BOOK NOTES 151 



"Education in the Country for the Country", an address read by 

 •Hon. John Zeller before the Department of Superintendence of the 

 N. E. A., is printed in full in the April issue of The Ohio Teacher 

 (Athens, O.). One of his suggestions is that "there might be organ- 

 ized with profit an interstate commission on agricultural education, 

 composed of states whose climatic and industrial conditions are quite 

 similar". 



The Sierra Educational News for January has an article on Agri- 

 culture in California Schools by Prof. E. B. Babcock, of the University 

 of California, in which he discusses the general plan for organization 

 of nature-study in elementary schools. 



The Illinois Outdoor Improvement Association (Office, 17 E. Van 

 Buren St., Chicago) has issued Pamphlet No. 2, entitled Street Tree 

 Planting for Illinois, written by J. H. Prost, City Forester of Chicago. 

 Price 5 cents. This admirable pamphlet, admirably illustrated, should 

 be in the hands of every teacher of nature-study. 



The Canadian Teacher (36 Shuter St., Toronto, Canada) has in 

 its issue of May 2nd, under the heading of "Current Events", an illus- 

 trated article on Halley's Comet. Teachers will find useful informa- 

 tion here. 



Otwell's Fanner Boy (Carlinville, 111.) is an enterprising monthly 

 paper devoted to the encouragement of better agriculture by better 

 boys. This spring it is promoting a corn growing contest among the 

 farmer boys of America. 



The Elementary School Teacher (Chicago, Illinois) is publishing 

 an excellent series of articles on Agricultural Education, by Prof. B. 

 M. Davis, of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The May number gives 

 the seventh of the series. 



The One-Room Country Schools in Illinois are exhaustively 

 treated in a bulletin published by the Department of Public Instruc- 

 tion, Springfield, Illinois. The bulletin was prepared by Mr. U. J. 

 Hoffman, the State Supervisor of Country Schools, and is being used 

 extensively throughout the state in a general effort to uplift rural 

 school conditions. It is especially helpful in giving plans and specifi- 

 cations for the building and equipment of the one-room rural school.. 

 The illustrations are excellent. 



The rural schools, like the plant breeders, are placing much em- 

 phasis on the study of maize, which because of its size, attractiveness, 

 economic importance, and response to selection, has thus far profitted 

 more than the other cereals from the attention it has received. A most 

 excellent publication is Bulletin 212 of the Ohio Agr. Exp. Station 

 (Woosrer, Ohio), entitled Coin Judging: Studies of Prominent Ear 

 Characters in their Relation to Yield. The Oklahoma Agr. Exp. Sta- 

 tion (Stillwater, Okla. ) has just issued Bulletin 87, entitled Corn Cul- 

 ture, treating of the whole process of corn growing, and hence sugges- 

 gestive to teachers who wish to follow the crop throughout the year. 

 How to Test Seed Corn in School is admirably presented by Director 

 A. C. True in Circular 96, Office of Experiment Station, U. S. Dept. of 

 Agric. It is a seven-page illustrated circular, bearing the date of 

 April 9, 1910, and gives practical directions for school or home study 

 of germination tests. A fourth recent agricultural experiment station 

 publication on Corn is Bulletin 118 of the South Dakota State College 

 of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Brookings, S. Dak.), it is general 

 in character and copiously illustrated. A series of well illustrated 



