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year-old child to understand. Illustrations are given of the dispersal of seeds 

 by wind, water, birds, and animals, and by the voluntary action of man. 



Forestry in nature study ( U. 8. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Spec. Circ, pp. 

 JO). — This circular, prepared by the Forest Service of this Department for 

 special distribution among teachers attending the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi- 

 tion, presents an outline of a tentative course in elementary forestry for the first 

 eight grades of the conmion schools. There is also an appendix containing a 

 list of appropriate bulletins and circulars issued by this Department, and also 

 a list of 29 other publications. 



Farm forestry, A. Akerman (Athens, Ga.: Ga. Forest Assoc, 1900, pp. 2;i). — 

 This is a preliminary outline of what is to be developed into a text-book of 

 forestry for use in the schools of Georgia. It contains brief descriptions of the 

 trees of the State, suggestions for prop.igation and planting. i)rotection from 

 forest fires, and the harvesting and disposal of forest i)roducts. 



Dumb animals and how to treat them, E. K, Whitehead {Denver, 1909, pp. 

 XX+128, fif/s. Jfo). — This book is designed to give some definite teaching to 

 children concerning their duties toward domestic and other animals, and seeks 

 to supply effective motives for treating animals with justice and kindness. The 

 following topics selected from its table of contents illustrate its agricultural 

 bearing: Profit in kindness to domestic animals; feeding, watering, sheltering, 

 and exercising animals; proper harnessing and care of horses; shoeing, driving, 

 and training horses; treatment of balking; cows and other cattle; sheep and 

 hogs; chickens, ducks, geese, and other fowls; wild birds and animals; insects 

 and reptiles; and our ignorance concerning animals. 



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Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, 1908 ( IJ. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Office Expt. Stas. Rpt. 1908. pp. Jill, pis. 1',, figs. //).— This includes the usual 

 report on the work of this Office for the fiscal year ended June .30, 1908, and of 

 the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations in the United 

 States, including those of Alaska. Hawaii, and Porto Rico, an account of agri- 

 cultural conditions in tlie Island of Guam, statistics of the land-grant colleges 

 and experiment stations for 1908, and several articles and reviews abstracted 

 elsewhere in this issue. 



Annual Report of New Jersey Stations, 1908 (New Jersey Stas. Rpt. 1908, 

 pp. ^28). — This contains the organization list of the stations, a financial state- 

 ment for the State Station for the fiscal year ended Ocober 31, 1908, and for 

 the College Station for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908, and a brief report by 

 the director, together with departmental reports which are abstracted else- 

 where in this issue. A report on the inspection of feeding stuffs has been pre- 

 viously noted (E. S. R., 20, p. 69), as has also one on the inspection of Paris 

 green and lead arsenate (E. S. R., 20, p. 656). 



Experiment Station Work, LIII (U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. Sl.'i, pp. 32, 

 figs. 5). — This number contains articles on the following subjects: Inoculation 

 and lime for alfalfa, citrus culture in southern Texas, pruning rotundifolia 

 grapes, nutritive value of native hays in the arid region, Bermuda grass, short 

 V. long feeding of beef cattle, contagious abortion of cattle, preventing losses at 

 lambing time, winter lambs for the Pacific coast market, feeding work horses, 

 colony houses for poultry, food of the crow blackbird, and flour for baking 

 powder biscuits. 



Accessions to the Department Library, July-September, 1909 {U. 8. Dept. 

 Agr., Library Bui. 73, pp. 63). 



