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confined primarily to Industrial and home-making courses which correlate with 

 the diiy's occupation. Chapters are devoted t<> b general statemenl of certain 

 aspects common to evening classes, trade extension courses, and vocational 

 home making courses. Appendixes deal with evening household arts and ■<•<•- 

 reational courses, giving a large variety of suggestions as to aim-- and methods 

 adapted to BUCh courses, and record forms. 



The fact is emphasized that vocational courses for women in the evening 

 schools may he and should he more than the generally accepted unrelated 

 courses In cooking and Bewing. Possible correlations and adjustments of even- 

 ing school work to economic conditions are Indicated. The existing con- 

 fusion as to essential differences between trade extension courses and 

 household arts courses and as to the relationship of household arts 

 training to wage-earning callings for women and girls is considered. The fun- 

 damental unlikenesses, In some cases sharp differences, of aims between house- 

 hold arts as a part of general education and vocational home making as all 

 Important hut difficull division of vocational education are recognized in the 

 bulletin. 



Genetics laboratory manual, E. B. Babcock and .7. L. Collins [Ncir )'<>rk: 

 MoQraw-Hill Booh Co., mis, pp. XI+56, figs. 7).— The work of the laboratory 

 course outlined in this manual consists of breeding experiments with the 

 vinegar By, a study of variation in plants, work with material Illustrating the 

 Mendellan principles, and a study of some features of plant and animal breed- 

 ing. In order that the same materials may not be used two years in succes- 

 sion and for the purpose of meeting as many conditions as possible, three alter- 

 native exercises are suggested under most of the numbers. The work cut lined, 

 therefore, is sufficienl for three half-year courses consisting of one three-hour 

 period a week for 15 or 1G weeks, and by slight modification and amplifica- 

 tion the exercises can be adapted to a course calling for two or three periods 

 each week. 



The manual is intended in particular to supplement the textbook entitled, 

 Genetics in Relation to Agriculture, by E. 15. Babcock and U. E. Clausen (B. S. 

 B., 39, p. G71). 



Poultry laboratory manual and note book, II. It. LEWIS [Philadelphia and 

 London: J. It. lAppincott Co., 1918, pp. I'i'i. figs. -'/). — This manual is intended 

 for use in the high school or college. The sequence and distribution of the 44 

 exercises outlined are specially planned to accompany the author's text, Pro- 

 ductive Poultry Husbandry (E. S. B., 81, p. 270). They deal with the geo- 

 graphical distribution of America's poultry industry; locating and planning the 

 poultry farm layout; distributing the poult ryman's capital; fowl nomenclature; 

 factors determining the classification of fowls; selecting the foundation stock: 

 poultry house construction; feeding stuffs and rations; breeding and marketing 

 poultry; caponizing; candling, grading, and preserving eggs; advertising; 

 poultry records and accounts; preparing poultry for exhibition; judging 

 poultry; diseases and medicines; and trips to successful poultry farms, whole- 

 sale and retail poultry and egg markets, and to a standard-bred poultry show. 



Lessons in cookery. — Book I, Food economy. P. E. Stewabt [Chicago: Rand 

 McNally J- Co., 1918, pp. VIII+850, pis. }. figs. 82).— This volume, which is 

 designed primarily for the high school Btudenl of home economics, covers a 



semester's work, containing 40 cooking lessons planned according to f is in 



season from September to February and based roughly on economic values. 

 The lessons, consisting of work with menus and recipes, are grouped according 

 to their economic and food values and to illustrate some economic or dietetic 

 principle. The book is divided into sdx parts, dealing respectively with the 



