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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATIOIT. 



Report of the temporary educational commission to the government and 

 legislature of the State of North Dakota {[Fargo, N. Dak.], 1912, pp. 61).— 

 This commission, organized in December, 1911, for the purpose of studying 

 educational systems in the United States and elsewhere with a view to unifying 

 and systematizing the educational system of North Dakota, outlines in this 

 report the North Dakota educational system, what a state educational system 

 should be, the bases of institutional organization, the scope of institutions, and 

 the views of authorities concerning the function, control, and government of a 

 state university. 



Report of committee on agricultural education, T. E. Finegan {N. Y. 

 Dept. Agr. Bui. hi, pp. 1253-1256, pi. 1). — This committee of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society presents for the consideration of the society the report of 

 the state advisoi-y board, established in 1911 for the purpose of promoting and 

 directing agricultural education and the advancement of country life. This 

 report recommends "(1) that the main effort toward the introduction of agri- 

 cultural education, whether through state or local aid, be directed toward the 

 study of agricultural and rural subjects in the public high schools; (2) that 

 in addition to those institutions already authorized to train teachers of agri- 

 culture, special and adequate provision be made for training such teachers at 

 the State Normal College and in one or more normal schools; (3) that the 

 state department of education give direction at a few points, distributed with 

 reference to the leading agricultural industries, to the development of adequate 

 teaching equipments in high schools which may serve as examples and illustra- 

 tions for further extension of such equipment; (4) that the special state 

 schools already established be developed toward teaching home economics and 

 agricultural technology, i the latter somewhat specialized for each school; (5) 

 that the further development of the special state schools, when this may safely 

 and wisely be accomplished, shall be made with reference chiefly to the fruit 

 and vegetable growing interests, under which policy the southeastern and west- 

 ern parts of the State would be considered by the establishment of one school 

 in each of those sections ; and thereafter special schools of agriculture shall be 

 established only if the people of a locality determine whether they desire a 

 school and will take a substantial part in its financial support; (6) that this 

 board favors legislation enabling cities of the first and second class to establish 

 public schools of agriculture either within or without the limits of said cities; 

 (7) that in schools of agriculture hereafter established, the commissioner of 

 education, the commissioner of agriculture, and the director of the State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture at Cornell University, shall be ex ofiicio members of the 

 boards of trustees." 



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

 J. S. Stewart {Bui. Ga. State Col. Agr., 1 {1913), No. 12, pp. 38, figs. 11).— 

 Among the new features of work is the plan to give the girls some training in 

 general agriculture as well as in care of poultry, milk, and vegetable and flower 

 gardens, and the making of butter. The teacliers' training course was taken by 

 53 students during the past year. It proved popular in 3 schools, and it is 

 believed will soon become a valuable means of teacher training for rural 

 schools. The complete course of study, which appears in the report, has again 

 been revised. 



Scientific farming on elaborate scale in the common schools, S. A. Mineab 

 {Rural Educator, 2 {1913), No. 2, p. 24, fig. i).— According to this article there 

 are over 4.000 schools in the State of Oklahoma teaching agriculture. About 

 3,500 are rural schools, all of which use agricultural text-books. Indoor experi- 



