592 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



Report of the Society of Southern Industrial Classes, Norfolk, Va., 

 October, 1907 {Trustees John F. Slater Fund Occas. Papers, No. Li, pp. .io). — 

 This is the eleventh annual report of the Society of Southern Industrial Classes 

 at Norfolk to the trustees of the John F. Slater fund and the Genei'al Education 

 Board. It includes statements concerning the itinerant work among schools 

 for negroes in cooking, carpentry and home gardening. This work was carried 

 on by the superintendent, two assistants. 13 regular teachers, and 32 volunteer 

 teachers. The total enrollment of pupils in this work was 3,247. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of Wyoming Station, 1907 {Wyoniiiiff 8ta. 

 Rpt. 1907, pp. I'fS). — This includes the organization list, a report of the 

 director on the history of the station and its work, a summary of the publica- 

 tions of the station during the year, a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1J)07, reports of the agriculturist and horticulturist, the botanist, 

 the chemists, the irrigation engineer, the animal husbandman, the agronomist, 

 and the meteorologist, together with plans of the station work for the ensuing 

 year. The experimental work reported is for the most part abstracted else- 

 where in this issue. 



Experiment Station Work, XLIII ( [7. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 309, 

 pp. 32). — This number contains articles on the following subjects: Ice for 

 household use, culture and varieties of root crops, cowpeas and soy beans, 

 silage from frosted corn, cooperation in marketing crops, incubation of eggs, 

 causes of death of young chicks, snow for poulti'y, eradication of cattle ticks, 

 and bacteria in cream. * 



Report on the work of the agricultural experiment station of the Uni- 

 versity of Jena for 1906 (Ber. Landw. Vers. Stat. Univ. Jena, 1906, pp. 20).- — 

 A summary of the work of this station for 1906 in fertilizer and feeding stuffs 

 control, seed inspection, plant diseases, variety testing, fertilizer trials, and 

 other lines. 



Yearbook of the German Agricultural Association, 1907 (Jarlih. Deut. 

 Landw. GeselL, 22 {1907), Xo. 2, pp. 2:',3-.'i33) .^A report of the proceedings at 

 the meetings of this association during 1906. 



Report of public measures for the advancement of agriculture for 1906 

 {Aurshrr. Offciitl. Fnranst. Landlir. Frennne, I'JOIJ. pp. LXMI+6o9. fiys. 13). — 

 This is the annual report of the commissioner of agriculture for Norway, with 

 reports of the State agricultural agencies, the chemical and dairy control sta- 

 tions, and the agricultural and dairy associations, schools, and exhibitions, an 

 account of the harvest in ]!i(t(;, and a sunnnary of average temperatures and pre- 

 cipitation during the year. 



Report of the agricultural department of Sweden, 1905 (K. Landthr. Styr. 

 UndcrddnUjd Ber.. 190.'). pp. //.j.:?+17). — The report contains the usual accounts 

 for the year of the weather conditions and harvests, and of the work of the vari- 

 ous agricultural and dairy societies, as well as of the educational, experimental, 

 and other public agencies for the advancement of agriculture in Sweden. 



Report of the agricultural department of Finland, 1904 {Landthr. Styr. 

 Meddel. 53, 1906, pp. 211). — This report contains data as to the work during 

 1904 of the public institutions for the advancement of agriculture in Finland. 



