298 EXPEEIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The agricultural course for women, Georgia E, Cantrell (Ann. Rpt. Mis- 

 souri Bd. Agr., Jf5 {1912), pp. 584-587) .^-This article presents a brief summary 

 of the agricultural course for women in the University of Missouri, with com- 

 ments as to the expediency of such a course and the benefits to be derived. 



The teaching of entomolog-y in our agricultural colleges, W. Loch head (Ann. 

 Rpt. Ent. Soc. Ontario, 43 (1912), pp. 38-40).— Instead of taking up the chief 

 injurious insects by orders and keeping the relationships of the forms discussed 

 constantly before the minds of the students, the author prefers to deal with 

 them on a basis of their hosts during the first two years or diploma course in 

 Canadian agricultural colleges. In the third year, in which students are pre- 

 paring themselves to become investigators, teachers, etc., he advocates giving 

 more attention to entomology as a science, this involving some familiarity with 

 the families and chief genera. This he believes can be best acquired by practical 

 work in the laboratory, devoting the fall term to a more detailed study of the 

 anatomy of some typical insects and to a study of the chief families and 

 common genera, and the winter term to a more detailed study of the economic 

 forms. In the entomological instruction of the fourth year, taken by students 

 who are specializing, special problems are assigned for study and discussion, 

 and methods of work and a knowledge of the literature are emphasized. A 

 plan of contents is suggested for a handbook on entomology. 



Fit the rural school to the community, Ellen B. McDonald (Business 

 America, 14 (1913), No. 2, pp. 164-170, figs. 5).— The author discusses the 

 possibilities in the course of study, agriculture in rural schools, agricultural 

 contests, and neighborhood interest. 



The betterment of rural schools through agriculture: The Ohio plan, 

 F. W. Miller (Addresses and Proc. Nat. Ed. Assoc., 50 (1912), pp. 1366-1373).— 

 This paper briefly summarizes the circumstances leading to the passage by the 

 Ohio legislature in 1911 of the act making the teaching of agriculture manda- 

 tory in the high and elementary schools of the rural districts and villages of 

 the State. There is also a brief discussion of the manner in which the work 

 has been carried on and its effect on the viewpoint of the average country boy 

 or girl as to farm life. 



Industrial education in Columbus, Ga., R. B. Daniel (U. 8. Bur. Ed. Bui., 

 1913, No. 25, pp. 30, pis. 6). — This bulletin presents a study of the adaptation 

 of the work of the public schools to the conditions and needs of children as 

 being worked out in two schools in Columbus, Ga. Among the special features 

 are the introduction of courses in normal training, home economics, and me- 

 chanic arts, industrial work for negroes, a school for children of mill operatives, 

 and an industrial high school. 



Household ethics and industrial training in the colored schools of Ken- 

 tucky, C. L. TiMBERLAKE (Ky. Dcpt. Ed. [J5wZ.], 6 (1913), No. 8, pp. 58, pis. 

 7). — The author discusses the need of instruction in household ethics and indus- 

 trial training for colored youth, the duties of parents, and lessons in home 

 making, and gives data for use in teaching home economics and agriculture in 

 schools of different grades. 



Domestic economy — the family budget, G. Fletcher (Dept. Agr. and Tech. 

 Instr. Ireland Jour., 13 (1913), No. 4, pp. 735-739).— In this paper, read before 

 the twelfth annual congress of the Irish Technical Instruction Association, 

 Bangor, the author discusses the present status of home economics instruction 

 in Ireland. 



Of 112 girls' secondary schools 65 offer instruction in home economics to 

 a total of 1,640 students, and the subject is also taught in every technical 

 school. Outside of large centers there are over 70 itinerant teachers who give 



