Book Reviews 



Farm Animals, Hunt, Thomas F., and Burkett, Charles W. 



Orange Judd Company, 19 14. Pp. ix + 534. Price $1.50. 



The tendency to differentiate the course in Agriculture so as to 

 include separate courses in such phases of the subject as Farm 

 Crops and Soils, Farm Animals, and Farm Mechanics, has brought 

 forth several text books which recognize this differentiation. 

 Probably no more comprehensive single volume treatment has 

 been presented than this one by Hunt and Burkett. It includes: 

 a brief statement of the great groups of animals and domestica- 

 tion of animals (three chapters) ; the significance of animal food 

 and animal feeding, digestion, and rations (six chapters); horses, 

 mules, beef and dairy cattle, sheep, hogs and goats (nineteen 

 chapters); a chapter on bees; six chapters on poultry; four 

 chapters on diseases and injuries of farm animals ; one on butchery 

 and one on marketing. The book presents an immense quantity 

 of useful information which should prove helpful to those who aie 

 teaching a course which deals with farm animals. 



Otis W. Caldwell. 



Agriculture and Life, Cromwell, Arthur D., edited by Davis, 

 Kary C. J. B. Lippincott Company, 19 15. Pp. x + 369. 

 It is not the purpose of the author of this book to present a 

 text book for high school pupils, but to help the teacher of agri- 

 culture. After considering the educational aims of agricultural 

 teaching, the author discusses some of the more important agri- 

 cultural topics with the intent of making the educational ends of 

 each topic clear, and of bringing together a fund of information 

 which should help the teacher whose agricultural knowledge is 

 fairly well limited to the regular text book on the subject. For 

 example, in a chapter on "Pets and Home Projects" a statement 

 is made of why the motor-minded pupil, probably all pupils for 

 that matter, should be assured an opportunity of r olio wing some 

 project in which he uses his hands, muscles, eyes and ears, as well 

 as his reasoning powers. Rural pupils are likely to have a good 

 deal of opportunity to use their whole bodies in carrying out 

 assigned projects, but agricultural education may easily become 

 so formalized that it may eliminate some of its most fundamentally 

 educative elements. Not only the work of the farm, but its play — 



