792 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



biogr.ipbical sketch of Dr. J. W. I\ol)ertson is followed by an account of his 

 connection with the " Macdonalcl movement " and a description of the different 

 institutions aided or built up by Sir AYilliam Maedonald, including consolidated 

 schools, a training school for teachers at Guelph, and Maedonald College at Ste. 

 Anne de Bellevue. 



Agricultural instruction [Chile] (Ofic. Cent. Estad., Shwpsis Estud. i Jcogr. 

 Chile, J 905, pp. 219-222). — Information is given concerning the organization, 

 courses of study, income, students, and other matters of interest for the Agri- 

 cultural Institute, Santiago, and the following practical schools : Practical 

 School of Agriculture, Santiago; Practical School of Viticulture and Viniculture, 

 Cauquenes ; School of General Agriculture and Animal Industry. Chilian ; 

 School of General Agriculture and Forestry, Concepcion School of Tillage, Ani- 

 mal Breeding, and Agronomy, Ancud : and the Practical School of Agriculture, 

 Temuco. 



Teaching agriculture in the common schools, A. D. McNair (Farm and 

 Ranch, 26 {1907), Vo. -)2, p. 2). — An answer to the objection to teaching agri- 

 culture in the common schools on the gi-ound that the subject is a technical 

 one, with suggestions for simple worlc in agriculture to be undertaken. 



Programme of experimental science, drawing, manual instruction, and do- 

 mestic economy for day secondary schools iUcpt. Ayr. and Teeh. Instr. Ire- 

 land Circ, nm-S. pp. 12). 



Home nature-study course, Anna B. Comstock and J. W. Spencer {Home 

 Nature-8tudy Course [Cornell Univ., State Col. Agr.], n. ser.. ^ {1907), No. 1, 

 pp. 36, figs. 15). — Suggestions are given for the fall work of third-year pupils 

 as outlined in the Syllabus of Nature Study and Agriculture issued by the 

 New York State Education Department. There are lessons on birds, corn, 

 pumpkins, turtles. Monarch butterfly, horse-chestnut, and the dahlia, with a 

 supplementary article by J. W. Spencer on the planting of fall bulbs. 



How to read the weather map, J. W. Smith {Agr. Col. E.it. Bui. [Ohio State 

 Univ.], 3 {1907), Xo. 3, pp. 5-13. charts 6). — This is a description of the work 

 of the Weather Bureau with reference to gathering data for weather maps 

 and the making of the maps, and an interpretation of the arrows, lines, and 

 other symlmls used. The article is suitable for study in the public schools. 



Nebraska boys' and girls' associations — Organization, E. C. Bishop {Univ. 

 Febr. Bui., 12. ser., No. 25, pp. 3-22, figs. 2, dgni. 1). — Conditions governing 

 entries and the judging of exhibits are given, together with the programme of 

 the meeting. 



Selecting corn for the contest, V. Keyser {Univ. NeJn: Bui., 12. ser.. No. 

 25, pp. 22-32, figs. 2). — Directions are given for selecting, storing, packing, and 

 shipping the corn for exhibits. 



Nebraska farmers' institutes, E. A. Burnett and V. Keyser {Univ. Nebr. 

 Bui.. 12. ser.. No. 22, pp. 27, figs. '/). — This bulletin contains suggestions for 

 organizing and conducting farmers" institutes and descriptions of new features 

 which the department of farmers' institutes in Nebraska is introducing into 

 the work this year. There are suggestions concerning the organization of 

 local farmers' institutes, local support for farmers' institutes, local manage- 

 ment, stock and judging demonstrations, exhibits of farm products, women's 

 work, boys' and girls' contests, and the evening session. A brief report is 

 given of the farmers' institute conference at Lincoln. January TS. 1007, and of 

 the fai'mers' institute work during the winter of 1907. 



Addresses delivered at the meetings of the Council of Agi'iculture during 

 the first vice-presidency by H. C. Plunkett (Dublin: Dept. Agr. and Tech. 

 Instr. Ireland, 1907, pp. 122). — In this pamphlet ai-e collected the 11 addresses 



