714 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The order of treatment and the reason for adopting this order are thus stated in 

 the syllabus : ' ' Agricultural operations are conducted for two immediate purposes — to 

 raise plants and to raise animals. Plants are raised either for their own value or for 

 their use in the feeding of animals. In studying agriculture, therefore, it is well to 

 begin with the plant, then proceed to the animal, and then consider questions of 

 practice and management that grow out of these subjects." 



The studies on the plant and crops include the plant itself, environment of the 

 plant, and actual study of the leading crops of the community. Under animals and 

 animal husbandry are included studies of domestic animals and their relationships, the 

 nutrition of animals, and animal products. Part 3 of the syllabus is devoted to farm 

 schemes and management, including kinds of farming, rotations, lay-out of farms, 

 tillage, drainage, and irrigation. 



Agriculture in the public schools, F. Mutchler (Ann. Rpt. Conn. Bd. Agr., 38 

 (1904), pp- 215-227). — An address given at the annual midwinter meeting of the Con- 

 necticut Board of Agriculture, Hartford, December 14-16, 1904, for the purpose of 

 showing how elementary agriculture should be taught. 



School gardens, B. T. Galloway (U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Bui. 160, 

 pp. 47, pis. 5). — A report is given on the school garden work in the District of Colum- 

 bia, conducted in a cooperative way by this Department and the normal schools of 

 the District, under the direction of the Bureau of Plant Industry and Miss Susan B. 

 Sipe, instructor in botany in Normal School No. 1. 



The garden work described includes the boys' vegetable gardens on the grounds of 

 this Department, the home gardens of the normal school pupils, and the improve- 

 ment of school grounds at Normal School No. 1 and 32 other schools in the District. 

 Supplementary to this report is a report by Miss Sipe on school gardens visited by 

 her in the summer of 1904 in Hartford, Conn.; Boston, Brookline, Hyannis, and 

 Worcester, Mass.; St. Louis, Mo.; New York City, Yonkers, and Rochester, N. Y. ; 

 Cleveland, Ohio, and Philadelphia, Pa. Throughout the bulletin an effort has been 

 made to bring out the educational trend of garden work in the different enterprises 

 described. 



Municipal school gardens conducted by the Board of Public Education, 

 Philadelphia, Helen C. Bennett (Philadelphia: Bd. Pub. Ed., 1905, pp. 31, figs. 

 19). — This is a report by the Supervisor of School Gardens in Philadelphia on the 

 school garden work conducted in 1905 under the auspices of the "Board of Public 

 Education. The report includes outlines of lessons given to those working in the 

 gardens, a description of nature-study material sent to schools, and brief accounts of 

 school gardens in Boston, Hartford, New York, and Yonkers. 



The ideal forestry college (Indian Forester, 31 (1905), No. 2, pp. 01-73, ph. 3).— 

 The author visited the forestry colleges and institutes existing in Europe and gives 

 his impressions as to what an ideal forestry college or school should be. The sub- 

 ject is considered under the various headings of situation, buildings, staff, studies, 

 arrangement of the main educational buildings, college gardens, and college educa- 

 tional forests. 



Forest school, H. S. Graves (Bid. Yale Univ., 1. ser., 1905, Xo. 4, pp. 182-186). — 

 An account of the work of the Yale School of Forestry during the year. 



A summer term in forestry has been added to the junior year. This course begins 

 in July of each year instead of the following September. During the preceding 

 summer it was devoted entirely to the subject of sylviculture and forest mensuration 

 at Milford, Pa. By this plan much more time is available for field work than 

 heretofore. During the year 84 students received instruction in forestry. 



Soil and drainage, A. B. Graham (Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State Univ.], 1 (1905), 

 No. 2, pp. 6-9, figs. 3). — Ten simple experiments for use in public schools are 

 described. 





