AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 495 



swine, poultry, farm mauagemeut, the farm bouse, and the farm community. 

 An appendix contains IS tables giving important information concerning appa- 

 ratus and equipment for teaching agriculture in high schools, suggestions for 

 tlie library, and data concerning the viability of seeds, quantity of seeds per 

 acre, legal weights, fertilizers, feeds, value of agricultural products, average 

 yields, agricultural pi-oduction in the United States, average wages of farm 

 labor, rules for measuring grain, hay, and land, and various statistics showing 

 the progress of agriculture. 



Guide to the study of plant culture, M. Fischer {Lcitfadcu dcr Pflanzcn- 

 haulehre. Stuttgart, 1907, pp. XI+232, figs. 113).— This book is intended for 

 practical agriculturists and for use in agricultural schools. Part 1 is devoted 

 to general plant culture, including discussions of plant food, soil, and climate; 

 part 2, to the culture of special crops such as the cereals, leguminous plants, 

 forage crops, hoed ci'ops, and a number of plants of minor agricultural impor- 

 tance ; and part 3 takes up the question of plant breeding, discussing in this 

 connection the breeding of a number of the more important field crops. A list 

 of works with reference to general agriculture, plant culture, and iilant breed- 

 ing is also given. 



Textbook on plant culture for rural public schools, A. Christensen 

 (LwreJjog i Planteavl for Folkeskoler paa Lamlet. Copenhagen, 1909, pp. S2, 

 figs. 21). — This text-book, issued by the Royal Danish Agricultural Society, is 

 intended as a guide for teachers and pupils of rural public .schools and evening 

 schools. 



Experimental daii"y bacteriolog'y, H. L. Russell and E. G. Hastings {Bos- 

 ton, Xcic York, Chicago, and London, 1909, pp. VIII-\-1^7, figs. 19). — This is a 

 handbook of dairy bacteriology intended to train the student in the bac- 

 teriological processes necessary for him to comprehend the relations, use, 

 and care of micro-organisms to dairy processes. Specific information is given 

 concerning the glassware and other equipment of the bacteriological laboratory, 

 the preparation and care of the different media, the making and study of 

 cultures, the use of the microscope, and the relations of bacteria to milk and 

 milk products. 



Preventing damage by frost, J. W. Smith {Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Otiio State 

 UniL■.^, -'/ (1909). Xo. 9, pp. 9-12, figs. 2).— Conditions favorable for frost for- 

 mation and methods of protection against frost are set forth bj^ the author. 



Selecting seed corn, L. A. Moorhouse (Bui. Okla. Agr. and Mech. Col., 7 

 (1909), No. 2. pp. 23, figs. i'/). — Directions are given for selecting and testing 

 seed corn by school children, together with a score card for corn, directions for 

 testing other seeds, and statistics of the corn crop of Oklahoma. 



The sport of bird study, II. K. Jon (Xcw York, 190S, pp. XIII+2S.',-\-IV, 

 pis. 76). — A popular account, richly illustrated with original photographs. 



A loaf of bread, Ruth A. Wardell (Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State Univ.], 

 Jf (1909), Xo. 10, pp. 4-10, figs. 5). — A discussion of the ingredients of bread 

 and a description of the long and short methods of baking bread. 



Something about sewing for Nebraska girls (Lincoln, Nchr.: Dept. Pub. 

 Instr., 1909, pp. 11, figs. .5). — This publication was prepared for members of the 

 Nebraska Girls' Domestic Science Association and for teachers who are inter- 

 ested in the work. It contains a list of the articles to be prepared for the State 

 sewing contest for which ])remiunis are to be awarded, information concerning 

 a short course in cooking and sewing offered by the Nebraska School of Agri- 

 culture at the State meeting of the Girls' Domestic Science Association, direc- 

 tions for making aprons and shirt waists, a recipe for bread, and a score card 

 for bread. 



