192 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Home nature-study course, Anna B. Comstock (Home Nntvre-Study Course 

 [Voriull Univ., 8tatc Col. Agr.], n. so:, 5 {IHOD), No. J,, pp. d 1-120, pgs. 16).— 

 Suggestions are presented for the work of fourth and fifth year pupils as out- 

 lined in the Syllabus of Nature Study and Agriculture issued by the New York 

 State Department of Education. Lessons are given on violets, swallows, the 

 purple martin, chimney swift, skunk, summer stars, walnuts, and an observa- 

 tion beehive. 



Elementary agricultural chemistry, H. Ingle (London, 190S, pp. IX+250; 

 rev. in Nature [London], 80 {1909), No. 2056, pp. 93, 94).— This book is an 

 attempt to present the fundamental facts and i)rinciples of agricultural chem- 

 istry to readers and students not familiar with general chemistry. The author 

 admits that any such attempt " must be in many ways a failure," and strongly 

 recommends the previous reading of some good modern text-book on the more 

 general subject. Few references are given to chemical literature, but the book 

 abounds in chemical formulfe and otherwise presents much of the technical 

 appearance of a school text-book. It is especially full in its treatment of thi, 

 ash constituents of the food of animals and the composition of cow's milk. 



Preventing' damag'e by frost, J. W. Smith (Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State 

 IJniv.l. 'i (1909), No. 9, pp. 9-12, figs. 2). — Conditions favorable for frost for- 

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



Some thing's to learn about bees, H. Osborn (Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State 

 Univ.], -/ (1909), No. 9, pp. 4-8, flgs. 7). — Suggestions as to what can be learned 

 concerning the habits of bees from an observation hive set up near the school. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture, 1908 ( U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Rpts. 1908, pp. 862). — This consists of the reports of the Secretary and heads of 

 Bureaus. The various reports are also issued as separates. 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1908, James Wilson (U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Rpt. 87, pp. 100). — This report, which is reprinted in abridged form from 

 the publication noted above, contains a review of the work of this Department 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 190S, together with a review of the progress 

 of agriculture in this country during the past 12 years, as previously noted edi- 

 torially (E. S. R., 20, p. .501). 



Thirty-first Annual Report of North Carolina Station, 1908 (Nortli Caro- 

 lina Sta. Rpt. 1908, pp. iSS).— This contains the organization list, a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908, reports of the director and 

 heads of departments, numerous special articles abstracted elsewhere in this 

 issue, and reprints of a press bulletin on The Grape Black Rot and of Bulle- 

 tins 197-199 previously noted. 



Finances, meteorology, index (Maine Sta. Bui. 163, pp. 381 -39 6+ XII).— 

 This contains the organization list of the station, meteorological observations 

 noted on page 113 of this issue, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1908, an index to Bulletins 1.")1-1G3, which, together with Official 

 Inspections 1-6, noted on page 165 of this issue, collectively constitute the twenty- 

 fourth annual report of the station, a list of bulletins and of miscellaneous and 

 technical publications issued during the year, and announcements and notes on 

 the work, personnel, and equiimient" of the station. 



Report of cooperative and extension work in agriculture in middle Ten- 

 nessee for the years 1907 and 1908 (Tennessee Sta., Rpt. Coop, and Ext. 

 ^Vork Agr. Middle Tenn. 1907-8, pp. .3-/02).— This includes a general report of 

 this work by the director of the station, followed by d3tailed reports abstracted 

 elsewhere in this issue. 



