296 



EXPEEIMENT STATION EECOED. 



in agriculture. There were 72,577,476 males and 34.199,230 females actively 

 engaged in the agricultural operations of the country. 



Live stock in Germany {Viertelj. Statis. Deut. Reichs. No. 1 {191 Jf), Ergdn- 

 zungsli.. pp. 135). — This report shows the number and value of the various 

 kinds of live stock on December 2, 1912, by minor subdivisions and of different 

 ages. Comparative data are given for earlier years for the more important 

 items. The following table shows the number at different censuses : 



Xianher of live stock in Germnnii. 



Kind. 



1873 



Horses 



Mules 



Asses 



Cattle 



Sheep , 



Swine 



Goats 



Hives of bees 

 Poultry 



3,352,231 



1,626 



11,689 



15,776,702 



24,999,406 



7,124,088 



2,320,002 



2,333,484 



No data. 



1883 



3,-522,545 



1,009 



8,786 



15, 786, 764 



19, 189, 715 



9, 206, 195 



2, 640, 994 



1,911,797 



No data. 



1892 



3,836,273 



383 



6,320 



17,555,834 



13,589,662 



12,174,442 



3,091,508 



2,034,485 



No data. 



1900 



4.195,361 

 649 

 7,199 

 18,939,692 

 9, 692, 501 

 16,807,014 

 3,266,997 

 2,605,350 

 64,453,171 



4,345,047 



942 



10,349 



20,630,544 



7,703,710 



22,146,532 



3,533,970 



2,594,690 



77, 103, 045 



1912 



4,523,059 

 1,883 

 11,264 

 20,182,021 

 5,803,445 

 21,923,707 

 3,410,396 

 2, 630, 837 

 82,702,030 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATIOIJ. 



[Agricultural] instiniction (Jahresher. Landw. Konigr. Sachsen, 1913, pp. 

 79-103). — Brief reports are given for 1913 of institutions in the Kingdom of 

 Saxony giving instruction in agriculture and home economics, and of special 

 courses in these subjects, together with tables showing the attendance by 

 districts for 1913-14 in these agricultural and home economics schools, and the 

 total attendance from 1S75 to 1913-14 for the former. 



[Agricultural education under the direction of the chamber of agriculture] 

 {Jahresher. Landw. Kammer Rhcinprov., 1913, pp. 69-99). — This is the annual 

 report of progress in agricultural education under the direction of the chamber 

 of agriculture of the Rhine Province, including the work of the Bacteriological 

 Institute, the Educational and Experimental Dairy Institute at Cleve, the 

 Poultry Breeding Station and School at Neuss. agricultural winter schools, 

 special courses, instruction in the army, and itinerant instruction. 



[School gardening and nature study] {Nature-Stud y Rev., 11 {1915), No. 2, 

 pp. 37-79, figs. 17). — This number comprises the following articles: Children's 

 Home Gardens, by Alice J. Patterson ; Vegetable Gardening for City Children, 

 by Ethel Gowans; School and Home Gardening in Portland, Oreg., Season of 

 1914, by M. O. Evans, Jr. ; Beautifying Work as Nature-Study, by Margaret 

 Dolan ; Heuristic Method, by L. C. McLean ; Nature-Study in the Gary Schools, 

 Margaret Ahearne; The School Pair an Aid to Gardening, by L. A. De Wolfe; 

 Plants for Class-Rooms, by Ellen E. Shaw; and Gardening at Bloomington, 

 111., by J. K. Stableton. 



The growth and influence of the nature-study idea, Anna B. Comstock 

 {Nature-Study Rev., 11 {1915), No. 1, pp. 5-11). — The author reviews the prog- 

 ress of the nature-study idea and points out its influence and practical benefits. 



Boys' and girls' contest clubs, L. H. Bailey (In York State Rural Problems, 

 II. Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon Co., 1915, pp. 71-79; Cornell Countryman, 12 

 {1915), No. 4, PP- 300-303, figs. 2). — The author discusses four dangers in boys' 

 and girls' agricultural contest work as some of it is undertaken at the present 

 time, viz, (1) that these clubs or contests may not represent real effort on the 

 part of the child, (2) the rewards may be out of proportion to the effort ex- 

 pended, (3) the effect of the contests may be to inflate the child and to give 



