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Report of the Department of Agriculture of Norway for 1917 (Aarsber. 

 Offentl. Foranst. Landbr. Fremme, 1917, III, StatHforunst., pp. [5]-\-5+V- 

 XCVIII+711, i)ls. 3, figs. 58). — This is the annual report for 1917 on the activi- 

 ties of the various government agencies for the promotion of agriculture in 

 Norway, including chemical, seed, and milk control stations, experimental 

 farms, sheep farms, dairy and horticultural schools, the scliool of home eco- 

 nomics for training teachers, itinerant instructors, etc. 



Beport of the Department of Agriculture of Sweden, 1916 (K. Lantbr. Styr. 

 [Sweden] Underddnif/a Bcr. 11)16, pp. \.10]-{-183-\-X, fig. 1). — This is the annual 

 report on the activities of the various agencies for the promotion of Swedish 

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

 keeping schools, dairy, chemical, and seed control stations, and the extension 

 service. 



Ninth annual report of the eleven district agricultural schools of Georgia, 

 J. S. Stewart (G'a. State Col. Agr., Bui. 155 (1918), pp. 1,0, fig- i).— This report 

 contains the organization lists of these schools; statements of improvements in 

 the school plants during 1917-18, of extension vrork, including home projects 

 cooperation with the Georgia State College of Agriculture, of teacher train- 

 ing at the various schools, special features of the year, and recommendations, 

 war work, and physical training; an outline of the course of study in opera- 

 tion ; an outline of the revised course adopted for 1918-19 to meet the provi- 

 sions of the Smith-Hughes Act, with a schedule of hours and explanatory 

 notes ; the text of the legislative act creating the schools ; and statistics of 

 attendance, equipment, receipts, and disbursements, etc. 



It is shown that for individual schools, the total attendance ranged from 72 

 to 211 stULlents, the total number of acres cultivated from 75 to 257, the value 

 of live stock from .$1,G95 to $G,GOO, the value of larm stock from $500 to $4,000, 

 the State appropriation from $14,000 to $17,000, tlie total receipts from $14,490 

 to $25,812, and the total disbursements tVom $13,847 to $2G,301. 



The Gary public schools: Household arts, E. W. White {New York: Gen. 

 Ed. Bd., 1918, pp. XIX +49, pis. 7, Jigs. 2). — This is a report on the instruction in 

 cooking and sewing in the Gary (lud.) public schools, including time schedules 

 and enrollment, the cafeteria, equipment, staff and instruction, tests, and a 

 discussion of the merits and defects of the instruction. 



In concluding, the author states that this account may mislead because it 

 fails to give a proper realization of the attitude and spirit of the Gary pupils. 

 Tliese pupils are happy, and in the author's judgment " the happiness and spon- 

 taneity of the children are due to a variety of causes — to the flexibility of the 

 schedule, to the development of special activities, to the absence of repressive 

 rules, to the general feeling that the school exists for the child, not the child 

 for the school." 



Domestic science in rural school (Agr. Gas. Canada, 6 (1919), No. 1, pp. 51- 

 60, figs. 3). — This is a series of brief accounts, by education officials, of the 

 present status of instruction in domestic science in the rural schools of the 

 Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, 

 and British Columbia. These indicate that domestic science is a comparatively 

 new subject in the rural schools of these Provinces, in three of which it is aided 

 by government grants. In four of the Provinces the hot school lunch has been 

 introduced into the rural schools. 



Report Wellesley College training camp and experiment station for the 

 Woman's Land Army of America, E. Diehl ([Wellesley, Mass.: Wellesley 

 Col.], 1919, 2. ed., pp. 95, figs. 10). — This is a report, by the camp director, on 

 the organization and activities of the training camp and experiment station 

 which was opened August 1, 1918, with 32 women. Outlines of courses for 



