692 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The forest school — a growing institution (Caiiad. Forestry Jour., 6 (1910), 

 No. 3, PI). 75-77, flgs. 3). — Notes on the instruction in forestry at educational 

 institutions in Canada and the United States. 



Course of study for departments of ag'riculture and home economics in 

 Louisiana high schools, V. L. Roy {Baton Rouge: State Supt. Ed., 1910, 

 pp^ Q2). — The supervisor of agricultural high schools in Louisiana here out- 

 lines the minimum requirements adopted by the state board of education for 

 high schools receiving state aid for departments of agriculture. These require- 

 ments include land inclosed by fence, a bam, apparatus for teaching the sciences 

 including agriculture, $180 worth of tools and farm implements, an appro- 

 priation for the maintenance of the department of at least $250 annually, 

 and a teacher of agriculture who must be a graduate of an agricultural col- 

 lege with some practical experience in farming, can not be the principal of 

 the school, must be employed for 12 months in the year, and can not be re- 

 quired to teach any class outside of the department of agriculture with the 

 exception of botany and zoology if these subjects are given an agricultural 

 turn. The special state appropriations to approved departments of agriculture 

 will range from $1,200 to $1,500 for each school. 



Courses of study are suggested for high schools having only departments 

 of agriculture and home economics and for high schools which also offer 

 literary or commercial courses. Following these are syllabi of courses in 

 general agriculture, farm animals, farm bookkeeping, chemistry, dairying, 

 mechanical drawing, agricultural engineering, entomology, farm crops, field 

 practice, horticulture, rural law, farm mnnagement, poultry, shop practice, 

 soils and fertilizers, sewing, cooking, food study, physiology, home nursing, 

 dietetics, and household management, with suggestions for classroom reci- 

 tations, laboratory practicums, and field, shop, and home work. Directions 

 for teachers are given in considerable detail and these are followed by price 

 lists of apparatus for the various laboratories, lists of shop and garden tools 

 and field implements and of miscellaneous equipment, and a suggestive list of 

 publications for the library. Specifications are given for barns to be erected 

 on the high-school farms. 



Annual for Edgar County public schools, 1910-11, G. W. Brown {Ann. 

 Edgar Co. [IZZ.] Puh. Schools, 1910-11, pp. 123, pi. 1, figs. .'fO, dgms. 2).— In 

 addition to the usual public school reports data are included concerning the 

 farm boys' encampment, the farmers' and teachers' excursion, an outline of the 

 minimum of instruction in agriculture for the year, a list of county fair 

 premiums for school exhibits, directions for making the Babcoek milk test, 

 and other data intended to aid the teacher in conducting an up-to-date school 

 relating its work to the rural community life. 



Annual report of Winnebago County schools, 1910, O. J. Kern {Ann. Rpt. 

 Winnehago Co. [Ill] Schools, 1910, pp. 96, figs. 105, dgms. 8).— This report 

 contains, in addition to the usual information concerning the schools of the 

 county, chapters on outdoor improvement including education for country 

 life, indoor improvement with reference to health conditions, schoolroom deco- 

 ration, school libraries, etc., play and playgi-ounds, agricultural education, the 

 new country home, and consolidation of country schools. This last chapter 

 contains several building plans, two landscape plans, and one planting list. 



A state fair school of domestic science, Mrs. H. M. Jones {Minn. Hort., 3S 

 (1910), No. 7, pp. 2J{l-2ii8, pi. 1, figs. 2).— The state fair school of domestic 

 science, at Springfield, 111., for which the stnte legislature provided a $20,000 

 building, is described. Details are given concerning the daily routine of the 

 women and girls who receive instruction in this school. 



