194 EXPEKIMENT STATION KECOKD. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural and forestry instruction in Italy, A. Kastner (Land u. ForsHo. 

 Unterrichts Ztg., 27 {1913), No. 1-2, pp. 108-128) .—An account is given of the 

 present status of agricultural and forestry instruction in Italy administered by 

 (1) agricultural high schools at Milan, Perugia and Portici ; (2) royal technical 

 agricultural schools, including the viticultural schools at Alba, Avellino, Ca- 

 gliari, Catania, and Conegliano ; (3) royal agricultural special schools, viz, the 

 Royal Pomological and Horticultural School at Florence, and the Royal Veterinary 

 and Dairy School at Reggio-Emilio ; (4) royal practical agricultural schools of 

 which there are 28; (5) 3 private agricultural institutions including the Agri- 

 cultural Colonial Institute at Florence, and 2 practical schools; (6) agricultural 

 and housekeeping schools for girls; (7) agricultural experimental institutions; 

 (8) itinerant agricultural instruction; (9) traveling agricultural libraries; and 

 (10) the Royal School of Forestry at Yallombrosa, and the Royal School for 

 the Training of Forest Guards at Cittaducale. 



[Agricultural and forestry instruction in Austria and Italy] {Land u. 

 Forstw. Unterrichts Ztg., 21 {1913), No. 1-2, pp. V+168+LXIX).— In addition 

 to several articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue, this report includes (1) 

 statistics of agricultural education institutions in Austria in 1912-13, showing 

 an addition during the year of 1 agricultural intermediate school, 5 agricultural 

 winter schools, 2 housekeeping schools, an agricultural winter and vegetable 

 culture school, and a school for fruit growing, and the discontinuance of a farm 

 and hop culture school. 2 agricultural winter schools, a housekeeping school, 

 and a brewing school; (2) a review of agricultural literature, and (3) a list 

 of the agricultural and forestry education institutions in Austria with their 

 faculties. 



The celebration of the anniversary of the Imperial Royal High School of 

 Agriculture of Vienna (Land u. Forstw. Unterrichts Ztg., 27 {1913), No. 1-2, 

 pp. 1-11). — This is an account of the celebration on May 8 and 9, 1913, of the 

 one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the institute for forestry 

 instruction, known later as the forest academy at Mariabrunn, which in 1875 

 was transferred to the High School of Agriculture of Vienna as the first insti- 

 tute for higher instruction in forestry ; also of the fortieth anniversary of the 

 establishment of the High School of Agriculture of Vienna, concerning which 

 a description of its most important periods of development is given. 



Report of the department of agriculture of Norway, 1912 {Aarsher. 

 Otfentl. Foranst. Landhr. Fremme, 1912, III, Statsforanst, pp. LXXXV+35+ 

 594)' — This report gives a comprehensive survey of the work of the various 

 government agencies established for the advancement of Norwegian agriculture 

 and its various branches. The annual reports of the state agricultural experi- 

 ment stations, seed control stations, milk control stations, and cow-testing asso- 

 ciations are included. 



World's dairy schools, trans, by J. H. Monrad {N. Y. Produce Rev. and 

 Amer. Cream., 36 {1913), Nos. 6, pp. 258, 259; 7, pp. 302, 304; 8, p. 348; 10, 

 p. 430; 11, p. 4'^2). — This condensation of a lecture delivered by Dairy Coun- 

 selor G. Ellbrecht at the Dalum Dairy School in Denmark gives an account of 

 the facilities for dairy instruction in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Prussia, Hol- 

 land, Belgium, and Switzerland. 



Practical School of Aviculture {Rev. Vet. e Zootech., 3 {1913), No. 4, pp. 

 257-261). — The objects and methods of instruction of the Practical School of 

 Aviculture of Ascurra in the Federal District of Rio de Janiero are set forth. 

 The school has an extensive area of land with equipment for an essentially 

 practical instruction. Its object is to train students to direct poultry farms or 

 enterprises, and to become poultry specialists. The students assist in the work 



