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instruction at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, New South 

 Wales. He states that the total number of students who have passed through 

 the college since its inception, and who have pursued a course of training in 

 farming and live stock, is 2,037. At least 78 per cent of these are putting their 

 training into practice on the laud or occupying responsible positions associated 

 with rural pursuits. A total of 621 rural teachers have taken the summer 

 course in nature study, elementary agriculture, school gardening, etc., and 2,180 

 pupils and 180 teachers have attended the rural camp schools, held under the 

 direction of the department of public instruction witli tlie object, especially, 

 of interesting children in country occupations. In the 12 years since its estab- 

 lishment in 1905, the farmers' winter school has been attended by a total of 

 1,055 practical farmers. 



Itinerant instruction, B. Carqueja (Bol. Sec. Estado Agr. [Portugall, 1 

 {1918), No. 2-4. PP- 95-101). — A brief account is given of the development of 

 movable schools of agriculture in Portugal since the organization of the first 

 school of this kind in 1901. 



The present status of itinerant instruction in Algarve, M. Pais da Cunha 

 Fortes {Bol. Sec. Estado Agr. [Portugal], 1 {1918), No. 1, pp. 5-21).— This is 

 an account of the present status and some results of the work of the movable 

 schools of agriculture in the province of Algarve, Portugal, with brief notes on 

 such schools in other countries. 



Movable schools of agriculture organized by the Journal of Commerce of 

 Porto {Bol. Sec. Estado Agr. [Portugal], 1 {1918), No. 2-4, pp. 102-111).— The 

 aims, organization, and course of instruction by months, of movable schools 

 of agriculture in Portugal are outlined. 



Training of discharged soldiers and sailors {Scot. Jour. Agr., 1 {1918), No. 

 3, pp. 3Jf6-3Jf9). — Brief outlines are given of various schemes, prepared and put 

 into operation by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland in conjunction with the 

 Ministry of Pensions, for the training of discharged soldiers and sailors in 

 forestry, gardening, and agriculture. 



Training in farm and garden work in reformatory and industrial schools, 

 .T. O. Peet {London: Bd. Ed. [Gt. B7it.'\, 1919, pp. 16). — This report gives some 

 account of the systems of land management and the methods of training boys 

 in agriculture and horticulture practiced at the 12 reformatory and industrial 

 farm schools in Great Britain visited by the Chief Inspector of Reformatory 

 and Industrial Schools of the Board of Education, and presents some general 

 conclusions with regard to the needs and development of the work of the schools. 

 Attention is called especially to the impoi'tance of regarding institutions pos- 

 sessing farms as places of training for future land workers, rather than as 

 places of detention to be made as far as possible self-supporting; the need of 

 more and better qualified instructors and of improved equipment, closer co- 

 ordination between the school work and the practical work and the develop- 

 ment of theoretical instruction concurrently with the instruction in the field 

 or the garden, the preparation of properly graded schemes of training in agri- 

 culture and horticulture, differentiation in the training of the future market 

 gardener and of the farm workers, provision of more advanced courses for 

 reformatory schools than for industrial schools, and possibly courses of an en- 

 tirely different type ; the desirability of providing classes in gardening for all 

 boys in the institution, and of introducing skilled instruction in bee and poul- 

 try keeping and more varied courses in handwork; and a cojisiderable modifica- 

 tion or the total abandonment of the practice of hiring out boys to farmers in 

 the vicinity for day work. 



Agriculture at the primary school, L. Rougier, C. Perret, and A. IMiaili.e 

 {U Agriculture a VEcole Primaire. Paris: J. B, BailUcrc d Sons, 191J/, 3. ed., 



