no NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [15:3— March, 1919 



Hebrew prophet and turns the heart of the fathers to the children 

 and the heart of the children to the fathers." 



Make use of the publications of the Department of Agriculture. 

 Recently, lesson helps have been published by the Division of 

 Agricultural Education suggesting methods of using bulletins in 

 schools. The lantern slides for gardening and nature-study, men- 

 tioned in this number are most valuable. The Department of 

 Agriculture is a great university extension course whose researches 

 are free. Are you on its mailing list? If not, write to Joseph 

 Arnold, Division of Publications to put your name on it. With 

 your school as a unit of the U. S. S. G. and with information from 

 the government bureaus to guide you, your school will be so 

 vitalized that the harvest time will so quickly follow the seed time 

 that you wonder how the growing time escaped you. 



New York State Agricultural College has met the demand for 

 instruction of teachers in gardening by offering a well planned 

 Slimmer course in the subject. If one can spare two summers for 

 the work he can procure an interesting and practical course that is 

 applicable to the home garden, school garden or community work. 

 This course gives credit of thirteen points for a degree, seven the 

 first Slimmer, six the second. A certificate is also given stating 

 that such a course has been taken. 



The first summer the course covers general vegetable gardening 

 each class member having his own garden plot; garden flowers; 

 soils and their treatment including a study of fertilizers; nature- 

 study, and for the benefit of teachers a course in management of 

 children's gardens. A small garden grown by children is used for 

 the purpose and through classes of children demonstrations of 

 correlated classroom subjects are given. 



The course of the second summer includes more advanced work in 

 vegetable gardening. Visits are made to successful home and 

 community gardens. The work of the previous summer in garden 

 flowers is applied by planning home and school gardens from a 

 decorative point of view. Nature prose writers and poets are read 

 and discussed in the advanced nature-study. Actual practice in 

 handling children in garden classes is offered in methods work. 

 Garden insects and pests are also studied in the advanced course. 



Try the course next summer. Nothing can keep you from com- 

 pleting it the second year. 



