks' summer school for rural improvement which was attended by nearly 

 70 persons, chiefly country ministers. The movement received an impetus in 

 Ontario with the passing of a bill and the voting of money for the establish- 

 ment of community halls and athletic fields in rural districts. The text of the 

 regulations passed under this act are given, also an outline of a course of lec- 

 tures on rural conditions and problems offered by the University of Toronto 

 in its department of social science. The movement in Manitoba is under the 

 direction of the Social Service Council, a federation representing 24 provincial 

 bodies. Its activities are indicated by the following five standing committees, 

 viz, the public forum, better business, young people, public health, and recrea- 

 tion. Comnumity halls are briefly discussed as valuable assets of the move- 

 ment in Alberta. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Thirty-second Annual Report of Nebraska Station, 1918 (Nebraska Sta. 

 Rpt. 1918, pp. 44)- — This contains the oi'ganization list, a report of the work of 

 the year, a report of the extension service of the college of agriculture, and a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. The experimental 

 work reported is for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Monthly bulletin of the Western Washing'ton Substation (Washington 

 Sta., West. Wash. Sta. Mo. Bui., 7 (1919), No. 4, pp. 53-64, fiO- j?).— This number 

 contains brief articles on the following subjects: Sheep for Farm Flocks, and 

 Control of Canadian Thistles, both by W. A. Linklater ; Summer Garden Prac- 

 tices, and Summer Pruning, both by J. L. Stahl ; Summer v. Winter Feeding of 

 Poultry, by Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Shoup ; and Some Common Fruit Diseases, by 

 A. Frank. 



