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63. "Shall Teachers Be Prepared to Give Instruction in Elementary Agri- 

 culture?" B. M. DAVIS. The Western Journal of Education, May, 

 1906, 5-15. 



This is a report submitted to the Joint Board of the California State 

 Normal School Trustees at its annual meeting held at Chico, Cal., April 

 15, 1906. It discusses the organization of agricultural education in the 

 United States, agriculture in the elementary schools, work in Canada, 

 N.E.A. report on industrial education in schools for rural communities, 

 work of the normal schools, the problem as concerns the California normal 

 schools including a tabulation of answers to questionnaire sent to all the 

 county superintendents of the state, and a discussion of the work of the 

 normal school. 



64. "What Has Been Done by Normal Schools and Agricultural Colleges for 

 Popular Education hi Agriculture." E. E. BALCOMB. Proceedings of the 

 National Education Association for rpoy, 1069-75. 



This report is a summary to answers to letters to the president of each 

 agricultural college, to each state normal school, and to certain other schools 

 of the United States. 



65. Education for Efficiency. E. Davenport. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. 

 (1909), 184. 



Its subtitle is "A discussion of certain phases of the problem of uni- 

 versal education with special reference to academic ideals and methods." 

 The book is in two parts : the first, a discussion from general educational 

 standpoint including education for efficiency, industrial education with 

 special reference to high school, as a phase of the problem of universal 

 education, educative value of labor, culture aim and unity in education ; 

 the second, an illustration of the principles discussed in first part as ap- 

 plied to agriculture including agriculture in the high school, in the ele- 

 mentary school, in the normal school, and the development of agriculture 

 what it is and what it means. 



66. "The Organic Field of Nature-Study." GEORGE H. HUDSON. Nature- 

 Study Review, Vol. Ill, No. 5 (1907), 129-35. 



A scheme is given outlining the subject in considerable detail in two 

 parts ; one, the physical or practical, the other, the psychical. Both are 

 amplified by a discussion which follows. 



67. School Gardens for California Schools. B. M. DAVIS. Chico, Cal.: 

 State Normal School Bulletin No. i (1905), 79. 



This is a manual for teachers. It discusses the history of school 

 gardens and their educational importance, the plant and its relations, plant 

 propagation, instruction including aim and scope, practical work, correlative 

 subjects, adaption to school conditions, etc. The annotated bibliography 

 of nearly three hundred titles is a summary of the literature of the sub- 

 ject up to 1905. 



68. Normal School Instruction in Agriculture. N. J. ABBEY. U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, Circular 90 (1909), 31. 



This circular "sets forth in a brief way the manner in which agricul- 

 ture is taught at the Maysville State Normal School, No. Dakota." It 

 contains a discussion of why normal schools should train teachers in 



