1919] AGRICULTURAL, EDUCATION. 895 



Attention is called to the great lack of well-trained teachers, advisers, and 

 experts in dairying. The association criticizes the concentration of dairy 

 education in the past on cheese and butter making, and points out that more 

 attention should be paid to the production and management of milk for direct 

 human consumption. It holds that horticulture can not be regarded as simply 

 a branch of agriculture, and that the problem of the provision of horticultural 

 education must hereafter be regarded as largely separate from that of the pro- 

 vision of agricultural education. It is found that more prominence should be 

 given to poultry education in the curricula of colleges and farm institutes, and 

 that the county work should be closely coordinated with it. A course of at 

 least two years' duration preparing candidates for a national diploma in 

 poultry keeping, or a poultry manager's certificate should be provided by the 

 college, while the farm institute should provide shorter courses qualifying for 

 a poultry worker's certificate. Special provision for research and experimental 

 work in the subject is urgently needed. 



The reconstruction of agricultural education (Jour. Bd. Agr. [London], 26 

 {1919), No. 3, pp. 300-304). — Extracts are given from the summary of recom- 

 mendations in the memorandum noted above. 



Allotments under the Agricultural Instruction Act (Agr. Oas. Canada, 6 

 (1919), No. 10, pp. 865-869). — A brief summary is given of the purpose for which 

 the grants for 1919-20, made under the Canadian Agricultural Instruction Act, 

 are to be expended, together with statements of the appropriation to each 

 Province. The total allotment of $1,100,000 includes $291,701.16 for agricul- 

 tural colleges and schools, $597,712.68 for instruction and demonstration, 

 $31,510 for women's work, $154,076.16 for elementary agricultural education, 

 and $25,000 for veterinary colleges. 



Government assistance to fairs and exhibitions (Agr. Gaz. Canada, 6 (1919), 

 No. 9, pp. 816-821). — This is a series of articles dealing with government grants 

 to fairs and exhibitions and the purposes for which they are expended in the 

 Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Sas- 

 katchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. 



Vocational education [in New Brunswick], F. Peacock (Agr. Oaz. Canada, 

 6 (1919), No. S, pp. 752, 753). — Steps taken under the vocational education act 

 passed by the New Brunswick legislature in 1918 (E. S. R., 41, p. 195) are 

 described. The policy of the board was to open only a few type vocational 

 schools and departments during the first year, including a full-time county 

 vocational school at Woodstock operating departments of agriculture, home- 

 making, commercial work, and motor mechanics. 



[Extension teaching in farm management] (.Jour. Farm Econ., 1 (1919), 

 No. 2, pp. 4'i-73). — The following papers read at the American Farm Manage- 

 ment Association meeting in January, 1919, are included ; Farm Management 

 Demonstrations in New York State, 1919: A Demonstration for the Sixth 

 Year; Income Tax and Farm Management; Demonstration Work on Cost of 

 Production Records in Nebraska ; Assistance Given in Summarizing Farm 

 Records in Indiana ; Farm Management Extension Work ; Getting Farm Man- 

 agement to the Farmer ; Teaching Farm Management Through Farm Account- 

 ing ; Farm Management Demonstrations — Past, Present, and Future ; Con- 

 structive Criticism of Extension and Demonstration Work in Farm Manage- 

 ment ; and Relationships Between Extension and Investigation Work in Farm 

 Management. In these papers special attention is given to methods of teach- 

 ing farm management, particularly in relation to the business of the farm and 

 the farmer. Many historical facts concerning the development of farm man- 

 agement demonstrations, as well as suggestions with reference to the im- 

 provement of the present program, are included. 



