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Equipment for teaching domestic science, Helen Kinne (Boston: Whit- 

 comb and BarrmcH, 1UJ6. pp. [6]+10.i, pin. 76, fuju. 2ii). — In this revision 

 (B. S. R., 25. p. 393) chapters are added on Portabhi Kquipnieut for Lectures, 

 and New Developments in Household Arts Equipment, including the practice 

 Ixouse, the school apartment, the unit kitchen, and the school lunch room as a 

 cooking laboratory. 



Food and nutrition laboratory manual, Isabel Bevieb (Boston: Whitcomb 

 and Barrows, 1915, pp. 80).— To this manual, previously noted (E. S. R., 20. 

 p. 775), considerable new material has been added, and tlie classification and 

 methods of experimentation have been revised on the basis of present knowledge. 



Clothing and health, Helen Kinne and Anna M. Cooley (Ne^v York: The 

 Macmillan Co., 1916, pp. VII-\-302, pi. 1, figs. 150). — This is an elementary text- 

 book, in story form, dealing with elementary processes in sewing, making sim- 

 ple garments, care and repair of clothing, choosing and wearing clothes, and 

 leading textile materials. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Program of work of the United States Department of Agriculture for the 

 fiscal year 1917, E. H. Bradley (Washington: Govt., 1916, pp. 502).— The pro- 

 posed activities of this Department are set forth in project form. 



Report of Porto Rico Station, 1915 (Porto Rico Sta. Rpt. 1915, pp. Jf5. pis. 

 3). — This contains the organization list, a summary by the agronomist in charge 

 as to the general conditions and lines of work conducted at the station during 

 the year, reports of the chemist .and assistant chemist, horticulturist, assistant 

 horticulturist, plant pathologist, and entomologist abstracted elsewhere in this 

 issue, and a special article entitled A Porto Rican Disease of Bananas noted 

 on page 352. 



Twenty-eighth Annual Report of Texas Station, 1915 (Texas Sta. Rpt. 

 1915, pp. Jf^, figs. 2). — This contains the organization list, a financial statement 

 for the federal funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915. and for various 

 state funds for the fiscal year ended August 31, 1915, and a report of the 

 director on the work of the station and the various substations. 



Monthly Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station (Mo. Bui. 

 Ohio Sta., 1 (1916), Nos. 10, pp. 289-320: 11, pp. S21-352, figs. 72).— These 

 numbers contain, in addition to several articles abstracted elsewhere in this 

 issue, the following: 



No. 10. — Influence of Sulphur on Crop Production, by J. W. Ames and G. E. 

 Boltz, an abstract of Bulletin 292 (E. S. R., 3.''>, p. 220) ; Mulching the Apple 

 Orchard, by F. H'. Ballou, an extract from Bulletin 301 (E S. R., 36, p. 40) ; 

 and The Ohio Soil Survey, by W. C. Boardman. 



No. 11. — Roughages for Fattening Lambs, by .T. W. Hammond, an abstract 

 of Bulletin 245 (E. S. R., 28, p. 671) ; Producing Mulch Material in Apple 

 Orchards, by F. H. Ballou, an extract from Bulletin 301 (E. S. R., 36, p. 40) ; 

 Observations on the Wheat Harvest of 1916, by C G. Williams ; Fall Steaming 

 of Tobacco Plant Beds to Prevent Root Rot, by A. D. Selby, T. Houser. and 

 J. G. Humbert; and Problems of the Southeastern Ohio Farmer, by C. W. 

 Montgomery. 



Monthly bulletin of the Western Washington Substation (Washington 

 Sta., West. Wash. Sta. Mo. Bvl, J^ (1916), No. 8, pp. 16. figs. 5).— This number 

 contains brief articles on the following subjects : Production Costs in Dairying, 

 by H. L. Blanchard ; Improve Soils by Drainage, by P]. B. Stookey ; The Logic 

 of the Winter Feeding Schedule, by Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Shoup (see p. 373) ; 

 Spur Blight of Red Raspberries, by A. Frank; Trap the Moles Now; and 

 Winter School for Farmers. 



