MISCELLANEOUS. 95 



with directions for^corn culture ami records, contests iu baking bread, canning 

 fruit, and sewing, and exhibiting tlie products. 



Agricultural extension. — II, Corn shows and selecting', preparing, and 

 scoring' exhibits, A. T. Wiancko and G. I. Christie {Indiana Sta. Clrc. 18, 

 pp. 30, figs. 25, map 1). — Rules governing exhibits at local corn shows are 

 suggested and directions given for selecting, preparing, and arranging exhibits 

 for corn judging iu accordance with the score card. 



The study of corn, V. M. Shoesmith (ycic York. 1910, pp. I X + 11-96. pi. 

 1. lifiK. 2.'i. mail 1). — This boolv is prepared as a laboratory guide in corn judging 

 for use in agricultural colleges and schools and as a guide to the farmer iu 

 the study of corn. It furnishes a coiupreheuslve description of the various 

 types and more popular varieties of corn, directions for selecting, judging, 

 testing, shelling, and grading corn, a discussion of the relative value of ear 

 characteristics as represented in the score card, and other data. 



A study of corn, L. N. Duncan {BuJ. Agr. Dcpt. [Ala.'], No. 33, pp. 16, figs. 

 S). — This bulletin has been prepared as a guide to the school study of the corn 

 plant. It furnishes outlines for a detailed examination of the entire plant, 

 the foliage, ears, kernels, and cob. and includes the standard corn score card 

 adopted by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. 



List of books on agriculture and related subjects prepared by short course 

 department (Mass. Agr. Col. [raiiiplilet], 1910. March, pp. 15). — This list is 

 classitied under the following heads : General farm reading, agricultural edu- 

 cation, bacteriology, botany, dairying, domestic animals, domestic science, ento- 

 mology, farm crops, fertilizers, floriculture, fruit, hygiene and physical training, 

 landscape gardening, market gardening, mushrooms, poultry, rural social 

 science, soils, trees and shrubs, and veterinary science. The author, date, and 

 price of each book is given, but not the publishers. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-first Annual Keport of Kentucky Station, 1908 (Kentucky Sta. 

 Rpt. 1908, pp. XV-\-5lO, pis. U'l. figs. .')). — This contains the organization list, a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1908. a report of the 

 director on the work of the station during the year, reprints of Bulletins 133 to 

 138. previously noted, and reports of analyses of mineral waters' and meteor- 

 ological data abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Sixteenth Annual Report of Minnesota Station, 1908 {M'n'i^csoia Sta. Rpt. 

 1908. pp. XX]'+3ti5, pis. S, figs. 1U9). — This contains the organization list; a 

 list of the bulletins published during the y wir : a reitort of the director, includ- 

 ing a financial statement for the fiscal year ended .June 30, 1908, and brief 

 summaries of the work of the various departments of the station, of which that 

 of the veterinary division is abstracted on page 83 of this issue; and reprints 

 of Bulletins 102 to 109. previously noted. 



Annual Report of Nevada Station, 1908 {Xcrada Sta. Hal. 66, pp. 10, pis. 

 7). — This contains the organization list and reports of the board of control, 

 the director, aud heads of departments. The report of the director includes a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908. The experimental 

 work reported in the dei)artmenfal reports is al)stracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Twenty-second Annual Report of Rhode Island Station, 1909 (Rhode 

 Island Sta. Rpt. 1909, pp. 15-J-I99 + V1) . — This contains the organization list, 

 a report of the director on the work of the station during the year, including a 

 suuunary of meteorological observations of the year which is abstracted on 

 page 15 of this issue, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30. 

 1909. 



