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Profitable Dairying. By C. L. Peek. 



Published as a practical guide to successful dairy management and includes chap- 

 ters devoted to the physiology of milk secretion, dairy breeds, feeding cows, milking, 

 care of milk, butter making, and similar topics. 



Modern Methods of Testing Milk and Milk Products. By L. L. Van 

 Slyke. 



A book prepared for the use of dairy students, butter makers, cheese makers, milk 

 inspectors, etc., rather than for the chemist, and the methods described are such as 

 would not necessarily require previous chemical training for their successful operation. 



Diseases of Swine. By R. A. Craig. 



This is a volume in which an attempt has been made to bring together the known 

 facts relating to the common diseases of pigs, particular attention being given to the 

 serious infectious and parasitic diseases. 



The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods. By A. L. Winton. 



This summarizes the results of a large number of original investigations and is 

 designed for the use of food analysts, agricultural chemists, pharmacists, and others 

 engaged in the examination of foods. 



A Complete Course in Canning, published by The Trade, Baltimore. 



A book giving detailed formulas for the canning and preserving of all the vege- 

 tables, meats, fruits, fish, and soups commonly canned, as well as data for making jams, 

 jellies, mince-meats, pie filler, spice mixtures, etc. 



Primer of Irrigation. By D. H. Anderson. 



This is a volume intended to aid those who are beginners in irrigation farming. 



Sanitation of a Country House. By H. B. Bashore. 



A short nontechnical treatise on the sanitation of the American country home. 



How to Choose a Farm. By T. F. Hunt. 



Deals with the selection, arrangement, and management of a farm from the stand- 

 point of making a profit. 



Two text-books on Farm Accounts have been published, one by 

 H. L. Steiner, of Toledo, Ohio ; and one by J. A. Vye, of the Minnesota 

 College of Agriculture. 



The literature of nature study and elementary agriculture has 

 also been augmented considerably. The New York State education 

 department has published a course of study and syllabus for ele- 

 mentary schools which contains an outline for nature study in the 

 first six years of the elementary course and agriculture in the remain- 

 ing two years. The State superintendent of public schools in Wis- 

 consin has issued a manual for the common schools of that State 

 which contains an outline course in elementary agriculture. A simi- 

 lar course for the common schools of South Dakota has been published, 

 also a course in nature study for North Carolina schools. 



A guide for school and home gardens has been published under the 

 title of "Hints and Helps for Young Gardeners," by H. D. Hemen- 

 way, formerly director of the Hartford School of Horticulture. 



