898 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. [Vol. 36, 1917] 



State institutions. In four states — Louisiana, Oklalioma, Iowa, and Indiana — 

 tlie teacliing of liome economics in all public schools is required by law. In 

 many of the normal schools brief courses are required of all women students 

 to give them a broader perspective for their general teaching, to enable them 

 to introduce courses in the rural schools, and to prepare them for housekeeping. 

 State supervisors of home economics have been appointed in four States. 

 Eleven other States have some special system of home economics supervision. 

 Twenty-three States have prepared courses of study in home economics for the 

 common schools, . . . 



" The funds made available by the Smith-Lever Act have led to a great 

 increase in the amount of extension teaching in the rural districts. Women's 

 clubs and other organizations are furthering the study of homemaking in towns 

 and cities. The public press recognizes the movement as of universal interest." 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual report of the director for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916 

 {Delaicare Sta. Bui. 116 {1917), pp. 31). — This contains the organization list 

 and the report of the director on the work and publications of the station. It 

 includes a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, as well 

 as a report of the extension service. 



Annual S,eport of New Jersey Stations, 1915 (New Jersey Stas. Rpt. 1915, 

 pp. XXVni-\-39-ff, pis. 55).- — This contains the organization list of the stations, 

 a financial statement for the State Station for the fiscal year ended October 31, 

 1915, and for the College Station for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915, a 

 report by the director and departmental reports, the experimental features of 

 which are for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. Reports of the 

 fertilizer inspections have been noted in Bulletins 285 (E. S. R., 34, p. 625) 

 and 287 (E. S. R., 35, p. 128), and feeding stuffs in Bulletin 283 (E. S. R., 

 34, p. 665). 



Report of the director for 1916, ,1. G. Lipman (Neio Jersey Stas. Bui. 298 

 (1916), pp. 51). — This contains the organization list and a report of the director 

 on the work and publications of the station during the year. The experimental 

 work recorded is for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



County experiment farms in OMo, 1915 (Ohio Sta. Bui. 303 (1916), pp. 207, 

 figs. 28). — Reports on the Miami, Paulding, Clermont, Hamilton, Washington. 

 Hancock, Trumbull, and Mahoning county experiment fai-ms for 1915 are given. 

 The experimental work recorded is for the most part abstracted elsewhere in 

 this issue. 



The work of the experiment station and agricultural extension service for 

 1916 (Wisconsin Sta. Bui. 275 (1917), pp. 92, fiys. ^i).— Part 1 of this report, 

 by H. L. Russell and F. B. Morrison, deals with the work of the station, the 

 experimental features not previously reported being abstracted elsewhere in 

 this issue. Part 2, Carrying Agricultural Science to the Farm, by H, L. 

 Russell and K. L. Hatch, reports on the extension activities. Part 3 contains 

 brief summaries of the station publications of the year, and part 4, a financial 

 statement as to the federal funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. 



The Department of Agriculture of the Union of South Africa: A short 

 account of its history, organization, and activities (Pretoria: Oovt., 1915, 

 pp. 32). 



Manual of agricultxiral laws, compiled and edited by R. E. Annin (Boston: 

 State Bd. Agr., 1916, pp. 195).— A compilation of the Massachusetts laws deal- 

 ing with agriculture as they stood at the prorogation of the legislature in 1916. 



