92 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Bibliography of the price of cereals, J. A. 1'. Mackenzie unci J. A. Baines 

 (Jour. Roil. Statift. ,SVx'., 77 (IVOS), .Vo. /. ///*. 17 S-20(J).— Thin bibliosraphy was 

 presented by the Royal Statistical Society of Loudon to the International 

 Statistical Institute at llie ccinLTess licid at Co]ienhasen in Au.tcnst. 1!)07. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Course in agriculture, S. !>. M( Cready {Atui. h'/it. Ontario Affr. and Exjjt. 

 I'nloii, 2D (1907), int. Do-lO-'i). — This is an ontlino of a two-year course in 

 agricnlture suitable for bi;^h schools and collegiate institutes. It includes sug- 

 gestions for instruction in agriculture, physics, chemisti-y, botany, horticulture, 

 agronomy, animal husbandry, dairy husbandry, poultry keeping, farm carpen- 

 try, and farm economics, items of equipment needed and their cost, and i-egu- 

 latious to govern agricultural departments in high schools and collegiate 

 institutes. 



State facilities for viticultural instruction in Hungary, J. Wortmann 

 (Lainlir. Jahrl).. 36 (1907), -To. 5-6, piJ. 7S8-792). — An account of the work of 

 the 27 viticultural inspectors in Hungary, the 8 secondary and elementary 

 viticultural schools, the 4 commimal viticultural schools, the Royal School for 

 Cellar ;\Ia.sters at Budafok, near Budapest, and the Royal Central Viticultural 

 Institute at Budapest. 



French traveling agricultural domestic science schools, A. Ducloux (Indus. 

 Lait. [Paris], 33 (1908). Xo. 11. iJii. 23o-2.jo). — This article gives a bi'ief history 

 of itinerant instruction in agricultui'al domestic science in France, and an 

 account of the organization, work of the staff, daily schedule, budget, and quali- 

 fications of students of these schools, results obtained in the departments of 

 Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Nord, and suggestions as to qualifications and prepara- 

 tion of teaching staff necessary to insure the success of this movement, together 

 with the three months' course of study. 



The teaching of agriculture, C. C. James (Ann. Rpt. Ontario Agr. and Expt. 

 Union. 29 (1907), pp. 75-9-'i). — The author calls attention to the failure of pre- 

 vious attempts at teaching agriculture in the public schools of Ontario in spite 

 of the fact that three good text-books of agriculture have been prepared espe- 

 cially for these schools. He attributes this failure to the lack of rural school 

 teachers having the training that would make them competent to handle the 

 subject even when provided with text-books. He then outlines a new plan, 

 which has recently been put into operation, viz, to start with 6 agricultural 

 college graduates as teachers of agriculture in G of the high schools of the 

 province. Reports are given from each of these teachers showing their work 

 not only in the school but also among the farmers in their districts. These 

 reports are followed by a" memorandum by the author which was presented to 

 the minister of agriculture in 1906 and which outlines their duties in consider- 

 able detail. These young men are not only teachers but local representatives of 

 the department of agriculture, occupying positions very similar to those of 

 deiiartmental professors of agriculture in France. 



Agriculture in public schools, A. D. DeWitt {Cornell Countryman, 5 (1908), 

 Xo. 6, pp. 187-189). — This is a description of the 3-year course in agricultiu-e 

 given in the public high school at St. Louis, Mich. 



Public school cookery, is it playing fair with the home and taxpayer? 

 Mary B. Hartt (Good Housekeepini/, .',6 (1908), Xo. 2, pp. 123-130, figs. 6).— 

 A discussion of instruction in cooking in the public schools as to whether 

 it should be in the nature of practical cookery or to give a knowledge of the 

 scientific basis of cooking, and whether or not the principles of cookery should 

 be taught iu the grades leaving the science for the high school. A comparison 



