191!>] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATIOISr. 895 



Vocational education: Plan of the State Board for Vocational Education 

 (Bui. State Bd. Ed. [ya.], 1 (1918), No. 1, Sup. 2, pp. 29).— Under approved 

 plans, 18 or 20 high schools are operating departments of vocational education 

 in agriculture and home eeouomics. The State Board of Education, which lias 

 l)eon designated as the State Board for Vocational Education, ha.s apportioned 

 45 per cent of the teacher-training fund for 1918-19 for the training of teachers, 

 supervisors, or directors of agriculture and 30 per cent for the training of teach- 

 ers of home economics. 



The 4-year course iu vocational agriculture, including suggestions for project 

 work, is outlined. The first year is devoted to plant production, the second to 

 animal production, the third to general horticulture and field crops, and the 

 fourth to rural engineering and farm mechanics in the first term and rural 

 economics and farm management in the second term. Outlines are also given of 

 a suggestive millinery course, a 2-year course in home economics proposed for 

 cities with a population of over 25,000, and a 4-year course for cities, towns, and 

 comnuniities of less than 25,0(X) inhabitants. 



Courses of study in vocational agriculture and vocational home economics, 

 J. D. i:Lr,iFF (Mis.'^ouri State Bd. Ed., Vocat. Ed. Bui. 3 (1918-10), pp. .',5).~ 

 This bulletin contains outlines of the first-year course in vocational agriculture; 

 a suggested curriculum in vocational home economics showing the distribution 

 of time by years, terms, and weeks ; courses in drawing and design ; garment 

 making, including textile work ; food study and home cooking ; housekeeping, 

 planning and serving meals, household accounts, and household management ; 

 physiology, hygiene, an.d home nursing ; elementary dressmaking and millinery ; 

 references to helpful literature on agriculture and home economics; laboratory 

 exercise in agriculture ; a suggested list of agricultural home projects ; and sug- 

 gested projects in home economics. 



The Missouri plan for vocational instruction in agriculture for 1918-19 pi"o- 

 vides for two years' continuous instruction. The fii'st year of the agricultural 

 course requires one-half of the student's time and deals with soils, soil fertility, 

 farm crops, farm animals, farm management, and farm mechanics. The second 

 year's work will consist of two of the intensive courses in soils, horticulture, farm 

 crops, and animal husbandry. 



Brief description of a plan for unit and short courses in vocational agri- 

 culture: Unit plan for high schools, T. H. Eaton (State Bd. Ed. Conn. Bui. 

 ,37 (1918-19), pp. 7). — A plan is described opening up to high schools and to 

 students opportunities for one and two or four years of work, and to the com- 

 nuuiity the possibilities of short-course instruction for pupils not in the high 

 school or in any school at all, and for adults. 



Making lessons in agriculture count, J. F. Shambaugh (Bui. Teaching Agr. 

 [Off. Supt. Pub. Instr., N. C], No. 1 (1917), pp. i6').— These lessons suggest 

 methods of teaching agriculture and are based on the text. Agriculture for Be- 

 ginners (E. S. R., 16, p. 832), adopted for the North Carolina public schools. 



Vocational agricultural education by home projects, R. W. Stimson (New 

 York: The MacmiUan Co., 1919, pp. XXXU///+[2]+46S, flgn. 30/,).— This is a 

 detailed review of the Massachusetts home-project plan, v/hich meets the 

 minimum requirements of the Smith-Hughes Act of at least six months a year 

 of supervised practice in agriculture. It includes a brief reference to the 

 various forms of organization of secondary vocational agricultural education; 

 discussions of the home project school or department v. the self-contained school ; 

 project study v. subject study ; vegetable growing project study outlines in 

 Massachusetts; suggestions to supervisors, superintendents, and directors, 

 supported by experience in Massachusetts, regarding certain principles of pro- 



