494 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



agriculture into the public schools of Massachusetts, with a description of the 

 experiments in agricultural education at the North Adams State Normal School 

 where 3 training schools are maintained, a city school with all the grades, a mill 

 village school with 2 rooms and 8 grades, and a rural school with 2 rooms and 

 G grades. Particular emphasis is laid upon the methods of conducting school 

 and home gardens iu connection with these training schools. 



Agricultural and industrial education for Oklahoma schools, E. E. Bal- 

 COMB {Bui. Okla. Agr. and Mecli. Coh. 7 {1909), No. 1, pp. J,!, flgs. i6).— Gen- 

 eral suggestions are made for organizing different phases of agricultural educa- 

 tion under the law prescribing such instruction in the public schools of 

 Oklahoma. 



Traveling schools, A. H. Snyder {Rural Life Conference, 1909. Vharlottes- 

 villc, Va., 1909, pp. 4S-5'f). — In this paper a description is given of the organi- 

 zation and work of the winter short courses held at different points in Iowa 

 by the extension department of the Iowa College. 



Extension work in the West, A. H. Snyder {Rural Life Conference, 1909. 

 Charlottesville, Va., 1909, pp. 2^-31). — The author defines the purposes of exten- 

 sion work and describes the different features of extension work in Iowa for 

 the instruction of rural children and adults. 



Public school extension work, O. B. Martin {Rural Life Conference, 1909. 

 Charlottesville, Va., 1909, pp. 32-42). — The purposes and possibilities of public 

 school extension work are set forth, and the work of the author in connection 

 with the farmers' cooperative demonstration work of this Department iu organ- 

 izing boys' and girls' agricultural clubs in the South is described. 



Boys' and girls' agricultural clubs, F. W. Howe (Rural Life Conference, 

 1909. Charlottesville, Va., 1909, j)p. 43-47). — A brief description of the origin 

 and development of the boys' and girls' agricultural club movement is given. 



Corn, cotton and live stock contests for Georgia schools and school chil- 

 dren — 1909 {Bui. Univ. Georgia, No. 9S, pp. 32, figs. 9). — This bulletin contains 

 the rules governing the corn, cotton and live stock contests for Georgia school 

 children, suggestions to the contestants to aid them in planning the work, score 

 cards for corn and cotton and for bacon and fat hogs, a record blanjv for corn and 

 cotton, directions for judging cotton and poultry, and notes on variety tests of 

 cotton. 



Farmers' institutes in Georgia {Bui. Univ. Georgia, No. 102, pp. 276, figs. 

 16). — This includes the annual report of the director of farmers' institutes for 

 1908, an account of the exercises at the dedication of the new building of the 

 College of Agriculture, the proceedings of the special conferences on fertilizers, 

 forestry, crop rotation, agricultural education, corn production, horticulture, 

 cotton growing, live stock, and women's work, and the results of corn and cotton 

 contests in the State. 



Elements of agriculture, G. F. Warren {New York and London, 1909, pp. 

 XXIV+'i3.'i, pis. l.'i. figs. 176.) — The author has designed this text-book for use 

 in high schools, academies, and normal schools, and in colleges where only a 

 short time can be given to the subject. It is probably the first modern text- 

 book of agriculture to be prepared especially for secondary schools. 



The plan followed corresponds closely to the outline recommended by the 

 Committee on Instruction in Agriculture of the Association of American Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. An introductoiy chapter defining 

 agriculture and giving its divisions is followed by chapters on the improve- 

 ment of plants and animals, the propagation of plants, plant food, the soil, 

 maintaining the fertility of the land, some important farm crops, enemies of 

 farm crops, systems of cropping, feeds and feeding, horses, cattle, sheep, 



