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Fifteenth annual general report of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction for Ireland {Dept. Ayr. and Tech. Jnsir. Ireland, Ann. 

 Gen. Rpt., 15 (191^-15), pp. V+219). — This is a report on the department's 

 administration and funds and the details of its worli during 1914-15, including 

 agricultural and technical instruction. 



Exercises in agriculture, S. H. Dadisman {Chicago: Lyons and Carnahan, 

 1916, pp. 160, figs. SJf). — This laboratory manual and notebook contains 100 

 exercises which have been tried in high schools by the author and are recom- 

 mended for laboratory work, two periods each week if possible, in a one-year 

 course in agriculture. They compi-ise studies of plants, animals including poul- 

 try, soil and plant growth, farm mechanics, pomologj-, potatoes, the hotbed, the 

 garden plat and record, forestry, weeds, birds, collecting and mounting insects, 

 and farm management. A minimum list of apparatus and material for high- 

 school agriculture is included. 



One hundred exercises in agriculture, J. H. Gehes and J. A. James (New 

 York: The Macmillan Co., 1916, pp. XI +222, figs. 60).— The exercises outlined in 

 this laboratory manual and notebook deal with soils, field crops, farm animals 

 including poultry, plant propagation, horticulture, and farm management. They 

 are the outgrowth of the author's work in teaching agriculture in the high schools 

 of Missouri and Wisconsin. Lists of helpful government publications and of 

 etiuipment and supplies are includetl. 



Courses of study in agriculture and minimum of required equipment for 

 the farm-life schools of North Carolina, E. A. Hodson (Raleigh, N. C: Dept. 

 Pub. Instr., 1915, pp. 60, figs. 22). — This bulletin contains an outline of the four- 

 year course in agriculture and related subjects and the minimum of general 

 equipment, with estimated- cost, for approved farm-life schools in North Caro- 

 lina ; also suggested additioniil equipment needed for work in the special de- 

 partments, suggested text and refei-euce books, and lists of books and bulletins 

 for the library. The agricultural work has been outlined to meet the nwds 

 of the boy or girl who does not intend to go beyond the high school. Students 

 who are preparing for college may take the regular high-school coux'se and as 

 much of the agricultural work as possible. The agricultural instruction in- 

 cludes botany and the elements of agriculture in the first year, field crops, 

 vegetable gardening, and fruit culture in the second year, farm animals, feeding 

 live stock, dairying, and poultry raising in the third year, and soils and fertil- 

 izers and rural economics in the fourth year. Practical work is outlined for 

 each subje'ct. 



[Rural school agriculture] (Cornell Rural School Leaflet, 10 (1916), No. 1, 

 pp. 426, pis. 2, figs. 238). — This leaflet is devoted to (1) studies of birds, ani- 

 mals, insects, plants, and trees for 1916-17, as outlined in the New York State 

 Syllabus, including among others the follov.ing articles: The Pig, by E. S. 

 Savage ; Hog Cholera, by R. R. Birch ; The Honey Bee, by Anna B. Corastock ; 

 Legumes, by G. F. Warren; The Bean, by Anna R. Comstock; Field Beans, by 

 E. V. Hardenburg ; A Serious Bean Disease, by M. F. Barrus ; The Collection 

 and Preservation of Specimens of Plants, by K. M. Wiegand; The Soil, by 

 E. O. J'ippin; and Ten Lessons on the Apple, by E. L. Overholser ; (2) home 

 making, including Directions for Canning and Jelly Making, by Helen Knowl- 

 ton; and an article on Yeast and Bread Making, by Flora Rose; and (3) sug- 

 gestions to teachers, and articles on Corn Day; General Exhibitions for Farm- 

 ers' Week, February, 1917; Exhibitions, Fairs, and Competitions; and The 

 Nature and Procedure of Junior Home Project Work, by F. L. Griffin. A list 

 of reference books pertaining to the subjects treated in the leaflet is appended. 



The story of the forest, J. G. Dorrance (New York: American Book Co., 

 1916, pp. 237, figs. 113). — This book, which has been prepared chiefly for use 



