396 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



County fair stock judging contests for boys, J. H. Skinner and G. I. 

 Chkxstie ([Purdue Univ., Dept. Agr. Ext. Pamphlet], pp. >})• — Rules, regula- 

 tions, and other suggestions for conducting tliese contests are given. 



County school fairs in Virginia, T. S. Settle {Richmond, Va.: Dept. Pub. 

 Instr., 1912, pp. 55, figs. 11). — A typical county school fair is described and the 

 history of the movement given. In 1911 there were 25 county fairs held, 

 10,000 school children competed for $7,000 worth of inizes, and between 30,000 

 and 40,000 people attended. Detailed suggestions are made for conducting a 

 county school fair, preparing premium lists for literary work, agriculture, 

 home economics, manual training, and athletics, and preparing exhibits in the 

 various classes, including score cards for judging the various articles exhibited. 



Growing children in California gardens, C. A. Stebbins (Nature-Study Rev., 

 8 (1912), No. 2, pp. 67-74, fid-^- 2). — ^An account is given of school garden work 

 in the Ohio State Normal School, also of the plan of the University of Cali- 

 fornia to make school life a copy of the community life. 



Worcester garden city plan; or, the good citizens' factory, R. J. Flood y 

 (Nature-Study Rev., 8 (1912), No. //, pp. lJi5-150, figs. 3). — This is a descrip- 

 tion of the garden city plan and an account of its development, object, and in- 

 fluence since it was started 5 years ago under the auspices of the Worcester 

 Social Settlement in the " island district " of Worcester, Mass. 



The garden city consists of a large group or city of little gardens, 10 by 20 

 ft., with streets, boulevards, squares, etc., like a miniature city. Dumps and 

 vacant lots have been used. Each child is charged the sum of 5 cents for his 

 garden, and given 5 packages of seeds and the ownership of all he raises. 

 Thex-e are now 4 of these garden cities in which last season there were 1,000 

 young gardeners. 



MISCELLAJiTEOTrS. 



Twenty-second Annual Report of Alabama College Station, 1909 (Alabama 

 Col. Sta. Rpt. 1909, pp. 31). — This contains the organization list, a tiuaucial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1009, and reports of the director 

 and heads of departments on the work of the station during the year. 



Twenty-third Annual Report of Alabama College Station, 1910 (Alabama 

 Col. Sta. Rpt. 1910, pp. 32). — This contains data corresponding to the above for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910. 



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

 Rpt. 1911, pp. 75). — This contains the organization list, a financial statement 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, a report of the director on the work 

 and publications of the station, and departmental reports, the experimental 

 features of which are for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Annual Report of Florida Station, 1911 (Florida Sta. Rpt. 1911, pp. CVIII-\- 

 XII, figs. 31). — This contains the organization list, a financial statement for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30. 1911, a list of the pul)licalions of the year, a 

 general review of the work of the fetation during the year, departmental reports, 

 and a list of the periodicals received by the station. Most of the experimental 

 Work reported is abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



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

 1911, pp. 16). — This contains lists of the publications of the station since its 

 establishment and during the fiscal year, a brief statement concerning the prin- 

 cipal lines of work, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1911. 



Annual report of the director for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911 

 {Delaware Sta. Bui. D/^, pp. 10). — This contains the organization list and the 

 report of the director on the work of the station. It includes a financial state- 

 ment for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911. 



