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for contests and club work and many other thinii^s. The 

 book is a most suggestive one and shoukl prove highly useful 

 though it may not be found adapted for school use in its 

 entirety. It contains 350 pages and 160 illustrations and is 

 one of the Lippincott Farm Manuals issued under the editor- 

 ship of Prof. Davis. It is published by the J. B. Lippincott 

 Company, Philadelphia. 



The teaching of agriculture has always been somewhat 

 hampered by the lack of schemes for the laboratory side of 

 the work. It is not always possible to carry on the usual 

 operations of the farm in connection with school work and 

 in such cases "Agricultural Experiments and Home Projects" 

 by Henry J. Waters and Joseph D. Elliff, issued by Ginn & 

 Company, should prove very useful. The book, or manual, 

 consists of about a hundred exercises with blanks to be filled 

 out, ([uestions to be answered, tables to be made or other data 

 secured, all of which is indicated in the accompanying text. 

 The exercises deal with plants, animals and the soil and offer 

 opportunities for much useful work. In the hands of a good 

 teacher the book should prove of great value, th(uigh there is 

 perhaps a tendency to call for more book work and less actual 

 laboratory work than is desirable. Each exercise is accom- 

 panied by numerous references to text-books and bulletins 

 making it easy for the student to continue investigation in 

 any line of work that appeals to him. 



