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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Progress in agricultural education, 1907, I>. J. Ckosby (U. .S. Drpt. Agr.. 

 (iffii-i ll.iiit. Sins, liiil. mm. iti>. .i.ll-.i(n;, /ii/s. IS). — a review is given of the 

 work of the diflert'iit educational afieiicies for the promotion of tigricultnre in 

 this ••ountry and ai)road, with special attention to the fiftieth anniversary of 



I lie estaJ)lishnient of tlie first afjricultnral college in this country, the training 

 (if teachers in agricnltnral colleges anrl normal schools, and descriptions of the 

 agricultural features (if instruction in a number of liigh schools. 



Statistics of land-grant colleg-es and agricultural experiment stations, 1907, 

 Makii: T. Si'KTiiMA.w ( r. N. /»(/*/. .1//;-.. O/Jicr IJ-r/tt. Stns. liiit. lUdl. i>i). I'.)!>- 

 2^()). — A compilation from otHcial sources of general statistics, courses of study, 

 attendance, value of funds and i'(inipment. revenues, and additions to equipment 

 of the land-grant colleges, and of the lines of work, n-vennes, and additions to 

 ei|uipment of the agricultural experiment stations in the Unitt^l States. 



Statistics of educational institutions, 1904-5 (Osterr. Statis., 7.9 (1908), 

 \(>. .i, pp. LA7y/+.i.'/S).— Statistics for 1904-5 similar to those for 1003-4 pre- 

 viously noted (E. S. R., IS, p. 995). 



A successful agricultural high school (Pacific RumJ Press. 71! (I DOS). 

 \ii. I.t. PI). I'.K], 20 'i, .iOr>, /ii/s. ()). — A description of the organization, equipment, 

 and (nurses of study of the (\ilifornia Polytechnic School r.t San Luis ()l)ispo. 



Crookston School of Agriculture, W. Robertson (Minn. Farm Rev.. /'/ 

 ( I'.IOS), .Vo. .9, pp. IG'i, 16.'). pf). 1). — A description of the l)uil(lings and work of 

 this institution. 



For the promotion of the culture and uses of fruit (Bcr, Landw. Rcichsamtc 

 IniKin \(!cnn(inif]. No. G, pp. r/ + /77). — This is a report of the German Pomo- 

 logical Society on courses of instruction for fruit experts, oue of which was held 

 in Dresden on September 10 and 11, 1900, and the other in Liilieck, July 29-ol, 

 V.MlT. .•iiid on courses for fruit packing. 



School gardening in the province of La Union, X. II. Forkman (Philippine 

 Agr. Rtr. [English al.], I i I'.IOS). .Vo. 2, /)/). 95-99, pi. i).— This extract from 

 the report of the author, who is supervising teacher at Lubao-Aringay, gives a 

 brief account of the school garden work in the province of La I'nion. Every 

 8chool has a garden in which instruction Is given in the use of fertilizers, culti- 

 \ation of plants, use of products, and the saving of seeds. The success of the 

 work is attributed largely to the fact th.-it each luipil was given his own indi- 

 vidii.-il plat, thus giving him definite ownership and a right to use or sell the 

 pHKlucts of his garden. 



Boys' com growing contest, S. .M. .Tokoan (Mo. lid. ,[gr. Mo. liiil.. (1 

 ' I'-iiiS), So. .'/, pp. 9, figs. 6').— Announcement of prizes offered, rules governing 

 the contest, and of boys' and young men's short courses, and dire<'tions for 

 planting, cultivation, ef<'. 



With a prosperity train in Georgia, S. M. Ram. ( World's Wdrl,-. ir, 

 il9(is). \o. S, pp. 1 ',',.',- 1 0'l.l.i, figs. ,S)._This is an account of the six-weeks 

 run ill the winter of l!K),s, of a special train manned l>y the (Jeorgia College of 

 Agriculture. 



The farmers' institutes in the United States. 1907, .1. Hamilton (U. S. 

 hept. Agr., Office llapt. Shis. Rpt. 1901, pp. .W7-.f.5 J).— This is the aiuHi.il report 

 of the Farmers' Institute Specialist of this Offlce for IIMJT. It Includes a dis- 

 cussion of tlu' progress and proldems of the institute movement, an account of 

 the annual meeting of the American A.ssociation of Farmers' Institute Workers, 



II dis<Misslon of the agricultural education extension movement, and detailed 

 reiM)rt8 and statistics on farmers' instituti's in the difTcrent States and Terri- 

 tories. 



