yo AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



school for the poor at Hopvvyl, and many of the pupils were 

 juvenile offenders of various sorts (90). Several Fellenburg 

 schools were established in this country in the early part of the 

 last century. The Journal brought the work of these schools in 

 this country and in Europe into notice again. About the same 

 time there seems to have been a revival of these methods in 

 certain schools and institutions in this country. Practically all 

 of the reform schools for boys in the United States are now 

 provided with farms, and agriculture is an important part of 

 their work. How much influence, if any, the Journal had in 

 bringing this about we do not know. But we find it giving, on 

 the one hand, details of such work as in the agricultural school 

 just referred to, and on the other, accounts and discussions of 

 reform schools and institutions for homeless children in this 

 country (91). 



Education in foreign countries occupied a prominent place 

 in the Journal. From time to time accounts of agricultural 

 education in various countries appeared. A good example of 

 these accounts is to be found in one devoted to agricultural edu- 

 cation in France and about twenty different parts of the world. 

 This is a part of an exhaustive study of scientific instruction 

 applied to national industries in different countries (92). 



The first group of educational periodicals those mainly de- 

 voted to general problems of education or to publication of educa- 

 tional research is quite small in number compared with the other 

 two groups. Their circulation is also much less than most of those 

 of the third group. Notwithstanding their small number and 

 limited circulation these periodicals contain some of our most 

 valuable educational literature, and are, on the whole, a source 

 of high authority in educational matters. The attention given 

 to agricultural education is much less than would seem to be 

 warranted in view of the great public interest in the subject and 

 of the fact of its rapid introduction into schools of various sec- 

 tions of the country. Compared with other sources the litera- 

 ture on this subject as found in the leading periodicals of this 



