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Modern Fruit Marketing. By Bliss S. Brown, Professor of Horticulture in the 

 Maine College of Agriculture. Orange Judd Co., $1.25. 

 If our great grandfathers could awake from their long sleep and come back 

 to see how we are getting along, probably nothing except automobiles, aero- 

 planes, and telephones would surprise them more than our present methods of 

 marketing farm products. In their day they shook the apples from the trees, 

 put them in barrels and carted them to the nearest town and sold for what they 

 could get. Now the process of marketing is as complex as is everything else 

 in our modern life, — as is well shown by this book written by a high authority; 

 it deals with the subject of marketing fruit with a thoroughness that is note- 

 worthy. In it are discussed fruit harvesting operations, preparing fruit for 

 the market, fruit packing and package, the storage of fruit and its effects on it, 

 transportation, selling agencies, and methods of selling, organizations of fruit 

 growers and fruit shows. The book is written tersely and clearly and is pro- 

 fusely illustrated ; it is a volume that should be in every fruit grower's library. 



The Book of Forestry. By Frederick F. Moon, Professor of Forest Engineering, 

 Syracuse University. D. Appleton and Co. 351 pp. $2.00. 



This volume is dedicated to young America and to Daniel Carter Beard, New 

 York Scout Commissioner. It is written with a thought that "the best way 

 to reach the citizen of to-morrow is to interest and instruct the boy of to-day." 

 Part I covers the following topics: What is forestry? — what the forests do for 

 us, saving Uncle Sam's biggest bank account, how big trees from tiny seedlings 

 grow, properties of wood and their uses, making money out of forestry, the 

 life of a forester, how the forest is guarded, measuring the forest crop, harvest- 

 ing the forest crop, the most interesting forest products, how wood is preserved, 

 city forestry and shade trees, the future of forestry in the United States. 

 Part II is given over to a description of the trees and shrubs which are of eco- 

 nomic importance and has a key for determining wood sections. 



Part I has 15 interesting full page illustrations and Part II has many line 

 drawings to aid in determining species of trees. The book is written in a simple 

 and chatty style which will surely make it attractive to boys and girls ; and it 

 will undoubtedly fulfill the author's desire that it may "awaken the love of the 

 forest in the heart of young America, and a realization that forestry is necessary 

 for the comfort, health, and prosperity of future generations." 



Experimental Plant Physiology. By Lucy E. Cox. vii + 1 1 1 pp. Longmans 

 Green & Co., London. 1915. $.60 



The book contains directions for sixty-nine physiological experiments 

 designed for pupils of high school age. It is particularly interesting as restric- 

 ting itself wholly to physiology. It indicates better than any other manual of 

 the reviewer's acquaintance the possibilities that lie before elementary plant 

 physiology in our secondary schools. 



As the book is of British authorship it naturally reflects some methods which 

 are not in accord with current American practice. For instance, the labora- 

 tory directions not only give the aim and method, but also set down in con- 

 siderable detail the expected observations and inferences. 



The directions are clearly given, assisted by illustrations when necessary, 

 and a number of experiments are new. 



