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135. "The Farmers' Institutes in the United States, 1908." JOHN HAMILTON. 

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

 Report of the Office of Experiment Stations (1908), 289-335. 



A summary of the work of farmers' institutes for 1908 giving insti- 

 tutes held, sessions, attendance, appropriations, and other data concerning 

 the year's work. 



136. The Origin of the Land Grant Act of 1862 and Some Account of Its Author. 

 EDMUND J. JAMES. University of Illinois Bulletin, VIII, No. 10 (1910), 



139. 



"It is proposed to prove in this paper that Jonathan B. Turner, at 

 one time professor in Illinois College at Jacksonville, 111., was the real 

 father of the so-called Morrill Act of July z, 1862, and that he deserves 

 the credit of having been the first to formulate clearly and definitely the 

 plan of a national grant of land to each state in the Union for the pro- 

 motion of education in agriculture and mechanic arts, and having inau- 

 gurated and continued to a successful issue the agitation that made possible 

 the passage of the bill . . . ." (p. 7). 



A reprint of the Turner pamphlet, "Industrial Universities," is ap- 

 pended. This contains an excellent discussion of industrial education, much 

 of which has present-day application. 



137. Michigan State Association of Farmers' Clubs. Proceedings of the 

 Seventeenth Annual Session (1909), 56. 



Besides a report of the proceedings there is included resolutions re- 

 garding state and national affairs, and constitution and by-laws of the 

 Association. 



138. "What Shall We Teach the Farm Child?" H. W. COLLINWOOD. Pro- 

 ceedings of the New Jersey State Horticultural Society, Thirty-fifth Annual 

 Session (1909), 169-74. 



Reviewed in text. 



139. "Agriculture in Our Public Schools." WILLIAM LANGHAM. Proceedings 

 of the Iowa State Horticultural Society, XLIV (1909), 147-54. 



Reviewed in text. 



140. "Report of Committee on School Gardens and Children's Herbariums 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society." Transactions of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society. 1894-1907. 



Beginning with 1894 and continuing to 1907 these reports of the com- 

 mittee on children's school gardens appeared in the transactions of the 

 Society. After 1907 the Society discontinued the special school-garden 

 feature of its meetings and of its transactions. 



141. Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Clubs. F. W. HOWE. U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 385 (1910), 23. 



This bulletin contains history, plans, and recent development of these 

 clubs under the following heads : Introductory Summary of Results ; How 

 Work Has Been Accomplished in Several States ; Assistance Given by the 

 Department of Agriculture ; The Relation of Club Work to Rural Educa- 

 tion ; Suggestions for Organization ; List of References ; Statistics. 



