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many, Austria, and the Netherlands, and more detailed information on the or- 

 ganization and development of these schools in France, together with detailed 

 accounts of the organization, budget, employment of time, suhject matter, etc., 

 of individual winter schools located in lyceums, colleges, professional schools, etc. 



Report of the work of the school gardening association in 1909 and 1910 

 {Bcr. For. Skolchav. Virks. [Denmark], 1909-1910, j)i). 3S, mai) 1). — This report 

 contains a brief summary of the school-garden work in Denmark in 1909 and 

 1910, followed by accounts of the work of individual gardens, statements of 

 receipts and. expenditures of the association for 1909 and 1910, and a map show- 

 ing the location of the school gardens, of which there were 55 in the spring 

 of 1911. 



Manual of agriculture for the public schools, State of Vermont, G. L. 

 Green, L. C. Cook, and T. J. Abbott (Monipelier: Dcpt. Ed., 1911, pp. 16). — 

 This manual consists of elementary exercises which require only simple appa- 

 ratus for their performance, with explanations and observations. The general 

 outline of the exercises includes the object, materials, directions, observations, 

 conclusions, and references. The subjects treated are soils, plant life, plant 

 growth, field crops, forestry, animal life, and score cards for potatoes, vegetables, 

 cheese, butter, and dairy cattle. A list of a few desirable books is given at the 

 close of the manual. 



Agricultural geography in the high-school course, P. Hillmann (Fiihling's 

 Landiv. Ztg., 60 {1911), No. 9, pp. 289-2911 ) .—This article discusses the need 

 of instruction in agricultural geography in high schools; the subjects it should 

 include, such as (1) the most important natural fundamentals — climate, the 

 agricultural value of a country with reference to its natural vegetation and 

 soils, and (2) the economic fundamentals — commercial conditions, labor, and 

 credit ; several methods of gi'ouping this subject matter for purposes of in- 

 struction ; and suggestions concerning literature. 



Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual convention of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, held at "Washing- 

 ton, D. C, November 16-18, 1910, edited by J. L. Hills {Proc. Assoc. Amer. 

 Agr. Cols, and Expt. Stas., 2k (1910), pp. 218). — ^An account of this convention 

 has been given (E. S. R., 24, p. 108). 



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Twentieth Annual Report of North Dakota Station, 1909 (North Dakota 

 Sta. Rpt. 1909, pp. 99, figs. 2). — This contains the organization list, a brief re- 

 port by the director, departmental reports, of which the experimental work is 

 for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue, and a financial statement 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900. 



Twenty-first Annual Report of North Dakota Station, 1910 {North Da- 

 kota Sta. Rpt. 1910, pp. 59). — Data similar to the above ai*e reported for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1910. 



Experiment Station Work, LXIV (U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Farmers' Bui. .'/.57, pp. 

 2.'{, fig. 1). — This number contains articles on the following subjects: Low-grade 

 fertilizers, Japanese cane for forage, fighting the boll weevil by clean farming 

 methods, hastening maturity of cotton with fertilizers, the Scuppernong as a 

 profitable crop, early spring lambs in the South, the production of sanitary 

 milk, lacto — a new and healthful frozen dairy product — and a reenforced brick 

 silo. 



