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various chapters require no apparatus and, for the most part, no materials 

 not readily obtainable on the farm. 



Home projects in horticulture and field crops, G. H. WHITCHEB (.V. //. l>> pt. 

 Pub. Instr., Div. Insts., No. 88 {1911-18), pp. 18, fig. 1). — Project requirements 

 for standard New Hampshire schools and suggestions for the horticultural 

 projects in the freshman year of the high school are given. 



The book of the school garden, C. F. Lawrance (London: Evans Bros., Ltd., 

 [1918], pp. XII+231, figs. 79). — This book consists of four parts dealing respec- 

 tively with (1) vegetable culture, including the planning and cropping of 

 school gardens, manual operations in the garden, fertilizers, seed sowing, thin- 

 ning and transplanting, harvesting and storing garden produce, seed saving, 

 potato culture, and allotment management; (2) garden friends and foes; (3) 

 fruit culture, treating of methods of propagation, planting, pruning and train- 

 ing fruit trees and bushes, and dealing with established fruit trees; and (4) 

 discussions for indoor work for the gardening class and for making useful ap- 

 pliances and tools, useful hints on intercropping, rotation of crops, manuring, 

 etc., instructions for growing a Dumber of vegetables and Bowers, and a simple 

 method of protecting early and late crops. A model allotment cropping plan and 

 a model school garden plan are included. A scheme of work for the school gar- 

 den, the classroom and correlation, a table of seed quantities, etc., a garden 

 calendar, directions for using spraying machines, and formula? for various 

 sprays are appended. 



The home and the family. Hki.kn Kinne and Anna M. OOOIXT (.Ynr York: 

 The MacmiUan Co., 1917, pp. vi+2:>2. pi. l, figs. 196).— This text, which la 

 written in story form, is Intended for use in elementary schools as a supple- 

 mentary reader to the authors' two textbooks. Clothing and Health and Food 

 and Health, previously noted (B, S. R., 36, pp. ::'.»:. A\>7), and for the home 

 people. It describes how the cottage loaned to the pupils of the Pleasant Valley 

 school was decorated, furnished, and kept clean. Suggestions for laundering 

 are made, and a chapter on the care of the baby is Included. The final chapter 

 consists of a scries uf K'ssoiis on personal efficiency, suggesting some helps in 

 keeping well and including a lesson on the care of the sick. Practical exerci>es 

 and problems are included. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Monthly Bulletin of the Ohio Experiment Station (Mo. Bui. Ohio Sta., 3 

 (1918), No. 11, pp. S21-3.',9. pi. 1, figs. 8).— This contains several articles ab- 

 stracted elsewhere in this issue, together with the following: War Time Uses 

 of Timber, by E. Secrest ; Fall Practices to Destroy Cereal Crop Insects, by 

 T. H. Parks ; and Autumn Lawn and Flower Garden Work, by W. E. Bontrager. 



Monthly bulletin of the Western Washington Substation ( Wastiington Sta., 

 West. Wash. Sta. Mo. Bui., 6 (1918), No. 8, pp. 106-120, figs. 6).— This number 

 contains brief articles on the following subjects : The Washington State Land 

 Settlemen Association, by E. F. Benson ; Vinegar Making by the Storage Method, 

 and Sauerkraut, both by J. L. Stahl ; Post-mortem Examination of Poultry, by 

 W. T. Johnson ; Making Artificial Daylight for Poultry, by G. R. Shoup < see 

 p. 2S0) ; and How Some of Our Common Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests 

 Pass through the Winter, and What Can Be Done toward Controlling Them 

 at That Time, by A. Frank (see p. 245). 



