AGPJCULTUKAL EDUCATION. 793 



delivered bj- the vice-president of the Department of Agricnlture and Techni- 

 cal Instruction for Ireland before the Council of Agriculture between 1900 and 

 1907 on various ])has(>s of the educational and other work of the department. 



Elementary agriculture, K. L. Hatch and J. A. Haselwood {Chicuf/o. 1907, 

 pp. 198. pi. I, fiffs. .'i.'i. dffiiis. 5). — This is a revision of the text-boolv of elemen- 

 tary agriculture previously noted (E. S. R., IS, p. 294). 



A secondary course in agrononay ( V. H. Dcpt. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Circ. 

 77, pp. .'/J). — The manuscript for this circular was i)repared by G. F. Warren, 

 of Cornell University, for the committee on instruction in agriculture of the 

 Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. It 

 contains a syllabus on agronomy for secondary instruction, a detailed outline 

 for the study of wheat, instructions to teachers, and outlines for 113 lectures, 

 recitations, demonstrations, and laboratory exercises on phases of agronomy 

 concerning which there is now available material suitable for use in the reci- 

 tation and the practicum. These cover in a general way the study of plants 

 and their environment, and in a more pai'ticular way leguminous crops, corn, 

 grasses, wheat, and cotton. There are also lessons on the home garden, the 

 propagation of plants, insect enemies and diseases of plants, spraying solutions, 

 bacteria and molds, forestry, farm buildings and roads, and other topics. 



Simple exercises illustrating some applications of chemistry to agriculture, 

 K. L. Hatch (U. *S. Dept. .4 rye, Office E.rpi. Htus. Bui. 19.',, pp. 22, figs. .3).— This 

 bulletin contains 28 exercises intended to illustrate in a very simple way those 

 elements and compounds called plant foods which are essential to the growth 

 and development of the plant, compounds formed by the i)lant out of the food 

 which it consumes, the sources of plant food, and the meaning and importance 

 of acids and alkalis. 



Proceedings of the twenty-first annual meeting of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, held at Lansing, 

 Mich., May 28-30. 1907. edited by A. C. True. W. H. Real, and H. C. White 

 (U. ,S. Dcpt. Agr.. Office E.rpt. Stas. Bui. 196. pp. ll't). — An account of this 

 convention has been given (E. S. R., IS, pp. 1007-1018). 



