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ties. We have long since been accustomed to examinations for 

 teachers and prescribed reading courses. What community will 

 be the first to insist on both examinations for members of the 

 School Board and prescribed reading courses for them? To this 

 progressive community this book is recommended as one of the 

 best for the reading course. vSuch chapters as the chapter on 

 Fatigue and the Hygiene of Instruction are chapters that every 

 teacher should be familiar with as well as the content of the biblio- 

 graphy to be found at the end of these chapters. 



Materials and Methods in High School Agriculture, William G. 

 Hummell and Bertha R. Hummell. pp. xi + 385. 



This is a somewhat new type of book. It is not a text-book on 

 agriculture so much as it is a discussion of methods and materials 

 to be used in the teaching. It is, therefore, a book for the teacher 

 rather than for the pupil, and high school teachers in agriculture as 

 well as others who are interested in the teaching of agriculture will 

 welcome this book as a source of information regarding what is 

 being done in various parts of the country. Chapter I is historical; 

 Chapter II discusses the reasons for introducing agriculture; 

 Chapter IV is an interesting one on the teaching methods to be 

 employed; Chapter V is on the equipment. Then follow chapters 

 on the first year work, animal husbandry, dairy work, the high 

 school poultry course, and horticulture. Chapter XII is on the 

 school farm. The very title of the chapter suggests the advance 

 we are making in methods of teaching agriculture; Chapter XIII 

 is on the teacher. Every one who is teaching agriculture will need 

 this book as a means of keeping up-to-date in the pedagogy of the 

 subject. 



Sixty Lessons in Agriculture, Buffum and Deaver, pp. 268; The 

 American Book Co. 



The authors state in the preface that this book is intended for 

 the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. The book is simply written ; is so 

 simple and so brief in fact that it is questionable whether there is 

 much of anything in it that a boy in a rural community does not 

 know. There are some practical exercises at the close of many 

 chapters that are suggestive, and the reference to the various 

 bulletins of the United States Department of Agriculture and 

 State Agriculture Departments will help the children to get in 



