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have recently been received by this Office from the State departments 

 of education in (Teor<i:ia, Indiana, Maine, Michi<>jan, Missouri, Ne- 

 braska, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and New York. The work 

 done by the agricultural colle<i^es in this direction has already been 

 referred to (p. 8)50). In the pro<>;rammes for courses of study for the 

 public schools in Indiana, Missouri, and New Hampshire outlines of 

 elementary courses in agricidture are t^iv'en. 



Nature Study Bulletin No. 1 of the New York State department of 

 agriculture, entitled " Cornell Nature Study Leaflets," includes re- 

 prints of 80 leaflets originally published by the College of Agriculture 

 of Cornell University between 189G and 1904. 



Bulletin No. 1 of the State Normal School at Chico, Cal., is a 

 manual for teachers on school gardens for California schools, by 

 B. M. Davis. In addition to definite instructions for the management 

 of school gardens this bulletin contains a somewhat extended list of 

 reference books and bulletins on garden making, agriculture, nature 

 study, etc., for a school library. 



A book entitled ""Agriculture through the Laboratory and School 

 Garden," by Miss C. K. Jackson and Mrs. L. S. Dougherty, instructors 

 in the State normal school at Kirksville, Mo., has recently been pub- 

 lished. This is a manual and text-book of elementary agriculture for 

 schools, prepared to meet the need for instruction in the one-year 

 course in agriculture for teachers at the Kirksville normal school. 

 It comprises chapters on the nature and formation of soils, classifica- 

 tion and physical properties of soils, soil moisture and preparation 

 of the soil, the soil as related to plants, leguminous plants, principles 

 of feeding, rotation of crops, milk and its care, propagation of plants, 

 improvement of plants, pruning of plants, enemies of plants, and 

 ornamentation of school and home grounds. Suggestions for experi- 

 ments in laboratory exercises and field work are liberally interspersed 

 throughout the book, and nearly every chapter is followed by refer- 

 ences to literature related to the subject under consideration. There 

 are also a})pended lists of general references to publications, lists of 

 agricultural experiment stations in the United States, and of pub- 

 lishing lunises whose books are mentioned in the reference lists, and a 

 glossary. 



The P^irst Book of Farming, by C. L. Goodrich, formerly instructor 

 in agriculture at the Hampton Institute, Virginia, is an elementary 

 treatise prepared after the author had had a number of years' expe- 

 rience in elementary instruction in agriculture. The first part of this 

 book is devoted to the genci-al principles underlying plant culture, 

 including discussions on the plant and the functions of the roots, 

 stems, leaves, and flowers. Several chapters are given on the soil, with 

 reference to the diliereiit kinds of soil, their uioi&ture-holding capa- 



