CHAPTER VIII 

 EDUCATIONAL PERIODICALS 



The number of educational periodicals published in the 

 United States probably exceeds that on any other subject. Most 

 of these publications are in the library of the United States 

 Bureau of Education. In 1906 they numbered one hundred and 

 fifty-six (86). 



For purposes of classification the periodicals included in this 

 number may be considered fairly representative of all such pub- 

 lications in the United States. They naturally fall into three 

 groups: (i) general, including those devoted to subjects of 

 general interest or to various general problems in education, and 

 whose circulation is not limited to any particular section of the 

 country or class of readers; (2) special, including those devoted 

 to some single phase of education, as, for example, orthography, 

 penmanship, phonetics, geography, school art, manual training, 

 science, etc.; (3) local, including those whose main circulation is 

 confined to a single state or group of states. 



The bibliography alone of contributions and references to 

 agricultural education in these periodicals would occupy several 

 times the space allotted to a single chapter of this book. It 

 will therefore be necessary to confine the discussion of this sub- 

 ject, as represented in various educational periodicals, to some 

 references of historical interest in Barnard's Journal of Educa- 

 tion, and to a brief account of each of the above three groups. 



No investigation of an educational movement would be com- 

 plete without consulting Barnard's Journal of Education. 

 "Wherever libraries of education are now gathered his encyclo- 

 pedic journal has a place of honor. Whoever will found such a 

 library must look first to secure a set of this great work. Because 

 he saw so far, the contents of that great work will not soon grow 

 out of date" (87). In this work are many references to agri- 



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