MISCELLANEOUS. 95 



School farming' in Bukidnon, L. S. Thomas {Philippine Agr. Rev. [English 

 Ed.], 4 {1911), No. 7, pp. 3Jf9-35.5).— This is an account of the garden work 

 of the pupils in the Bukidnon schools and of the results obtained with the 

 various natiA'e and foreign crops grown. 



Agricultural instruction in the army, Horny {Ztschr. AgrarpolitiJc, 9 

 {1911), No. 8, pp. 327-331). — This is an account of the organization and meth- 

 ods of instruction in agriculture for soldiers under the jurisdiction of the 

 Wiesbaden Chamber of Agriculture. 



This instruction was introduced experimentally into the garrisons of the dis- 

 trict in the winter of 1909-10. Ten lectures were delivered during each of the 

 past two winters. The instruction was usually given weekly from 4 to 7 p. m. 

 and consisted of tbe purely agricultural subjects such as crop and plant pro- 

 duction, animal husbandry, farm management, combating weeds and insect 

 enemies, as well as related subjects such as fruit growing, care of health, and 

 administration of the law. In 1909-10 there were 354 soldiers in attendance on 

 this course, and in the past winter, 298. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty- third Annual Report of Massachusetts Station, 1910 {Massachu- 

 setts Sta. Rpt. 1910, pts. 1, pp. 356, pis. 8, figs. 13; 2, pp. 9-5, fig. i).— Part 1 of 

 this report contains the organization list, a report of the director, a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910. reports of heads of depart- 

 ments, and numerous special articles, among them a tribute by Dr. J. B. Lindsey 

 to the late Dr. C. A. Goessmann. Part 2, which is the portion designed for 

 general distribution, consists of papers of a popular nature, based on the 

 results of the observations and experiments of the station, and of a brief sum- 

 mary by the director of the more important conclusions from these articles. 

 The experimental work reported in each part of the report is for the most part 

 abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Report of the Royal Agricultural-Chemical Experiment Station at Vienna, 

 1910, F. W. Dafert and K. Kornauth {Ber. K. Landw. Chem. Vers. Stat. 

 Wien; 1910, pp. 120). — This report deals principally with oflicial chemical-tech- 

 nological investigations, viticulture, dairying, horticulture, moor culture and 

 peat valuation, fish culture, the distribution of Loeffler's mouse typhoid and 

 rat bacillus cultures, and plant protection. 



Monthly Bulletin of the Department Library, August and September, 1911 

 {V. S. Dcpt. Agr., Library Mo. Bui, 2 {1911), Nos. 8. pp. 209-234; 9, pp. 237- 

 260). — These numbers contain data for August and September, 1911, respec- 

 tively, as to the accessions to the Library of this Department and the additions 

 to the list of periodicals currently received. 



Experiment Station Work, LXV (t/. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 465, pp. 

 24, figs. 8). — This number contains articles upon the following subjects: Cost 

 of available nitrogen, management of marsh soils, a weeder harrow for dry 

 farms, the V-shaped cotton-stalk cutter, storage for root crops, a danger In 

 feeding root crops to breeding animals, sanitary care of swine in the South, 

 individuality of the cow as a factor m economic milk production, and hatching 

 and rearing turkeys bj' artificial methods. 



