1918] METEOEOLOGY. 13 



scribes equipment for canning in the home, canning In glass with directions for 

 various fruits and vegetables, canning in tin, standards for 4-H brand canned 

 fruits and vegetables ; gives directions for making jams, fruit butters, marma- 

 lades, and jelly ; and briefly discusses preserving. Time tables for canning 

 fruits and vegetables are included. 



The methods described are those taught to canning club members in the 

 Southern States. 



The sanitary control of tomato-canning factories, B. J. Howabd and 0. H. 

 Stephenson (U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 569 (1917)', pp. 29, pis. 2, figs. 5).— This bul- 

 letin discusses the findings of an inspection of several tomato-canning factories 

 in which defective methods of cleaning the apparatus or Inadequate sorting 

 methods were found responsible for insanitary products, and discusses the 

 operations of washing, assorting, trimming, and pulping, pulp-making systems, 

 promptness in handling, cleanliness in the factory, and laboratory control. 



Methods of preparing salmon, J. N. Cobb (C7. S. Dept. Com., Bur. Fisheries 

 Doc. 839 (1917), pp. 118-146, pis. 12). — These pages describe the salmon can- 

 ning industry of the Pacific Northwest and give notes on mild curing, pickling, 

 dry-salting, smoking, freezing, the utilization of salmon eggs, and miscellaneous 

 products, including meal, fertilizer, and oil. 



Hom.e manufacture of furs and skins, A. B. Fabnham (Columbus, Ohio: 

 A. R. Harding, 1916, pp. 285, figs. 91). — This volume gives practical instructions 

 on how to tan, dress, color, and manufacture or make into articles of orna- 

 ment, wear, and use furs and skins. The subjects treated in general are facts 

 ^and general principles for fur and skin workers ; correct modes of skinning fur 

 animals; stretching, curing, and handling fur skins and hides; storing and 

 shipping raw furs ; tools and appliances for tanning and dressing ; tanning 

 materials ; terms, formulas, and recipes ; preliminary work — soaking, fleshing, 

 degreasing ; softening and cleaning skins ; small or light furs ; heavy furs ; 

 deer skins and buckskin ; sheep and goat skins, etc. ; uses and principles of fur 

 dyeing ; furriers' tools and supplies ; making up furs, garments, robes, rugs, 

 coats, capes, caps, gloves, muffs, neck pieces, etc. ; utilizing fur waste ; cleaning, 

 repairing, and storing ; and prices for tanning and other fur work. 



METEOEOLOGY. 



Climatological data for the United States by sections (U. 8. Dept. Agr., 

 Weather Bur. Climat. Data, 4 (1917), Nos. 5 [^i], pis. 2, figs. 5; 6, pp. [216'i, 

 pis. 2, figs. 4). — These numbers contain brief summaries and detailed tabular 

 statements of climatological data for each State for May and June, 1917. 



Meteorolog^ical records for 1915 (New York State Sta. Rpt. 1915, pp. 983- 

 994). — Tables are given showing trldaily readings at Geneva, N. Y., of standard 

 air thermometers for each month of the year ; daily readings of maximum and 

 minimum thermometers at 5 p. m. for each month of the year ; a monthly sum- 

 mary of maximum, minimum, and standard thermometer readings for the year ; 

 monthly and yearly maximum and minimum temperatures from 1S83 to 1915, 

 inclusive ; average monthly and yearly temperatures since 1882 ; and rainfall by 

 months since 1882. 



[Meteorology for 1914], H. D. Edmiston (Pennsylvania Sta. Rpt. 1915, pp. 

 425-433, 4^7-521). — The observations here recorded are of the same character 



