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Vegetable gardening and canning: A manual for garden clubs, A. W. 

 Nolan and J. H. Gkeene {New York and Chicago: Row, Peterson d Co., 1917, 

 pp. 96, figs. IS). — This manual for garden clubs comprises a garden project 

 calendar, the outlines for 10 practical exercises, instructions for vegetable 

 gardening, including the preparation of products for market, care of food and 

 methods of canning, a model constitution and by-laws for organizing a club, 

 hints and suggestions for parliamentary practice, garden rules, recommenda- 

 tions concerning companion and succession crops for the home garden, a list 

 of home gardening publications, and a form for a student's notebook on 

 vegetable gardening and canning. 



Suggestions for food conservation (St. Louis: Wo?nen's Cent. Com. on Food 

 Conserv., 1917, pp. 100, fig. 1). — This booklet contains suggestive notes taken 

 from the lecture course given in the Normal Training School of Food Con- 

 servation held under the auspices of the Women's Central Committee on Food 

 Conservation in St. Louis in May, 1917. The notes deal with the following 

 subjects : Woman as a buyer in general, food distribution in the United States, 

 overhead costs — how women can help themselves by helping to reduce these 

 costs now, food protection in commercial handling, classification of food prin- 

 ciples and measurement of food values, meals and their substitutes for war 

 purposes, division of income — budget and expenditures, the processes of di- 

 gestion, substitutes, adulterations, preservatives, misleading labels, laboratory 

 tests, avoidance of diversion ol foodstuffs, storage in cave and cellar, can- 

 ning fruit and vegetables, practical demonstration on home drying of foods 

 and on the packing of eggs, and emergency recipes now being used in the 

 St. Louis food conservation schools. 



Three short courses in home making, Caekie A. Lyford {U. S. Bur. Ed. 

 Bui. 23 {1917), pp. 104, fiffS- ^1)- — This bulletin contains simple and definite 

 outlines of three short courses in home making for the elementary rural 

 schools. The courses consist of 20 lessons each in the care of the home, cook- 

 ing, and sewing, together with suggestions to the teacher, and lists of neces- 

 sary equipment and textbooks on these subjects. It is recommended that 

 periods of at least 40 minutes be provided for all of the practical lessons, 

 while a 30-minute period is deemed sufficient for a lesson without practical 

 work. A list of books bearing upon home economics or on methods of teach- 

 ing is suggested for a rural school library. 



The biology of the bird, J. F. Bovard {Eugene, Dreg.: Ext. Div. Univ. Oreg., 

 1917, rev., pp. 235, figs. 202). — This is a series of 17 correspondence lessons 

 offered by the extension division of the University of Oregon £)n the biology 

 of the bird. Each lesson is accompanied by review questions. References 

 for reading are suggested and directions given for field work with birds. 



Prepare for war on insects {New Bethlehem, Pa.: New Bethlehem High 

 School [1917], pp. 17). — This book has been prepared for the farmers and 

 truck growers of Clarion County, Pa., by the sophomore class of the New 

 Bethlehem (Pa.) High School. It gives in condensed form the common 

 name, a short description, and means of control, prevention, and remedies of 

 the insect enemies and plant diseases of farm crops, truck garden plants or 

 vegetables, and live stock. 



War emergency propaganda in the interest of poultry husbandry, H. R. 

 Lewis {Jour. Amer. Assoc. Instr. and Invest. Poultry Hush., 3 {1917), No. 10, 

 pp. 73-76, 77). — A summary is given of the results obtained from an inquiry 

 sent to over 150 men engaged in educational, extension, and research work 

 in poultry husbandry in the United States and Canada, as to measures which 

 are being specially emphasized to promote the production of poultry and eggs 



