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officers in giving students a new appreciation of the problems of community 

 and national life and a deeper understanding of the meaning and aims of 

 democracy. The three series are intended for use in the upper classes of high 

 schools, in the first class of the high school and the upper grades of the ele- 

 mentary school, and in the intermediate grades of the elementary school, 

 respectively. 



Among the lessons pertaining to agriculture and home economics the follow- 

 ing may be mentioned : In Series A, the history of the Federal Departments, 

 the United States Food Administration, substitute foods, and women as the 

 family purchaser ; in Series B, the varied occupations of a colonial farm, feed- 

 ing a city, a cotton factory and the workers, saving the soil, an intelligently 

 selected diet, the work of women, price control of wheat, concentration of 

 production in the meat-packing Industry, concentration in the marketing of 

 citrus fruits, good roads, and women in industry; and in Series C, spinning 

 and dyeing linen in colonial times, conservation as exemplified by irrigation 

 projects, preserving foods, preventing waste of human beings, the effects of 

 machinery on rural life, market reports on fruits and vegetables, sugar, and 

 the family and social control. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Thirtieth Annual Report of Illinois Station, 1917 (Illinois Sta. Rpt. 1917, 

 pp. 20). — This contains the organization list, a financial statement for the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1017, brief notes as to the principal lines of work, and a 

 list of publications of the year. Data are included as to 1017 yields of wheat 

 in soil fertility tests previously noted i E. S. R., 3S, p. 624). 



Report of the director for 1917, J. G. I.ipmax (A* w Jersey StOS. Bui. 817 

 (1917), pp. 55). — 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. 



Thirty-seventh Annual Report of Ohio Station, 1918 (Ohio Sta. Bui. S25 

 (1918), pp. XXVI+6, fig. 1). — This contains the organization list, a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 101*. and a report of the director 

 summarizing the work and publications of the station during the year. 



Thirtieth Annual Report of Rhode Island Station, 1917 (Bui R. I. State 

 Col., IS (1918), No. k, pp. 85-42, 4MS) — These pages include a report of the 

 director and a financial statement for the year ended December 31. 1017. The 

 experimental work recorded is for the most part abstracted elsewhere In this 

 IsMie. 



Monthly Bulletin of the Ohio Experiment Station (Mo. Bui. Ohio Sta., S 

 (1918), No. 10, pp. 289-318. figs. 10).— This contains several articles abstracted 

 elsewhere in this issue, together with the following: Selection and Care of Seed 

 Corn, by C. G. Williams; and Root Hot of Corn, by A. D. Selby. 



