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agriculture and the place of agriculture in the normal school curriculum. 

 Most of the circular is a detailed account of the work, including textbook 

 instruction, class exercises, laboratory instruction, typical laboratory exer- 

 cises, apparatus, the school garden, the model school, visiting a rural school, 

 field excursions, methods, correlation, and difficulties. 



69. Normal Agricultural Society. CHARLES R. WEEKS. Peru, Neb.: State 

 Normal School, Special Cir. (1909), i. 



This circular gives history, purposes, and plans of this organization. 



70. Western Illinois State Normal Experiment Field. J. T. JOHNSON. 

 Macomb, 111.: State Normal School, Cir. i (1907), 4. 



The circular contains statement of purpose, location, and plans of con- 

 ducting the soil experiment field. 



71. A Correlated Course of Study in Agriculture, Geography, and Physiology 

 for Rural Schools. E. A. COCKEFAIR. Cape Girardeau, Mo.: State 

 Normal School, Special Bulletin (1909), 63. 



It contains daily program of recitation ; general outline including 

 such subjects as seed, corn judging, corn selection, corn breeding, how corn 

 grows, the soil, crops, foods, live stock judging, markets, dairying, garden- 

 ing, fruit growing, forestry, cooking, sewing, home decoration ; elaboration 

 of outline. 



72. Elementary Horticulture for California Schools. C. F. PALMER. Los 

 Angeles, Cal.: State Normal School, Bui. (1910), 76. 



The following subjects are discussed: The school garden; The lath- 

 house ; Seed-sowing in boxes ; Transplanting ; Propagation of plants ; 

 Potting and repotting of plants ; House plants ; Window boxes and their 

 care ; The planting and care of bulbs ; The inside miniature farmstead ; 

 Lawnmaking and care ; Ornamental gardening ; Where to obtain seeds 

 and plants ; Publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 



73. Agriculture and Nature-Study for Rural Schools. H. W. HOCHBAUM. 

 Greeley, Colo.: State Normal School Bulletin, Ser. 10, No. 5 (1910), 44. 



The subject is discussed as follows : Why the rural schools are in- 

 efficient ; The work of the rural school needs to be redirected ; The aims 

 in teaching nature-study and agriculture ; How to redirect the work of rural 

 schools ; Some suggestions for nature-study and agriculture ; Outline of 

 subjects for nature-study and agriculture. 



74. Educational Agriculture. JOSIAH MAIN. Hays, Kan.: Western State 

 Normal School Bulletin, II, No. 3 (1910), 74. 



This bulletin consists of three parts : Part I, Introduction : Limita- 

 tions of the field as a realm of knowledge; Part II, Organization; 

 Motives, Genetic psychology as an aid to organization, The kinaesthetic 

 factor in apperception reaction and inhibition, A problem of readjustment 

 position of the various sciences : Formal discipline and its transfer : 

 Humanistic science, applied science, and agriculture ; Agricultural arts 

 habit v. judgment, Collateral or extra program agriculture, The essential 

 order of presentation. Other correlated subjects, Retardation admission 

 graduation and accrediting of students. Part III, Equipment : The 

 laboratory, Plots and grounds; Agricultural literature. 



