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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Instniction in agriculture and foi-estry {Ann. Sri. Agroti., 3. ser., 3 (1908). 

 I. /i/i. .il-l.i). — Abstracts are fiiven of tlie following addresses presented at the 

 Eighth International Congress of Agriculture in Vienna in 1907 : The More Prac- 

 tical Organization of Higher Agricultural Instruction, by H. Thiel ; reports con- 

 cerning Tlie Supi)l.v and Demand of Specialists in the Promotion of Agriculture 

 ;ind Forestry, by V. Egger-Mcilhvald and P.oettger ; Is tliere Legal Authority for 

 Demanding a Certificate of Proficiency from Directors of xVgricultural and 

 Forestry Enterprises, by II. de Ilaerdtl. K. von (iuttenberg. and von Jarosclika ; 

 Exi)eriniental Work in Secondary Scliools as a Method and Sul)ject of Instruc- 

 tion, by F. Sehindler; The Development of Agricultural and Forestry Instruc- 

 tion in Primary and Secondary Schools, by Rudolf Jugoviz ; Instruction in 

 Agriculture and Domestic Science, by P. de Vuyst : Agricultural Instruction for 

 Soldiers, by Nazzari : How Chile Salt|»eter May be Replaced in the Future, by 

 A. Frank and K. Birkeland; "\^'hat is the P>est Organization of Agricultural Re- 

 .search. by A. C. True. Thomas Kosntany, and F. W. Dafert ( E. S. R., is, p. 

 1()r>S) ; On the Effectiveness of Demonstration Trials in Pots or in the Field, by 

 O. Reitniair; Statistics and Charts on Peat, by W. P.erscli : and New Practice 

 in Moor Culture, by R. Tacke. 



Seventh annual general report of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction for Ireland (Dcpt. Afjr. ami Tech. Instr. Ireland, Ann. 

 (!(n. Rj)t.. 7 (t!>OG-li). pp. VI+GoS). — Along with administrative matters this 

 report contains details of the department's work in agriculture, including agri- 

 cultural instruction, and in technical instruction, including domestic science. 



Under agricultural instruction an account is given of itinerant instruction 

 and spec'ial courses, and of the instruction given at the Royal College of Science, 

 Cirencester: Albert Agricultural College, (Jla.snevin; agricultural stations, agri- 

 cultural cla.sses and schools, Munster Institute, Cork; Ulster Dairy School, 

 Longhry; and schools of rural domestic economy. The report on technical in- 

 stru<-tion includes the organization of a system of instruction in experimental 

 s<ien<-e. drawing, m.mual in.struction and domestic economy in day secondary 

 M-liools, the organization of technical instruction under lix-al authorities, the 

 training of teachers in domestic ec()nomy. .-ind the work of the Irish Training 

 School of Doni(>slic E<'on(>niy and the Killarney School of Housewifery. 



The appendixes include a table showing the 11107 apiKtrtionment of funds for 

 4>ducational and other purposes, schemes of instruction in agricultural subjects. 

 prosiKH-tuses of agricultural colleges and stations and schools of rural economy, 

 program of experimental science, drawing, and domestic economy for day sec- 

 'Hidary s<hools. |irogranis of the institutions under the direct control of the 

 <lep;irtinent. examples of schemes of technical instruction in nonagricultural 

 sulijwts. including domestic science, list of da.v secondary schools, showing 

 grants paid for instruction in the sub.jects of the de|)artment's pn.gram during 

 I'.Mi.'MJ, a list of home industries classes in receipt of aid during l!M)t>-7, and 

 a list of s<Mence. art. jind te<'lmical schools and classes working in coiniection 

 witli the department or under local schemes. 



[Agricultural and forestry instruction in Austria and Germany] ( Land ii. 

 i'oiHttr. Intvrrichts Zip., 21 (1901). So. ,?-J, />/>. /7.7-307).— This numl)er is 

 devote*] to (1) the following special articles: observations on Forestry In- 

 .vtnictioM, by .\. Cieslar: Th«' Development and Problems of Analyti<'al Chem- 

 istry, by <;. \'ortniann ; Observations on Methods of Instruction in Secon<lary 

 .Vt'ricultural Schools, by .\. Kulisz: and Itinenint Cooking and Housekeeping 

 <'ourses for the F.irudug Comuiuuity of Upper Austria: y'l) i»reseut status and 



