598 EXPEKIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Elements of agriculture, W. Fseam (London, 1911, 8. ed., pp. XIII +692, pis. 

 18, figs. 270). — This text-book, prepared by authority of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England, was edited and revised in the eighth edition by J. R. 

 Ainsworth-Davis. It consists of 3 parts: (1) The soil. Including chapters on 

 formation, composition and classification, physical properties, sources of loss 

 and gain, improvement and tillage of soils, agricultural Implements, and 

 manures and manuring; (2) the plant, including chapters on seeds and their 

 germination, structure and functions of plants, cultivated plants, vreeds, selec- 

 tion of seeds, grass land and its management, farm crops, hardy fruit culture, 

 and fungus pests; (3) the animal, including chapters on structure and func- 

 tions of farm animals, composition of the animal body, foods and feeding, 

 principles of breeding, breeding, feeding, and management of horses, cattle, 

 sheep, and pigs, fattening of cattle, sheep, and pigs, dairying, poultry and poul- 

 try keeping, and harmful and beneficial animals. 



Some suggestions regarding rural school agriculture, L. R. Waldron (Da- 

 kota Farmer, 32 (1912), No. 10, pp. 5^0, 5Jfl). — The author suggests simple 

 experiments in plant breeding, soils and soil physics, farm crops, plant diseases, 

 germination of seeds, and a study of the weather, for use in public schools. 



Com, C. A. McMuEBY (El. School Teacher, 12 (1912), No. 7, pp. 297^05).— 

 In this, the first of 3 papers which constitute the report of a committee of the 

 Superintendents' and Principals' Association of Northern Illinois, the subject 

 of corn is treated as a geography topic for the fifth or sixth grade. The paper 

 presupposes lessons on corn in the earlier grades and suggests a historical 

 consideration of the subject, the problem of corn production on a large scale 

 in the corn belt, and a comprehensive survey of its importance in the world. 



School exercises with com, T. I. Mairs (Penn. State Col. Bui., 6 (1912), No. 

 2, pp. 20, figs. 7). — This bulletin, which is intended for teachers rather than 

 pupils, consists of 3 parts, suited, respectively, to the fall, winter, and spring 

 and summer. The exercises embrace some that are suitable for all grades from 

 the fifth or sixth to the upper classes of the high school. 



Arbor Day manual ([Boise], Idaho: Dept. Pah. Instr., 1912, pp. 24, figs. 

 2). — The history of Arbor Day. directions for improving the school ground, 

 including the preparation of a planting plan, selecting and obtaining trees and 

 how to plant them, list of decorative trees and shrubs native to Idaho, and 

 questions and answers for the instruction of pupils in the protection of forests 

 are given. 



Arbor Day annual, 1912, compiled by G. M. Wiley (Albany, N. Y.: Ed. 

 Dept., 1912, pp. 70, pis. 4, figs. 42). — This annual is devoted to fruit trees In 

 New York and includes the following articles : Arbor Day and Our Fruit Trees, 

 by A. S. Draper; The Fruit Tree, by L. H. Bailey; Fruit Production in New 

 York, by C. J. Huson ; Orchard Management, by U. P. Hedrick ; Cross Pollina- 

 tion of the Pear and Apple, by H. M. Dunlap ; and The Care of Fruit Trees, 

 by B. J. Case. These are followed by a short list of varieties of fruit for the 

 home orchard and garden, and a suggested program and poems for Arbor Day. 



Forest primers, D. E. Burcez, D. J. Lapie, and G. Lapie (Cartilla Forestal. 

 Mexico: Sec. Fomento, 1909, No. 1, pp. 35; 1910, No. 2, pp. 62; 1911, No. 3. pp. 

 57). — These primers, which have been prepared by the professors of the schools 

 for forest guards and revised and amplified by the central board of forestry, 

 are resumes of the instruction given to students who wish to become forest 

 guards. The first primer gives instruction concerning forest nurseries, the 

 second on silviculture, and the third on reforestation. 



A study of food, II, edited by Mary P. Van Zile (Agr. Ed. [Kans. Agr. 

 Col.], 3 (1910), No. 9, pp. 58, figs. 7). — This concludes a- previous article (E. 

 S. R., 26, p. 403). 



