196 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



Arbor Day and Bird Day, suggestions for teacliers and pupils, programs, and 

 lessons, poems, and music on trees, flowers, and birds. 



Report of committee on courses of study in agriculture, E. C. Bishop 

 (Addresses and Proc. Nat. Ed. Assoc, Ji9 (19JI), pp. 1138-1152). — This report, 

 submitted to the National Education Association, San Francisco, Cal., July 

 8-14, 1911, makes general inquiries into the scope of agricultural education and 

 its relation to present-day principles in education, and presents suggestions as 

 to specific courses in agi'iculture, the governing influences in the arrangement 

 of such courses, and the pedagogical procedure in organizing the subject in 

 schools maintaining the usual general public school courses of study. In addi- 

 tion to an outline of the work as pursued in a few of the States, a summary 

 of successful practices in teaching agriculture in the rural school with one 

 teacher is presented. 



Spring laboratory methods, S. A. Mineab {Bui. OJcla. Agr. and Mech. Col., 

 8 (1912), No. 26, pp. 8, figs. 0). — Laboratory exercises (1) to increase the pro- 

 duction of corn by judicious selection of seed ears, (2) the determination of good 

 cotton seed for planting purposes, (3) a practical study of the yield of oats, 

 (4) to demonstrate how plants feed, (5) the amount of moisture, and (6) the 

 loss of moisture after rains, are outlined by the author. 



Potato studies for schools, J. W. Hungate (Dept. Agr. State Normal 8choo\ 

 [Cheney, Wash.l, Bui. A, No. 2, 1912, ^p. 15, figs. 5). — This pamphlet gives in- 

 structions as to planting, cultivating, and harvesting the potato crop, including 

 exercises on the structure, albumin, and water content of the potato, its use 

 for seed planting operatious,_ treatment for scab, seed selection, storing, and 

 scoring potatoes. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture, 1911 (U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Rpts. 1911, pp. 1010). — This consists of the report of the Secretary and heads 

 of Bureaus. The various reports are also issued as separates. A portion of 

 the report of the Secretary, comprising a discussion of the economic results of 

 cold storage, is abstracted on page 164 of this issue. 



Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industiy, 1910 

 (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Anim. Indus. Rpt. 1910, pp. 573, pis. 42, figs. 7.5).— This 

 contains a report of the Chief of the Bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 1910, numerous articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue, and a list of the 

 publications of the Bureau during 1910. An appendix contains the rules and 

 regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to animal industry issued 

 during 1010. 



Annual Report of Hawaii Station, 1911 (Hawaii Sta. Rpt. 1911, pp. 63, 

 1)1 s. 7, figs. 6). — This contains the organization list, a summary by the special 

 agent in charge as to the investigations of the year, and reports by the ento- 

 mologist, horticulturist, chemist, and agronomist. The experimental work 

 recorded is for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Twenty-fourth Annual Report of Michigan Station, 1911 (Michigan Sta. 

 Rpt. 1911, pp. lJi7-510, i)ls. 2, figs. 51). — This contains reports of the director 

 and heads of departments on the work of the station during the year, the experi- 

 mental features of which are abstracted elsewhere in this issue, reprints of 

 Bulletins 262 to 264, Special Bulletin 54, Technical Bulletins 5 to 10, and Circu- 

 lars 10 and 11, previously noted, and a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 19U. 



