ington, D. C., March 28 to April 4, together with information concerning the personnel of the advisory committee. The functions of the committee are explained and advice on remedial measures was requested from the committee concerning some of the agricultural problems of the country. Among these are included the question of price as it is effected by government buying: the handling of the sugar and other crops; the obtaining of nitrate; the extension of the seed service; questions of farm labor and machinery; of live stock and dairying.

Monthly crop report (U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rpt., 4 (1918), No. 5, pp. 45-56, figs. 4). This report contains data regarding the condition May 1 of winter wheat, rye, hay, and spring pasture, and the percentage of spring plowing and planting done on May 1, the estimated farm value of important products on April 15 and May 1, the average prices received by producers, and the range of prices of agricultural products at important markets. It also contains special reports on the condition of the peaches, production of maple sugar and sirup, crop conditions in Florida and California, crop acreage by States, Louisiana sugar-cane acreage, stocks of hay May 1, acreage and yield of edible dried peas in important producing States, index figures of crop prices, percentage of farms reporting various crops and live stock (1910 census), winter-sown oats acreage, the relative supplies of crops on farms January 1, the honey bee and condition of colonies May 1, an estimate of the time when the crop of potatoes is disposed of, a statistical article with reference to the southern production of cowpeas, soy beans, velvet beans, and peanuts, etc.

Farmers' market bulletin (North Carolina Sta., Farmers' Market Bul., 5 (1918), Nos. 21, pp. 7; 22, pp. 9; 23, pp. 7).-These numbers contain the usual list of products which farmers have for sale, together with special reports on the demand for Irish and sweet potatoes, and the mill price for corn, by W. R. Camp.

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

Allotment of agricultural education and research, M. CUMMING, W. R. REEK, J. A. GRENIER, W. B. ROADHOUSE, R. FLETCHER, J. MCCAIG, and L. S. KLINCK (Agr. Gaz. Canada, 5 (1918), No. 3, pp. 267-272).-This is a series of brief articles by Government officials, outlining the organization and control of agricultural education and research in the various Provinces of Canada.

In Nova Scotia the heads of the various divisions of the department of agriculture are also the heads of the corresponding divisions of the college of agriculture, and the director of rural education of the department of education has charge of the agricultural education in the schools, including school fairs, school gardens, etc. He frequently secures the services and always has the cooperation of the officers of the department of agriculture.

The New Brunswick Department of Agriculture carries on all agricultural extension or educational work, and in agreement with the department of education also supervises the work of elementary agricultural education.

In the Province of Quebec matters pertaining to agriculture, even the school fairs, are under the direction of the department of agriculture, which receives full cooperation from the department of public instruction and school inspectors as regards the teaching of agriculture in the schools. Macdonald College, which conducts a large number of researches and experiments, and the agricultural schools of Ste. Anne de la Pocatière and Oka also cooperate closely with the department of agriculture.

In Ontario all the agricultural work comes under the department of agriculture, including the administration of the Ontario Agricultural College, the Ontario Veterinary College, the proposed new agricultural school at Kempt

ville, and the experimental farms in the Province. At the same time the agricultural college and the veterinary college are affiliated with the University of Toronto for academic purposes and the degrees for the final year are presented by that university. Both of these colleges are presided over by presidents who are directly responsible to the minister of agriculture. The research work is also a branch of college activities, particularly of the Ontario Agricultural College, but does not come under the university authorities. Practically all of the extension work of the department is directe from its head office at Toronto, with close cooperation between the officers in charge and the professors and experimental staff of the colleges and farms. The department of education has the administration of the other educational bodies in the Province, including public schools, high schools, collegiate institutes, and universities, and has entire control of the instruction in agriculture given in the public and high schools. In planning the agricultural work conferences are held between the officials of the departments of education and agriculture so that the former may have the benefit of the special training of the latter. The Manitoba Department of Education is in close cooperation with the extension department of the Manitoba Agricultural College, and matters relating to agricultural education affecting the pupils in the schools are submitted to it for approval before being put into effect.

In Alberta research work is centered in the university, except that in the three provincial agricultural schools, which are interposed between the university and the public schools, there is some research and experimental work carried on. The agricultural schools and popular and short courses are administered and organized wholly by the department of agriculture. The university and department cooperate fully in all kinds of lecture and instruction work. The department of education controls the school-garden work, which is encouraged by special grants, and also cooperates with the department of agriculture in the work of the district agents, which up to the present has been largely taken up with organizing home gardens and conducting school fairs. The department of education gives special courses in agriculture to fit teachers for their work. Its teaching of agriculture in secondary schools is limited to teaching and directing a course in the high schools which is compulsory for those taking a teacher's course.

As the result of two conferences of representatives of the departments of agriculture and education of British Columbia and the University of British Columbia, held in November, 1917, it was agreed that all agricultural research, whether conducted at Point Grey or at some other center in the Province, be under the university authorities. All agricultural courses exceeding three days' duration in which particular emphasis is placed on the science underlying the principles taught would be conducted in future by the university rather than by the department of agriculture. The department of agriculture Is to conduct all illustration and demonstration field work and all work having for its object increased agricultural production, and continue to publish popular bulletins whether prepared by department officials or by members of the staff of the university. Full cooperation between the university and the departments of agriculture and education is projected, including the interchange of instructors when deemed advisable. Continuation classes in agriculture ⚫ under the department of education are to be open to both young men and young women students who have attained the age of 15 years. A tentative arrangement is to be arrived at between the departments of agriculture and education whereby the minimum age limit for membership in boys' and girls' clubs would be fixed at 11 years for 1918 and 12 years for 1919, and the scope of the competition in these clubs is to be extended to include special projects for girls.

In Saskatchewan the arrangement of work as between the departments of agriculture and education and the university is practically the same as that obtaining in British Columbia.

Report of the commission on the investigation of agricultural education (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1918, pp. 61).-This report of the special commission appointed in 1916 for the purpose of investigating the subject of agricultural education as conducted at the Massachusetts Agricultural College and the development of the agricultural resources of the Commonwealth, has been previously noted (E. S. R., 38, p. 301).

Duty of our State legislators to our agricultural institutions, W. H. JORDAN (N. Y. Dept. Agr. Bul. 92 (1917), pp. 127–134).—An address in which the relation of the State to some problems of station administration is specially discussed.

Some documents on the history of agricultural education in Mexico (Algunos Documentos para la Historia de la Enseñanza Agricola en Mexico. Mexico: Govt., 1912, pp. [2]+130).—This is a detailed history of the National School of Agriculture at San Jacinto, D. F., Mexico.

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Rural relations of high schools, C. J. GALPIN and J. A. JAMES (Wisconsin Sta. Bul. 288 (1918), pp. 44, figs. 18).—This bulletin consists of two parts, dealing respectively with the social and agricultural relations of high schools. Attention is called to the increasing value of headwork on American farms through the gradual replacement of the "hoe farmer" by the machine farmer" and the consequent necessity of high-school education for the farmer. It is suggested that, inasmuch as only about one-eighth of the area of Wisconsin is included in high-school districts, by some form of agreement responsibility for educational ideals over the natural and legitimate rural area of influence adjoining each high-school district be apportioned among the existing highschool boards and faculties of the county. In several Wisconsin communities attempts have been made to take into account the mutual relations of country schools and high schools, and the methods employed are described in some detail. A demand for schools reflecting the daily life and interests of the agricultural community found a response in special schools of agriculture and home economics, established in Wisconsin by individual counties within the last 15 years. The agricultural instruction given in the Wisconsin high schools, including home and school project work, boys' and girls' clubs, extension work, community fairs, and live-stock judging, together with the equipment needed, is briefly described. Such vocational training has been found of great practical value in the improvement of agricultural practices and home life in the community. Vocational training in agriculture (Agr. Gaz. Canada, 5 (1918), No. 3, pp. 289-292). In this article the means adopted in the United States for the promotion of vocational training in agriculture are compared with the objects aimed at by the Agricultural Instruction Act in Canada, which is intended to assist in the field covered by the Smith-Lever and the Smith-Hughes Acts in this country. It is found that while there is a marked similarity of purpose between the United States and the Canadian acts, the application of funds is more restricted in the former than in the latter case. The Agricultural Instruction Act contains no limitations with reference to the application of funds to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of buildings or equipment, to the purchase or rental of lands, or to the support of any religious or privately owned school or college.

Lessons on pork production for elementary rural schools, E. A. MILLER (U. S. Dept. Agr. Bul. 646 (1918), pp. 26, figs. 15).—Attention is called to the importance and educational value of pork production, and nine lessons, including practical exercises, references to literature, and suggestive correlations, are

outlined on the following topics: Types and breeds, houses, swine judging, fattening meat hogs, selecting breeding stock, dressing and curing meat, sow and pig management, forage crops, and sanitation and diseases.

Lessons on corn for rural elementary schools, C. H. LANE (U. S. Dept. Agr. Bul. 653 (1918), pp. 19, figs. 7).—A revision of Farmers' Bulletin 617 (E. S. R., 32, p. 197), including additional material on the adaptation of the lessons to the needs of the community, the use of illustrative material, and correlating the work with other school subjects.

Country life readers, third book, CORA W. STEWART (Richmond, Va.: B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1917, pp. [2]+285, figs. 41).—This is the third book of the series of three country life readers by the founder of moonlight schools. It includes writings dealing with the forest, birds, insects, the grass family, important farm plants, including corn, cotton, hemp, alfalfa, potato, the bean field, and the pumpkin, flowers, fruits, animals, the farmer and the farmer's wife, civics, and the Scripture. The purposes of the book are to point out the beauties of country life and to lead the readers to the best authors who write of country life. The series is designed for use in evening rural schools for adults or moonlight schools.

Some mechanical aids in nature study, W. G. VINAL (Nature-Study Rev., 14 (1918), No. 2, pp. 60–73).-The author briefly describes some general and specific aids in teaching nature study.

Home economics.-State course of study for elementary and secondary schools of Indiana, BERTHA Latta (Ind. State Dept. Pub. Instr. Bul. 29 (1917), PP. 44). This bulletin contains outlines of courses of study in home economics for (1) the seventh and eighth grades of rural schools, to give the pupils a general view of the field of home economics rather than a detailed study of any line, (2) the seventh and eighth grades of city schools to give the pupils a general view of the field of home economics through a detailed study of continuous courses, and (3) the high school, including one year of work each in foods and cookery, clothing and textiles, and home management.

Lists of individual and group equipment and references to helpful literature are included.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Report of the John Jacob Astor Branch Experiment Station, 1914-15, H. A. LINDGREN (Oregon Sta., Rpt. John Jacob Astor Sta., 1914-15, pp. 6, figs. 3). An account is given of the establishment of this substation in 1913 and its development up to January 4, 1915.

Report of the Southern Oregon Branch Experiment Station, 1914-15, F. C. REIMER (Oregon Sta., Rpt. South. Oreg. Sta., 1914-15, pp. 11, fig. 1).—An account is given of the work in progress at this substation.

Monthly Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station (Mo. Bul. Ohio Sta., 3 (1918), Nos. 4, pp. 101–136, figs. 9; 5, pp. 139-167, figs. 14).—These numbers contain, in addition to several articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue and miscellaneous notes, the following:

No. 4.-Work for Belmont County Experiment Farm, by C. W. Montgomery. No. 5.-The More Common Lice of Poultry, by D. C. Mote, an extract from Bulletin 320 (E. S. R., 39, p. 85), and Potato Diseases, by D. C. Babcock, an adaptation from Bulletin 319 (E. S. R., 39, p. 53).

NOTES.

Arkansas University and Station.-H. A. Sandhouse, instructor in animal husbandry and assistant animal husbandman, has resigned to engage in war work and has been succeeded by Earl C. Thurber, of the Kansas College.

Delaware Station.-Dr: Don C. Dyer, chemist, and Dr. R. D. Mullinix, associate chemist, have resigned, the former to accept a commercial position and the latter to become associate professor of chemistry in the University of Florida. R. W. Goss, plant pathologist, has been inducted into military serv ice and will be attached to the Medical Department.

Purdue University and Station.—Chas. Downing, for many years secretary of the State board of agriculture and a member of the board of trustees of the university, died July 27. G. A. Branaman has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry.

Nebraska University.-Dr. Samuel Avery, who has been on leave of absence as chancellor for several months in war service, has been commissioned major in the Chemical Warfare Service of the Army and has been placed in charge of the section on university relations.

Cornell University.-Dean Albert R. Mann has succeeded President J. G. Schurman as a member of the State food commission. Daniel P. Witter, who has been actively identified with farmers' institutes in the State for about 20 years, has been appointed to the staff of the extension department as advisor in institute extension. John H. Voorhees has been appointed to the extension staff in the department of field crops.

North Carolina Station.-According to a note in Science, Dr. R. O. Cromwell, assistant plant pathologist, has been appointed extension plant pathologist at the Iowa College.

Ohio State University.-Benjamin L. Thompson, associate professor of animal husbandry at the South Dakota College, has been appointed specialist of animal husbandry in the agricultural extension service.

Oklahoma College and Station.-The resignations on August 1 are noted of J. S. Malone as head of the department of animal husbandry, Dr. E. A. Benbrook as assistant veterinarian, and Dr. L. Chas. Raiford as professor of chemistry, the two last named having accepted positions at the Iowa College. Dr. John E. Guberlet on July 1 succeeded C. C. Knoblock, resigned as assistant parasitologist. W. E. White has been appointed assistant professor of horticulture, vice Miss Anna Cohen. Carl P. Thompson, of the Kansas College, has been appointed assistant in animal husbandry, beginning August 1, in charge of dairy cattle and hogs.

Pennsylvania Institute of Animal Nutrition.-Owing to the depletion of the institute staff by the demands of the war and the difficulty of securing a sufficient number of competent assistants with the funds available, it is anticipated that the investigations with the respiration calorimeter which have been in progress since 1902, with the cooperation of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, will have to be discontinued for the present. The investigations since 1915 have been upon the metabolism of dairy cows, with the cooperation of the Dairy Division of the Department, and it is hoped that it may be possible to continue such phases of the work as do not require the use of the calerimeter.

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