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should be given at one of the existing agricultural colleges and a national 

 examination in poultry be held. At least two women members should be added 

 to the county committees of agricultural education and a woman should be 

 employed in inspection work by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the 

 organization of women's institutes should be encouraged. 



Summaries of oral evidence before the conference, statistics on the employ- 

 ment of women in agriculture, and a memorandum by the secretary on the 

 facilities for agricultural education for women in England and Wales, the ex- 

 tent to which women are and might be employed in a.gricultural work in Eng- 

 land and Wales, with particulars of the farm operations performed and par- 

 ticulars of scholarships free to women students in agricultural courses in 

 1914-15, are appended. 



Agricultural reeducation of the maimed (Vie Agr. et Rurale, 6 {1916). No. 

 Jf9, pp. /fOl-424, figs. 28). — This number is devoted to a description of the 

 facilities in France for the agricultural reeducation of soldiers maimed in the 

 war. 



Our field and forest trees, Maud Going (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 

 1916, pp. [10'i-{-2^2, pis. 18, figs. S.5). — This book, which is intended for the 

 high school student and the " man in the street," treats of the various parts of 

 the tree, together with their functions, wasteful lumbering and tree diseases, 

 the relation of woods, river, and the rain, the uses of wood, and the question of 

 a wood famine, forest fires, U. S. National Forests, Canadian forest reserves, 

 and the forester and his work. The book is arranged in seasonal sequence for 

 the convenience of the teacher and endeavors to avoid technical terms and 

 phrases. 



Exercises in poultry husbandry for high schools, W. E. Evans and F. G. 

 Behrends (llthaca, ?.'. Y.: Authors, 1916], pp. 7S, fig. 1). — Thirty-nine labora- 

 tory exercises in poultry husbandry, adapted to the needs of high schools, are 

 outlined. They include a poultry survey and a study of the fowl, parasites, 

 incubation, brooding, the egg, the preparation of poultry products, poultry 

 houses, feeds, identification of varieties, a visit to a poultry shov.', and a critical 

 examination of a poultry farm. Two-week schedules for 10 students in a 

 poultry course, in conjunction with farm shop work, are suggested. An ap- 

 pendix in 30 parts, consisting of questions and references to literature, may be 

 used for review or as work in connection with the student's preparation for the 

 home project. 



List of workers in subjects pertaining to agriculture and home economics 

 in the U. S. Department of Agriculture and in the state agriciiltural col- 

 leges and experiment stations (U. S. Dept. Agr., List of Workers in U. 8. 

 Agr., 1917, pp. 88). — This is the annual organization list of workers along these 

 lines (E. S. R., 34, p. 94), corrected to January, 1917. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Report on agricultural experiment stations and cooperative agricultural 

 extension work in the United States for the year ended June 30. 1915 

 (U. S. Dept. Agr., Rpt. Agr. Expt. Stas. and Coop. Agr. Ext. Work, V. S., 1915, 

 pp. 321+.%4, pis. 12). — This report, prepared by the States Relations Service, 

 consiists of two parts. 



Part 1 includes the usual report on the work and expenditures of the agricul- 

 tural experiment stations in the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, 

 Porto Rico, and Guam, together with detailed statistics compiled from oflicial 

 sources as to tlie organization, revenues, additions to equipment, and expendi- 

 tures of the stations. 



