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lime, magnesia, sand, humus, and clay, of estimating the plant food values of 

 commercial and farm fertilizers, and of analyzing milk, feeds, oils, and other 

 agricultural products. 



Planting- and cultivating- corn, D. W. Working (W. Va. School Agr., 1 

 {1911), No. 6, pp. 90-110, figs. 8). — Eight lessons are outlined on the planting 

 and cultiyating of corn. Each lesson is accompanied by a laboratory exercise 

 and one or more references to helpful literature. 



Suggested course of study in nature-study-agriculture for the one-room, 

 rural schools of Illinois (School News and Pract. Ed., 2J/ (1911), No. 10, pp. 

 1/45-452). — This course was prepared by a committee appointed for the purpose 

 at the first nature-study-agriculture conference at the University of Illinois, in 

 March, 1910. It is arranged by months for the 8 j^ears of the elementary 

 school. 



School and home gardening, S. C. Kelleher and N. H. Foreman ([Philip- 

 pine] Bur. Ed. Dill. 31, 1910, pp. 1/5, figs. 8, pis. i//). — Gardening, as outlined in 

 this bulletin, is prescribed for all elementary schools in the Islands. The 

 authors discuss the objects of school gardening, the divisions of the work 

 into school and home gardens, plant nurseries, and flovi^er and ornamental plant 

 culture, give detailed instructions for selecting a site, fencing, planting, and 

 platting the entire garden, preparing the soil, planning and ma])ping the pupil's 

 plat, choosing plants and seeds, keeping a record, use and care of tools, trans- 

 planting, time of planting, care of plants, disposition of products, and the 

 germinating bed, directions for growing some of the common garden vegetables, 

 procuring seed for the next crop, keeping seeds until planting time, for doing 

 work at barrio schools, decorative gardening, and tree planting. A plan of an 

 individual garden is suggested, and a report on school -garden work in Union 

 Province including the object, local interest, and progress of gardening in the 

 province, together with the details of the supervisor's method of conducting 

 gardening for primary schools, is given. 



Arbor day, R. H. Schauffler (Netv York, 1909, pp. XXIX +360) .—This is 

 a collection of essays and other articles, exercises, and poems concerning Arbor 

 Day and its history, observance, and significance, together with similar contri- 

 butions on spring, trees, flowers, and conservation. 



Equipment for teaching domestic science, Helen Kinne (New York: 

 Teachers Col., 1910, pp. 100, pi. 1, figs. 63). — The author discusses the problems 

 that are met in planning a domestic science equipment for cookery, table setting 

 and service, housework, laundering and home nursing, suggests practical solu- 

 tions that have been worked out through experience, and gives a description of 

 Vvhat is done in some of the schools and colleges of this country. A chapter 

 each is devoted to the planning for rooms in a new building and the refitting of 

 rooms used for other purposes, the cooking laboratory, the dining room, laundry 

 and equipment for home nursing, the purchase and care of equipment, the total 

 cost of equipment, the cost of maintenance, and the household arts building, 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. 



Federal legislation, regulations, and rulings affecting agricultural col- 

 leges and experiment stations (U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Circ. Ill, 

 pp. 2.^).— This is a revision of Circular 68 (E. S. R., IS, p. 688), including state- 

 ments concerning the classification of station accounts and the requirements of 

 exiieriment station accounting. 



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Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 1909 

 (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. Anlm. Indus. Rpt. 1909, pp. 407, pis. 15, figs. iO).— This 



