598 EXPEBIMENT STATION RECORD. 



discusses the advisability of corn standards, and outlines and explains the 

 score card in use. 



Poultry keeping, H. R. Lewis (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 

 1915, pp. XVII I +365, pi. 1, figs. 182).— This, text for rural and graded schools, 

 which with slight adaptations may be used in high schools, consists of an intro- 

 ductory discussion of different grades and methods of instruction in poultry 

 husbandry and a treatise dealing with the different breeds, hatching and 

 rearing, housing and feeding, products, health, diseases and enemies, and 

 management of poultry. Each chapter is followed by laboratory exercises, a 

 list of review questions, and references to literature. Lists of reference books 

 and of colleges and stations giving attention to poultry problems, a plan and 

 rules for boys' and girls' poultry contests, score cards, and data on the fom- 

 position and digestibility of common feeding stuffs, etc., are appended. 



Poultry keeping project study outline {Bui. Bd. Ed. Mass., No. 36 (1914), 

 pp. 139). — This poultry keeping project outline consists of questions and refer- 

 ences for producing and disposing of live poultry, eggs, turkeys, ducks, and 

 geese. 



Housekeeping, Alice M. Fuller (Manila: Bur. Ed., 1914, pp. 298, pis. 3, figs. 

 59). — This text-book for girls in the public intermediate schools (grades 5 and 

 6) of the Philippines consists of reading lessons and practical exercises in 

 housekeeping and cooking, sewing and textiles, hygiene and home sanitation, 

 and ethics. 



Agricultural economics, E. C. Sedlmayb (Land u. Forstw. Unterrichts Ztg., 

 28 (1914), No. 3-4, pp. 203-219). — The author gives an outline for instruction 

 in agricultural economics, and discusses the relations of agricultural economics 

 to agricultural production and to political economy, as well as the use of 

 monographs, statistics, and farm experiments in the promotion of instruction 

 in agricultural economics. 



Observations on legal instruction in secondary agricultural schools, F. A. 

 ScHOLZ (Land u. Forstw. Unterrichts Ztg., 28 (1914), No. 3-4, pp. 220-224).— 

 Observations are made on instruction in constitutional, civil, and administrative 

 law, including its relation to agrculture, in the secondary agricultui*al schools 

 in Austria, all of which devote 2 hours a week to this subject in the third year, 

 and 2 hours a week to political economy in the second year. 



Outline of nature-study, G. H. Teafton (Nature-Study Rev., 11 (1915), No. 

 3, pp. 94-169, figs. 2). — The author gives a detailed outline of the nature-study 

 course, arranged according to seasons, in use in the elementary school of the 

 State Normal School at Mankato, Minn., together with a study of the aims, 

 available materials, and methods of teaching nature study and its relation to 

 other subjects. 



Course IIL Home gardening, E. C Bishop and G. R. Bliss (Iowa State 

 Col. Agr. Ext. Circ. 11 (1912), pp. 3-16, figs. 4)- — General regulations and direc- 

 tions are given for conducting the work of the individual home garden. 



Yard and garden contests, C. L. Fitch (Iowa State Col. Agr. Ext. Bui. 32 

 (1915), pp. 16, figs. 12). — This is a description of the methods employed by a 

 civic organization in the improvement of gardens and yards in Davenport, Iowa. 



Suggestions for boys' acre corn club contest, P. C. Taff (Iowa State Col. 

 Agr. Ext. Dept., Junior Circ. 28 (1915), pp. 15, figs. 9). — Suggestions are given 

 for selecting, testing, planting, and cultivating corn. 



School gardens, 1915, edited by R. L. Templin (Cleveland, Ohio: The Chil- 

 dren's Flower Mission, 1915, pp. 48, figs. 31). — Information and suggestions are 

 given on planning and conducting school and home garden and junior clean-up 

 work, and annual exhibitions. 



