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(1) IN the past the “Farm Institute” has been very inadequately represented in our system of agricultural education, but of late much has been done to remedy this defect, and, but for the outbreak of war, more would by now have been accomplished. This type of institution is designed to serve primarily the needs of the country youth whose general education is inadequate for the more advanced courses of the universities and agricultural colleges. The common type of “farm institute” student will thus be the youth whose previous education has been restricted to the curriculum of the rural elementary school with, in most cases, an intervening period of practical work on the farm.
(1) A Student's Book on Soils and Manures.
By Dr. E. J. Russell. Pp. ix + 206. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1915.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
(2) Soils and Plant Life as Related to Agriculture.
By Prof. J. C. Cunningham W. H. Lancelot. Pp. xx + 348. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1915.) Price 5s. net.
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(1) A Student's Book on Soils and Manures (2) Soils and Plant Life as Related to Agriculture. Nature 97, 55 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097055a0
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