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the varyiug number of grades in rurnl schools. Thus a school or room of 

 3 grades would repeat its agricultural course once in 3 years. The " develop- 

 ment method " is advised in the treatment of each topic of instruction so as 

 to relate the study as closely as ijossible to the pupil's individual knowledge 

 and interest. 



Some means of awakening and maintaining an interest in agricultural 

 education, E. E. BALcoiiB (Addresses and Proc. Nat. Ed. Assoc, 47 (liJfJ'J), pp. 

 959-i)6.'f). — A paper filled with concrete illustrations of means and methods 

 of teaching elementary agriculture and domestic science in correlation with 

 other school work. 



The opportunity of the agricultural college library, Mary G. Lacy (/So. 

 Atlantic Quart., 9 {1910), No. 1, pp. 78-8^).— The author holds that one of 

 the most important functions of the agricultural college liUrary is to dis- 

 seminate information concerning the • nature of its classified permanent and 

 periodical literature on agriculture, manual training, domestic science, and 

 kindred subjects. It is stated that at present the aggregate mailing list of 

 all the State experiment stations is but 500,000. or only 5 per cent of the total 

 number of families living in agricultural districts. The remedy suggested is 

 the development of a classified mailing list in the interest of the various in- 

 dustries peculiar to the sections of each State. 



The agronomic chart and its popular use, O". Steinex {Mitt. Deut. Landxo. 

 Gesell., 25 {1910), No. 1, pp. 3-5). — The more general use of such charts in 

 the schools is advocated. 



Pruning, W. Paddock {Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State Univ.], 5 {1909), No. 

 3, pp. -'/-H, fig^- 15). — Reasons and directions for pruning young and old trees 

 are given in a form suitable for study in public schools. 



Composition, nutritive and manurial values of farm foods {Leeds, 1909, 

 Folder). — This is a table issued by the University of Leeds, and the Yorkshire 

 Council for Agricultural Education, and approved by the Agricultural Education 

 Association as suitable for the purpose of teaching. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-eighth Annual Report of Ohio Station, 1909 (Ohio Sta. Bui. 205. 

 pp. XXVIII, pi. 1). — This contains an announcement concerning the work of 

 the station, the organization list, a report of the board of control, a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, and a report of the director 

 summarizing the work of the station during the year. 



Summary of experiment station work, E. A. Bryan ( Washington Sta. Popu- 

 lar Bui. 20, pp. 7). — A reprint from the report of the station for 1907 previously 

 noted (E. S. R., 22, p. 94). 



Press bulletins {Ohio Sta. Bui. 205, pp. 298-306). — Reprints of press bulle- 

 tins on the following subjects : The wheat jointworm : lime and clover : treating 

 seed wheat to prevent stinking smut ; how to combat the wheat jointworm : 

 late blight and rot fungus of potatoes; Alaska wheat; selection of seed corn: 

 fire prevention and control; bark beetles or bark borers: the wheat jointworm: 

 and a field meeting at the experiment station. 



Yearbook of agriculture {Jahresber. Landw., 23 {1908), pp. XXXIl+564). — 

 This volume contains numerous abstracts of articles on plant and animal pro- 

 duction, agricultural machines, agricultural economics, and allied topics. 



