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trips, lessons on birds, seed testing, and weed seed studies, give attention to 

 home sanitation. 



Farm boys and girls, W. A. McKeever (Neio York, 1912, pp. XVIII +326. 

 pis. 32).— This booli belongs to the Rural Science Series, edited by L. H. Bailey, 

 and was prepared both for the rural parents and the many persons who are 

 interested in carrying forward the rural work discussed in the several chapters. 



The first 2 chapters constitute an outline of some of the fundamental prin- 

 ciples of child development. Among the subjects subsequently discussed are 

 the transformation of the rural school, the farm boy's choice of a vocation, the 

 kind of schooling the country boy and girl should have, social training for farm 

 boys and girls, and juvenile literature in the farm home. References are given 

 at the close of the chapters suitable for more extended discussions. 



The g-arden primer, Grace Tabor (New York, 1911, rev. and enl. ed., pi>. 

 IG.'f, pis. 30, figs. 6).— This volume presents only the elementary priciples of 

 gardening. Some of its features are the gardener's calendar for each month in 

 the year, a spraying table covering both the orchard and garden, a detailed 

 vegetable planting table, and tables giving particulars concerning plants for 

 rocky, wet, shady, and dry, arid places, and the best annuals and perennials. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-fourth Annual Eeport of Indiana Station, 1911 (Indiana yS7a. 

 Rj^t. 1911, pp. 59). — This contains the organization list, reports of the director 

 and heads of departments, of which portions of those of the animal husband- 

 man, dairy husbandman, and veterinarian are abstracted elsewhere in this issue, 

 and the financial statement for the federal and miscellaneous funds for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, and for the state funds for the fiscal year ended 

 September 30, 1911. 



Thirty-fourth Annual Report of North Carolina Station, 1911 (North 

 Carolina 8ta. Rpt. 1911, pp. 265, figs. 66). — This contains the organization list, 

 reports of the director and heads of departments, the experimental work of 

 which is for the most part abstraetetl elsewhere in this issue, a financial state- 

 ment for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, numerous special ai'ticles ab- 

 stracted elsewhere in this issue, and reprints of Press Bulletins 22, Fse of Lime 

 on the Farm, and 23, How to Suppress House Flies, find of Bulletins 209-216, 

 previously noted. 



Work of the agricultural experiment station for 1910-11, W. Frear 

 (Pennsylvania 8ta. Bui. 113, pp. 3-22). — This is a brief summary of the prin- 

 cipal lines of work of the Pennsylvania Station for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1911. 



Index to legislative history of acts of Congress involving the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, O. H. Gates (U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Office 

 Solicitor, Index to Acts Cong. Involving Dept. Agr., 1912, pp. 53).— This index 

 includes references to the Congressional Record and committee reports on legis- 

 lative acts through the Sixty-first Congress, and the annual appropriation acts 

 beginning with that for the fiscal year 1901. A detailed topical index is 

 appended. 



Monthly Sulletin of the Department Library, December, 1911, and 

 January, 1912 (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Library Mo. Bui, 2 (1911), No. 12, pp. 

 3Jfl-366; 8 (1912), No. 1, pp. 3-32). — ^These numbers contain data for December, 

 1911, and January, 1912, resi)ectively, as to the accessions to the Library of this 

 Department and the additions to the list of periodicals currently received. 



