AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 993 



iun her to wholosdinc social U-adcrship for the l)i'tu>rineiit of the wliolc coiii- 

 uuinity. 



One woman's work for farm w^omen, Jknnik Kukli, (Boston, HXhS, pp. 78). — 

 This is a l)iof,'raphical sketch of the late Mary A. Mayo, dealing with her work 

 In rural soeial movements, especially throngh the grange and in the women's 

 sessions of farmers' institutes in Michigan. In the latter work Mrs. Mayo was 

 the tirst woman leader. 



Agriculture in rural schools, A. M. Dunton (Norf Incest. A(jr., ^Jf (1909), 

 Nos. I!, pp. 7. .s. fif/s. 7 ; 7, /). S). — An article on the development and influence of 

 the agricnitnral liiirli school at Mclutosli. Minn. 



The Home Gardening" Association (Ann. Rpt. Jlonic (Idrd. Assoc. [Cleve- 

 land], 9 ( 19US). pp. S'l, /hjs. J9). — A report of tiie year's activities of this associa- 

 tion laying special emphasis upon the work of the "training garden" begun 

 experimentally in 190G. This aims to give boys " practical experience in the 

 preparation of the soil, the selection and planting of seed, the rotation of crops, 

 and the sale of the produce " of school gardens. An important educati(mal feature 

 of this plan is the keeping of an individual "garden diary" of all work done 

 and produce sold. Such a diary, with experiments performed, is presented. 



School gardening and nature study in English rural schools and in London, 

 SCSAN I'y. SUM': (('. ^'. Drpt. Aijr.. Office IJ'ijit. Stas. Jiul. 20-';. pp. ,il . fi(js. Jo). — 

 This is a report upon some studies of methods of teaching nature study and 

 school gardening in England conducted by the author in connection with a 

 recent visit to Europe. An account is given of the nature-study book in the 

 schools of Whitechaiiel, London, including a roof garden, nature-study museum, 

 country-in-town exhibition, and a school nature-study union ; nature study at 

 the Kentish Town Koad School, London: rural school gardens, including the 

 work of agricultural insi)ectors, and evening and day school gardens: and 

 teachers' courses and examinations, including sunmjer courses, at the Horti- 

 cultural College, Swanley. Kent. 



A manual for high schools with special reference to science and agriculture, 

 J. Main { Kno.ivillc, Tcnn., 1909, pp. 32, /itjs. 0, map I, dyni, J). — This is a 

 tentative scheme for working out a practical and pedagogical correlation be- 

 tween agricultiu-e and the other subjects commonly included in a good high 

 schof)! curriculum, with special reference to tlie work in natural and physical 

 science. One of the leading aims in the plan is to bring foi'ward each successive 

 phase of agriculture at the season when it may be botli of the highest psycho- 

 logical interest and greatest practical value. The manual includes an elaborate 

 course of study, detailed plans for an agricultural school library, and a list of 

 requifi'd laboratory e(|uii»nient. 



Teachers' manual of elementary agriculture, nature study, and domestic 

 science (Boston and London, I90S, pp. 117, pi. 1. fifjs. .> ) . — This manual has 

 betni prepared under the direction of the Colorado Teachers" Association, and is 

 introduced in a foreword by F. E. Thompson, of the Colorado State University, 

 which contains a statement of the teacher's jjroblem in the rural schools, with 

 general and specific suggestions toward its solution. There follow brief chap- 

 ters on soils. i)lant life, school gardening, field crops, insects and I»irds. live 

 stock, and domestic science, each prepared b.v a specialist. The manual closes 

 with a bibliograi>hy for agricultural and nature-study work. 



Public school agriculture, 1909 (Mass. Aj/r. Col., Drpt. Afjr. Ed. \raniphlct'\, 

 1909, pp. 32). — Tliis pamphlet is the work of a connnittee ait|>ointed at the chise 

 of a conference f>n agricultural science at .\nd)erst. Mass., in 1!M).S. to prepare a 

 series of teachable exercises on elementary agri<Milture. The ex<'rcises proposed 

 nmnher ~>\. distributed over llic study of soils, capillarity, drainage, evaporation, 



