196 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



secoudarj- and elementary schools in which agriculture is taught. The data 

 concerning the secondary schools includes recent legislation in some of the 

 States and outlines of several high-school courses of study. 

 Statistics of land-grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations, 



1908, Marie T. Spethmann {U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Rpt. 1908, pp. 

 191-230). — A compilation from official sources of general statistics, courses of 

 study, attendance, value of funds and equipment, revenues, and additions to 

 equipment of the land-grant colleges, and of the lines of work, revenues, and 

 additions to equipment of the agricultural experiment stations in the United 

 States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908. 



The farmers' institutes in the United States, 1908, J. Hamilton (U. 8. 

 Dcpt. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Rpt. 1908, pp. 289-335).— This is the annual report 

 of the Farmers' Institute Specialist of this OfBee concerning the work of the 

 Office in promoting farmers' institutes and the development of the farmers' 

 institute movement in the different States and Territories. Data ai*e also in- 

 cluded concerning college extension work, movable schools of agriculture, a 

 winter agricultural school, farm clubs, demonstration fields, and other educa- 

 tional activities closely related to farmers" institute work. 



The agricultural and industrial educational movement in the South, G. B. 

 Cook (Proc. Conf. Ed. South, 12 (1909), pp. 69-8^).— A brief survey of some 

 of the features of general industrial advancement in the South is followed by 

 some general considerations concerning the progress in agricultural education 

 and more particularly by references to recent features of progress in the 

 Southern States. 



Education and economic development, A. C. Ellis (Proc. Conf. Ed. SoutJi, 

 12 (1909), pp. 171-186). — In this address the author gives numerous illustra- 

 tions of the economic development resulting largely from the instruction given 

 in the agricultural and mechanical colleges, such for example as recent develop- 

 ments in selecting and gi-owing corn, the successful combating of ravages of the 

 white scale in California, and the fight against the cotton boll weevil and the 

 Texas fever tick. He also refers to other economic developments in the fields of 

 mining, medicine, and economics. 



School of Domestic Economy and Education of the Province of Bergamo, 

 S. Balp (Bol. Min. Agr., Indus, e Com. [Rome], 8 (1909), Ser. C, No. 7, pp. 

 13-38). — A report, made at the inauguration of the school on August 2, 1909, 

 at Parma, on the origin, development, regulations, and scope of the school, in- 

 cluding the course of study. The instruction includes (1) moral education, (2) 

 elements of science, and (3) practical instruction in all matters relating to 

 the home. 



Corn Day annual for the public schools of Illinois, F. G. Blair (Dept. Pub. 

 Instr. [III.], Circ. 38, pp. 43, figs. 20). — This circular is intended to awaken and 

 direct still further the interest of Illinois school boys and girls in the study 

 and growing of corn, with special reference to the observance of " Corn Day." 

 It includes a careful study of the ear, kernel, growing plant, soil, water, and 

 tillage conditions necessary to its success, and the diseases and insects which 

 attack it. Osmosis, capillarity, transpiration, soil temperature, fertilizers, 

 crop rotation, corn products and their food values, and seed testing are some 

 of the additional topics incidentally considered. 



What one class in agronomy did, W. N. Clute (School Sci. and Math., 9 

 (1909), pp. 731-735). — An account is given of one season's work in class room 

 and gardens at the Joliet (111.) Township High School. 



The fly-aways and other seed travelers, F. M. Fultz (Bloomington. III., 



1909, pp. 186, figs. 9'/). — This i& a nature study book for children. The story 

 of seed dispersal is truthfully told but in language simple enough for the five- 



