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junior or senior years. Only the large and more general problems in farm 

 management have been discussed." 



It is expected that the text, with the exercises, problems, and references to 

 literature appended to each chapter, will make a full semester course. 



Syllabus of home economics (Baltimore, Md., 1913, rev., pp. 69). — In reprint- 

 ing this syllabus (E. S. R., 29, p. 496), advantage has been taken of the oppor- 

 tunity to make a few textual corrections and to revise and amplify the section 

 on Aims and Results, the concluding subdivision of Household and Institution 

 Management. 



School gardens: General recommendations and suggestions for conduct- 

 ing school gardens, A. Hosking (West of Scot. Agr. Col. Bid. 61 (1913), pp. 

 42-79, figs. 11). — This bulletin contains the code of regulations re school gardens 

 of the Scotch education department, regulations and suggestions proposed by the 

 governors of the West of Scotland Agricultural College, schemes of work, 

 pupils' notebooks, suggestions for autumn and winter work, data on the cost 

 of establishing school gardens, suggested syllabuses of instruction in the ele- 

 mentary principles of horticulture and in the operations and practice of horti- 

 culture, a list of common trees and shrubs, and notes on meteorology. 



Illinois Arbor and Bird Days, compiled by H. T. Swift ([Dept. Pub. Instr. 

 [III.] Circ. 77 (1914), PP- 71, figs. 52). — This is a compilation of special articles 

 including The Illinois Way of Foundation Planting, by W. Miller and F. A. 

 Aust; What Our Parents Saw on the Prairies; Practical Points About Attract- 

 ing Birds, by E. H. Forbush ; The Jenny Wren Bungalow, by Rebecca H. Kauff- 

 man ; economic notes on a number of birds, nature poems, and suggestions for 

 the observation of Bird Day. 



Arbor and Bird Day manual for West Virginia schools, M. J. Abbey (W. 

 Va. School Agr., 4 (1914), No. 3, pp. 58, figs. 28).— Programs, directions for 

 studying trees and birds, lessons on trees and birds, and general suggestions are 

 given for the observation of Arbor and Bird Day. 



Preparation of exhibits for fairs and contests, G. E. Thompson (Kansas 

 Sta. Circ. 36 (1914), PP- 7, figs. 8). — Suggestions are offered for preparing ex- 

 hibits of grain, corn, sorghums, grasses, and millets for fairs and contests. 



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Annual Report of Guam Station, 1913 (Guam Sta. Rpt. 1913, pp. 24, pis. 

 4, figs. 6). — This contains a summary of investigations by the special agent in 

 charge, for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Twenty-seventh Annual Report of Nebraska Station, 1913 (Nebraska Sta. 

 Rpt. 1913, pp. XXIV). — This contains the organization list, a review of the 

 work and publications of the year, and a financial statement as to the federal 

 funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913, and as to the remaining funds for 

 the fiscal year ended July 31, 1913. The experimental work reported is for the 

 most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



The county experiment farm; its function, selection, and management, 

 C. E. Thorne (Ohio Sta. Circ. 145 (1914), pp. 99-118).— This contains an ac- 

 count of the work of the station, particularly with reference to its activities 

 through county agents and county experiment farms, an explanation of the 

 methods to be followed in securing a county experiment farm, and the text of 

 the county experiment farm law as amended by the last general assembly. 



