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15. Results of Boys' Demonstration Work in Corn Clubs in igio. S. A. KNAPP 

 and O. P. MARTIN. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Doc. 647 (1910), 7. 



The origin of the boys' corn club work in connection with the fanners' 

 demonstration work is traced back to 1906, and a brief review of the 

 development of the movement since 1909 is given. 



16. The American System of Agricultural Education. A. C. TRUE and 

 D. J. CROSBY. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment 

 Stations, Cir. 83 (1009), 27. 



Agricultural education in America is discussed briefly as follows: De- 

 partments of original research and graduate study in agriculture ; agricultural 

 colleges ; secondary schools of agriculture ; elementary schools ; schools for 

 Negroes and Indians. Under elementary instruction the work in different 

 parts of the country includes, (i) nature-study with plants, farm crops, 

 domestic animals, and soils; (2) school garden work, including improvement 

 of school grounds; (3) lecture courses and institutes for rural school 

 children ; (4) organization of clubs among school children. 



17. Experiment Station Record. E. W. ALLEN, editor. U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations. 



The Record contains numerous abstracts of publications of the agri- 

 cultural experiment stations and kindred institutions in this and other 

 countries ; articles and editorials on topics of special interest in agricultural 

 science by American and foreign experts. One department is devoted en- 

 tirely to reviews of publications on agricultural education. With the begin- 

 ning of the current volume (XXI) this serial will be issued in two volumes 

 a year of six numbers each. Subscription, one dollar per volume, payable 

 in advance to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing 

 Office, Washington, D.C. 



18. Form of Organization for Movable Schools of Agriculture. JOHN HAMILTON. 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, Cir. 79 

 (1908), 8. 



A plan is proposed to organize movable schools of agriculture for 

 farmers over nineteen years of age and for teachers in rural schools. A 

 course is to extend over three or four seasons. The purpose is to equip 

 several persons in each community "so that they will be able to improve 

 in their locality the branch of agriculture which the school represents." 



19. Education for Country Life. WILLET M. HAYES. U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, Cir. 84 (1909), 40. 



This is a reprint of an address given before the Minnesota Educational 

 Association, January 2, 1908. It contains a general discussion of agricultural 

 education, followed by plans for organization of schools for country life, 

 county system of consolidated rural schools, or the farm school, the agri- 

 cultural high school, and financing consolidated rural schools in Minnesota. 



20. List of publications of the Office of Experiment Stations on agricultural 

 education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, 

 Cir. Oct. 27, 1908, 13. 



This comprises 136 publications: 24 circulars, 65 bulletins, 25 sepa- 

 rates, 9 lectures, 3 documents. All phases of agricultural education from 

 elementary to graduate instruction are represented. The following are 



