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desiring to become agricultural chemists in experiment stations and problems of 

 station organization are also discussed, the author recommending that all control 

 work be separated from the experiment station. 



Popular agricultural instruction and its methods, P. De Vtjtst (Vie Artr. 

 et Rurale, 3 {1914), No. 24, pp. 656-658). — The author discusses the object of the 

 popularization of agricultural science, general and professional agricultural 

 instruction and the influence of the former, and methods of popularizing agricul- 

 tural instruction. 



A plan for the introduction of the teaching of elementary agriculture 

 {Trenton, N. J.: Dcpt. Pub. Instr., 1914, 2. cd. rev., pp. 19). — This is a revised 

 edition of the bulletin previously noted (E. S. R., 28, p. 598). Suggestions for 

 rating the agricultural work of schools adopting this plan, estimating credits, 

 iind examinations in elementary agriculture have been added. 



School and home exercises in elementary agriculture, B. M. Davis {Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, 1914, pp. 96, figs. 12). — This loose-leaf manual is an extension and 

 revision of a series of exercises on The Soil and its Relation to Plants, previously 

 noted (E. S. R., 19, p. 390), and is intended as a supplement to a text-book. 

 Each exercise consists of an explanation and directions for carrying out a 

 project or problem by the pupil, together with a brief statement of familiar 

 facts and practices which the observed results help to explain, and a list of 

 references to literature on the subject. 



Suggestions for teaching household arts and agriculture {Atlanta, Oa.: 

 Dept. Ed., 1913, pp. 67, figs. 29). — Directions are given for making a hotbed and 

 children's home gardens, corn club work, housekeeping and sanitation in the 

 rural school, and suggestions as to where, what, why, and how cooking should 

 be taught in rural schools, serving, canning and preserving, sewing, darning, 

 patching, and manual training. 



A plan for the development of home economics along the line of practical 

 education, Cornelia Palmek (Timely Helps for Farmers [Col. Agr. Univ. Me.}, 

 7 (1914), /V'o. 10, pp. 77-84; Rural Educator, 4 (1914), No. 3, pp. 54-56).— A 

 general scheme of home economics education from kindergarten to university 

 is suggested as well as some of the possibilities of home economics training in 

 schools. 



Field crop production, G. Livingston (New York, 1914, pp. XIX +424, figs. 

 135). — This book is intended for use in agricultural schools and in elementary 

 coui'ses in colleges, but in no sense as a complete or exhaustive treatise on the 

 subject such as would be desired for regular college courses in field crops. It 

 describes the various field crops, discusses their history, types, uses, production, 

 cultural methods, diseases and insect enemies, etc., and includes a chapter each 

 on crop rotation and on the marketing of grain. A brief list of references, a 

 list of the agricultural experiment stations in this country, a table showing the 

 composition of field crops, and review questions are appended. 



Corn growing (N. J. Dept. Pub. Instr., El. Agr. Leaflet 3, rev. (1914), pp. 

 23). — This is a revised edition of the leaflet previously noted (E. S. R., 28, p. 

 598), in which many additions, including references to books and bulletins, sug- 

 gestions to teachers, etc., have been made. 



Papers set at the examinations in horticulture, 1893 to 1913 (London: Roy. 

 Hort. 80c., 1913, pp. 33). — This publication contains lists of the examination 

 questions for the years 1893-1913, inclusive, for the general, school teachers', and 

 public parks examinations in horticulture. 



The beginner's garden book, A. French (New York, 1914, pp. 'VIII-{-402, 

 figs. 211). — This text-book for the use of upper grammar grades with beginners 

 in gardening is arranged in four sections, namely, autumn work, winter work, 



