MISCELLANEOUS. 299 



Some of the subjects discussed are: (1) Agricultural Education in the Public 

 Schools, by W. H. French, (2) The Schools from the Farmers' Standpoint, by 

 W. F. Taylor, (3) Women's Share in Agriculture, by Martha Van Rensselaer, 

 (4) Art in the Home, by V. T. Wilson, and (5) Changing Educational Ideals, 

 by Maude Gilchrist. 



Michigan state farmers' institutes, 1910-11, L. R. Taft (Mich. Bd. Agr., 

 Inst. Bui. 17, 1911, pp. 263, figs. 37). — A summary of the work done through 

 the year is given as well as a brief report of the method of conducting the 

 regular county institutes and the institute trains. Some of the papers pre- 

 sented at the round-up institute are as follows: (1) Heating of Residences, by 

 G. W. Bissell, (2) Better Boys and Girls on the Farm, by W. A. McKeever, 

 (3) Some Practical Aspects of Race Breeding, by W. A. McKeever, (4) Train- 

 ing Teachers for Agricultural Extension Work, by John Hamilton, and (5) 

 Business Methods on the Farm, by Ida L. Chittenden. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-ninth Annual Report of New York State Station, 1910 (New 

 York t<t(ttc Sta. Rpt. 1910, pp. 607, pis. 51, figs. S, charts 2). — This contains the 

 organization list of the station, a financial statement for the federal funds for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1010, and for the state funds for the fiscal year 

 ended September 30, 1910, reprints of Bulletins 322, 323, 326-332 and Techni- 

 cal Bulletins 1.^17, all of which have been previously noted, and of Circulars 

 13-15, noted elsewhere in this issue, a list of the periodicals received by the 

 station, and meteorological observations noted on page 214 of this issue. 



Thirtieth Annual Report of Ohio Station, 1911 (Ohio Sta. Bui. 230, pp. 

 XXVII, fig. 1). — This contains the organization list, a report of the board of 

 control, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, and a 

 report of the director summarizing the work of the station during the year. 



Press bulletins (Ohio Sta. Bui. 230, pp. 356-362). — Reprints of press bulletins 

 on the following subjects: The station exhibit at the county fairs; the Fusarium 

 blight or wilt of potatoes; sowing wheat late in the fall; treating seed wheat 

 for smut; small tools on the farm; mice injury to forest trees; testing seed 

 corn ; and preventing onion smut. 



Experiment Station Work, LXVI (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Farmers^ Bui. 469, pp. 

 ^■'h flff'^- 9). — This number contains articles on the following subjects: Perma- 

 nent lawns in the South, fertilizing asparagus, turnips for sheep, loss of winter- 

 fed lambs, cost of market milk, propagation of starters for butter maldng and 

 cheese making, and the plastered silo. 



