MISCELLANEOUS. 595 



ITocosR of ensiling corn and an explanation of the chemical changes that take 

 l)lace in silage. 



Organization lists of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations 

 in the United States, Mary A. Agnew (U. .S'. Dept. Agr., Office Exi>t. Stas. Bui. 

 22^, pp. 93). 



Organization, work, and publications of the Agricultural Education 

 Service {U. S. Dcpt. Ayr., Office E.xi>t. Stas. Circ. 93. pp. 15). — This circular 

 outlines the nature of the educational woi-k of this Dv^partment as conducted 

 through this Office, the legal basis for this work, its subdivisions and staffs. 

 and includes a descriptive list of the publications which have been issued by 

 this Office on collegiate, secondary and elementary agricultural instruction, 

 farmers' institutes, and extension work. 



A teacher's professional library: Classified list of one hundred titles 

 {Bur. of Ed. [U. S.] Bui. 8, 1909, pp. /'/).— The books listed, classified partly 

 by subjects and partly by grades of instruction, deal mainly with the history 

 and theory of education, the school curriculum, and school organization and 

 administration. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Experiment Station Work, LV (U. S. Dcpt. Arir., Farmers' Bui. 384, PP- 32, 

 figs. 3). — This number contains articles on the following subjects: Poultry 

 manure, early onions in the Southwest, oleander poisoning of live stock, feeding 

 fermented cotton-seed meal to hogs, wintering farm work horses, alfalfa meal 

 as a feeding stuff, mangels for milch cows, records of dairy herds, skim-milk 

 buttermilk, whipped cream, farm butter making, Camembert cheese making in 

 the United States, and cement and concrete fence posts. 



List of periodicals currently received in the Library of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture (U. S. Dept. Agr., Library Bui. 75, pp. 72). — This list, 

 which contains 1,575 titles, arranged both a]i)habetically and classified by sub- 

 jects, " does not include annual reports and other serial publications appearing 

 as annual volumes, nor does it include series of bulletins, each number of which 

 is a monograph, such as the publications of the state exi)eriment stations. The 

 aim has been to include only those serials which appear frequently and which 

 are usually considered as periodicals." 



Laws of Maine relating to agriculture (Bui. [Maine] Dept. Agr., 8 (1909), 

 No. Jf, pp. 171-238). — This is a compilation of the principal laws of the State 

 relating to agriculture, arranged by sul)jects and with a detailed index. 



Laws relating to agriculture now in force in Oklahoma (Quart. Rpt. Okla. 

 Bd. Agr. 1909. June 30. pp. l.iO). — This is a digest of the laws pertaining to 

 agriculture now in force in Oklahoma. 



Laws of Vermont relating to agriculture and forestry (Ann. Rpt. Comr. 

 Agr. Vt., 1 (1909), pp. 10-38). — This is a compilation of the laws of Vermont 

 relating to agriculture and forestry. 



Illustrated dictionary of agriculture (Illustriertes Landwirtsehafts-Le.Hkon. 

 Berlin, 1910, Jf. ed., pp. IV+987, figs. 60+1250).— This contains definitions of 

 agricultural terms, brief descrii)tions and in many cases illustrations of prac- 

 tices pertaining to agriculture, brief biographical notes of teachers, investi- 

 gators, and others notable in agricultural work, and similar data. 



