794 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Agricultural training- in the high schools of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nehr.: 

 Dept. Puh. Instr., 1913, pp. 15, fig. 1). — This pamphlet contains a copy of the 

 1913 law providing state aid for agricultural instruction in Nebraska high 

 schools, followed by rules and regulations, and the outlines of 2-year and 4-year 

 courses of study for state-aided rural consolidated, county, and city high schools 

 and of a suggested line of agricultural work for rural schools that may become 

 associated with such approved high schools. 



Industrial schools {Ann. Rpt. Reforms and Prog. Chosen {Korea), 1911-12, 

 pp. 207, 208, 239, 249-255). — Under the new educational system in Korea, which 

 went into effect in August, 1911, the higher industrial schools may be classified 

 as agricultural, commercial, and technical. At the end of the fiscal year 1911 

 the industrial schools numbered 19, including 1 agricultural and dendrological 

 school and 15 agricultural schools. There were also 17 elementary industrial 

 schools, of which 13 gave agricultural training and 2 agricultural and com- 

 mercial training. In the common schools 2 hours a week are devoted to nature 

 study in the third and fourth years. Instruction in elementary agriculture 

 is not compulsory and the time allotted to it may be fixed by the teacher after 

 obtaining the approval of the governor of the province. In the normal course 

 in a higher common school 3 hours a week are devoted to materials for teaching 

 nature study, and in an agricultural school, which offers a o-year course, gen- 

 erally 10 hours a week the first year and 18 the second are devoted to agricul- 

 tural subjects out of a total of 30 hours a week. 



School manual training practically applied, W. C. Dennis {farmer, 32 

 {191J/), No. 6, pp. 112, 188, figs. 3). — An account is given of the construction of 

 a model poultry house by the manual training students of the Litchfield, Minn., 

 high school. 



Boys' and g-irls' agricultural clubs in Michigan {Mich. Farmer, 1^2 {1914), 

 No. 5, pp. 105, 106, fig. 1). — A summary is given of a plan for the organization 

 of boys' and girls' clubs throughout the State of Michigan. This is followed by 

 a description of the work done by the Wexford Boys' and Girls' Agricultural 

 Club, which has been in existence for several years. 



Agricultural clubs in the high schools of Utah, A. C. Carrington ( Univ. 

 Gal. Jour. Agr., 1 {1913), No. 5, p. 2^).— Within the last yenr the ngricultural 

 club of the Utah College has organized 14 agricultural clubs in the high schools 

 of the State. Arrangements have been made whereby college extension workers 

 and prominent men in the State deliver one lecture a month on an agricultural 

 subject at each club. The work of the clubs this year includes stock and grain 

 judging contests, and some of the clubs have held debates with one another. 

 One club received sample seeds from seed houses in the State, constructed hot- 

 beds and frames, and carried on experiments with seeds and plants in the class- 

 rooms. The matured plants were sold, the receipts totaling $40. Club libraries 

 are also being encouraged. 



Wheat competitions in Western Australian schools {Queensland Agr. Jour., 

 n. ser., 1 {1914), No. 1, pp. 16-20, figs. 2). — A competition in wheat growing is 

 described in which 3 prizes were awarded for the production of the most grains 

 from an original single grain. The education department supplies tools, fencing, 

 and seeds of flowers, vegetables, and economic plants for gardening lessons in the 

 state schools. Many of these materials are provided by the agricultural depart- 

 ment while trees and shrubs nre obtained through the forestry department. 



Elementary agriculture, G. S. Raymond {Hawaii Ed. Rev., 2 {1914), No. 1, 

 pp. 12, 13, 10). — This is a suggested outline, prepared by the territorial inspector 

 of schools, of a course in elementary agriculture for the fifth to the eighth 

 grades, inclusive. 



