596 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



The indifference or prejudice of the farmer can be overcome by the teacher who 

 is genuinely fond of farm life and has the tactful knowledge to give the farmer 

 valuable information, on agricultural facts. Such a teacher can also stimulate 

 the interest of children in farm life. In arithmetic " she can say apples instead 

 of oranges. She can talk about acres, rods, bushels, gallons of milk, pounds 

 of butter. She can stimulate their curiosity as to the habits of animals, birds, 

 bugs, insects, weeds, and flowers. But to do this she must be interested in 

 them herself." 



Agricultural training', G. D. Braik (Waugnnui Ed. Bd. Leaflet IS, pp. Jf). — 

 This leaflet outlines a 2-year secondary course in agriculture and dairying intro- 

 duced into the district high schools of Wanganui, New Zealand. The subjects 

 of study include physics, chemistry, physical geography, botany, plant life and 

 growth, entomology, work in the garden, manures and manuring, drainage, ani- 

 mal life, dairying, and economics. As a third-year course pupils may be re- 

 quired to conduct experiments under the supervision of the teacher. This 

 course has been outlined with a view to the development of the nature study, 

 practical geography, agriculture, dairying and weather studies of the primai-y 

 school ; the development of scientific method by the processes of observation, 

 exiieriment and inference; the making of each year's course complete in itself; 

 the preparation of the pupil for the Junior Civil Service, or the matriculation 

 examination by the end of the second year; and the general development of the 

 pupil. 



Illustrative exhibits at state and county fairs, I^. H. Goddard and W. A. 

 Lloyd {Ohio Stit. Circ. 101, pp. 21, fig^. 21). — Brief statements concerning the 

 first agricultural fair in America and the first in Ohio are followed by an ac- 

 count of the work of the Ohio Station in connection with county fairs, in- 

 cluding an illustrated description of its recent exhibits. There are also items 

 concerning an exhibit of the Ohio College of Agriculture, the exhibits of sta- 

 tions in other States, and statistics of attendance at fairs. The Ohio Station 

 exhibited at G fairs in 1905. 9 in ]90(>, 7 in 1907, S in 190,S, and 20 in 1909. 



Exercises at the twenty-fifth, anniversary of the establishment of the 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (Maine Sta. Doc. 385, pp. 38).-— This 

 gives an account of the proceedings at this meeting, which was held at the 

 University of Maine, March 9, 1910, together with a brief historical sketch of 

 the station. The principal address was delivered by Dr. W. H. Jordan on 

 Conditions which Limit Agricultural Efficiency. 



Information for students concerning the College of Agriculture of the 

 University of California, E. B. Babcock (Calif ornia Sta. Circ. 52, pp. S). — 

 This is an announcement of the courses of instruction and other information 

 of interest to prospective students of the college. 



Announcement of tanners' short courses for 1910 at the University Farm, 

 Davis, California (California Sia. Circ. 53, pp. 21, Jiga. 10). 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual Report of Pennsylvania Station, 1909 (Pennsylrania Sta. Rpt. 

 1909, pp. 371, pis. 31, figs. 16). — This contains the organization list, a financial 

 statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, a report of the director on 

 the work and publications of the station during the year, and departmental 

 reports, of which that of the meteorologist is abstracted on page 510 of this 

 issue. The report also contains several special articles abstracted elsewhere in 

 this issue, reprints of Bulletins 93 and 95, and a reprint, with some changes, 

 of Bulletin 100. 



