June 10, 1887.] 



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the albuminoid constituents of swill-milk coagu- 

 late more firmly than in other milk, and that 

 consequently it is much more difficult to digest. 

 I have made no personal observations in regard to 

 this, and therefore can give no personal informa- 

 tion of value. The question is certainly an im- 

 portant one, and I hope you will be able to collect 

 information which will clear up some of the dis- 

 puted points. 



[To be continued.l 



THE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



The appearance of the third annual report of 

 the Industrial education association of New York 

 City, and the importance of the work which it 



founded, and to prevent its degenerating into care- 

 less and erratic methods of teaching, which might 

 expose the system to misconception in its objects 

 and operation. 



It cannot be claimed that the kitchen-garden 

 system was educational, save indirectly. It was 

 practical philanthropy. The term seems to have 

 originated with Miss Emily Huntington, who 

 published a book on the subject in 1878. By 

 'kitchen-garden' Miss Huntington denoted an 

 application of some details of Froebel's kinder- 

 garten system to domestic service. The associa- 

 tion was convinced of the value of the applica- 

 tion, and in its fii"st annual report, made in May, 

 1881, was able to state that during the year the 

 principles of kitchen-garden had been applied in 



has undertaken and is accomplishing, serve to di- 

 rect anew the attention of educators and teachers 

 all over the country to a force which is growing 

 mightier week by week, and which is making it- 

 self felt as a power for good in our educational 

 system. 



The growth of the association's work is a most 

 excellent example of the development of an idea. 

 In April, 1880, there was incorporated in New 

 York City The kitchen-garden association. The 

 objects of this association were the promotion of 

 the domestic industrial arts among the laboring 

 classes, by giving to the children of the same, and 

 to such others as might be deemed desirable, gra- 

 tuitous instruction in the household arts, accord- 

 ing to the principle of the kitchen-garden system ; 

 and also to promote a wide and correct diffusion 

 of the principles upon which the system had been 



29 classes, comprising 990 children, in New York 

 City and vicinity alone. Many other cities fol- 

 lowed New York's example, and similar classes 

 were reported as existing in Brooklyn, Philadel- 

 phia, Boston, Albany, Troy, St. Louis, Cincinnati, 

 Wilkesbarre, Meadville, Newark, Poughkeepsie, 

 Elmira, and Newport. In this initial report the 

 same note is sounded that is heard again in the 

 last report which has just been issued. It is that 

 too much stress cannot be laid upon the impor- 

 tance of training teachers for this work. Persons 

 must not be permitted to take it up without ade- 

 quate preparation. In thus insisting on a profes- 

 sional training for teachers, the association, in the 

 earliest days of its history, placed itself upon a 

 proper plane, and made its future successful de- 

 velopment possible. One year later, in May, 1883, 

 one or two points of advance were chronicled. 



