NOTE. Correlate with language and drawing. a. Meat producers. d. Same outline as above. a. Same outline as for horses and cattle. VI. Bees. 1. Kinds. 4. Commercial value of wax. a. Egg producers. h. Insect enemies. 3. Care of ducks and geese. VIII. Orchard. 1. Kinds of fruit as determined by soil and climate. IX. Small fruits. 1. How cultivated. 3. Preservation for winter use-canning, drying, etc. X. Forestry. 1. Care of the wood lot. 2. Reforesting. NOTE.-Correlate with nature study. XI. Kitchen garden. 1. Location, care, variety of vegetables. 2. Storage Cellars, pits. 1. Location, drainage, etc. XV. Things that will improve appearance of farm. 1. Paint. SUGGESTIONS. Some use may be made of geology, botany, and chemistry, but scientific phraseology should be avoided and teachers should remember that agriculture is the science taught. Correlation: This subject should be correlated with language, geography, arithmetic and drawing. Make the work practical. Sources of information: James' Practical Agriculture, Hatch and Hazelwood's Elementary Agriculture, George's Plan Books, Bulletins of Agriculture, Michigan Farmer, Teachers' Journal, conversation of practical farmers and men of affairs. SUGGESTIONS FOR MANUAL TRAINING. This course will principally cover instruction in the use of wood-working tools, their names, parts, uses and care. It will include exercises with pencil, knife, gauge, try-square and T-bevel; the making of the plain joint, the mortise, the tennon; splicing and dove-tailing, with some wood carving. It is unnecessary to state here the different articles that may be made. Blacksmithing. This will include the proper tending of forge, how to clean, start fire, hold heat; welding, annealing, tempering, twisting and soldering. Drawing. The drawing will cover general freehand work, mechanical drawing, ornamental lettering, geometric construction, simple projection, drawing to square, geometric solids, perspective, architectural drawingincluding plans, elevations, details, working drawings and blue prints. Domestic Science and Art. This work will include basting, stitching, gathering, buttonholing, darning, patching, feather stitching, and applications of these on small garments and other useful articles, such as kimonos, a prons, sewing bags, etc. The eye must be trained to accuracy. In the latter part of the work of sewing we may include measuring, drafting of fitted linings, waists and skirts, and cutting from drafts and patterns. In the work of cooking we should include building and care of the fire, oven temperature, sources and composition of foods, food values and classifications of foods, chemical changes in the process of cooking, and for practical work a study of marketing, cuts of meats and carving. To this will be added laboratory work in which each student will prepare representative foods, such as beverages, cereals, eggs, meats, soups, vegetables, breads, cakes, etc. LIBRARY. It will not be possible to supply at the beginning a full working library, but each year should find additions until the school is well equipped. It should contain sets of works in literature, history, science and art, such as are proper for any private or public library, and in addition the following books should be secured as early as possible, as they deal particularly with some of the special subjects to be taught in the rural high schools. GENERAL REFERENCES. Adams, D. Appleton & Co. Educational Publishing Co. D. Appleton & Co. Ginn & Co. Studies and observations in the schoolroom. Educational Publishing Co. Painter, History of education. Charles Scribner's Sons. D. C. Heath & Co. AGRICULTURE. Wiley & Sons. Types of farming.. The Macmillan Co. Henry Holt & Company. Orange Judd Company. New agriculture. Donohue. American Book Co. Doubleday, Page & Co. Breeder's Gazette. AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. The Macmillan Co. Laboratory manual of organic chemistry. Wiley & Sons. Sadtler, Industrial organic chemistry... . Lippincott. Agriculture in some of its relations with .Charles Scribner's Sons. Voorhees, Chemistry of soil and fertilizers... The Macmillan Co. SOILS. Campbell, Soil culture. Hall, The soil. Hilgard, E. W.. Soils..... Roberts, I. P., The fertility of the land The farmstead.. Voorhees, E. B., Fertilizers... The Macmillan Co. The Macmillan Co. The Macmillan Co. MANUAL TRAINING. A. Flanagan Co. Working tools and how to use them....D. C. Heath & Co. Dopp, Katherine, Industries in elementary education...... University of Chicago Press. Ham, Charles H., Mind and hand... American Book Co. Rouillion, Economics of manual training. First lessons in handicraft. D. C. Heath & Co. DOMESTIC SCIENCE. The Macmillan Co. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Handbook of household science..... Webb Publishing Co. Wilson, Handbook of domestic science.. The Macmillan Co. HOME DECORATION. Burrage and Bailey, School and home sanitation and decoration.D. C. Heath & Co. Dodd, Mead & Co. Charles Scribner's Sons. Doubleday, Page & Co. COUNTY SCHOOLS OF AGRICULTURE. I give herewith a bulletin prepared during the current year giving the plan of organization, the course of study and a reference library list for county schools of agriculture. These schools were authoized by the legislature of 1907 and Menominee county at once began preparations for the establishment of such a school. The county voted $20,000 for building and equipment. The city of Menominee gave a tract of land containing one hundred fiffeen acres. The board of education was elected and organized and the work begun. The building has been constructed and the school will open early in the first of the year 1908. It will be noted that the course of study covers two years, its aim being to take up the work at the close of the eighth grade and Course of to combine in the succeeding two years a practical business course study. together with elementary work in the subjects pursued in schools of agriculture. It is too early to pass any positive opinion as to the value and results of the organization of such schools, and I shall watch the progress of the institution at Menominee with great interest. The purpose of this article in |