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and management suggestions for September, mcluding in addition to the class- 

 room instruction in underlying principles practical exercises consisting largely 

 of club activities and home projects, suggested correlations, and references to 

 literature. 



A unifonn course of study in agriculture for the elementary schools of 

 Ohio {Ohio Dept. Puh. Instr. Bui. 5 {1915), pp. 65). — This is a suggestive outline 

 of a course in elementary agriculture, arranged in seasonal sequence, for 

 grades 1, 2-4, inclusive, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8, including laboratory and field 

 work, correlations, and references to literature. A price list of agricultural 

 apparatus for a first grade one-room rural elementary school is appended. 



Environment of plants. — II, Soils, J. W. Hotson {Wash. {State) Dept. Ed. 

 Bui. 24 {1914), pp. 62, figs. 9). — This bulletin for high schools contains exercises 

 intended to illustrate certain phenomena that have been or are occurring in the 

 soil, and is based on 12 years' experience in agricultural teaching. 



The home vegetable garden {Cornell Rural School Leaflet, 8 {1915), No. 

 4, pp. S31-844i fiffs. 2). — This article offers suggestions to the older boys and 

 girls for planning and conducting a home vegetable garden to provide food for 

 the home table. 



[Tree study] {Davey Inst. Tree Survey Instr. Book, 1914, Nos. 1, pp. 16, 

 figs. 7; 2, pp. 16, figs. 5; 3, pp. 16, figs. 11; 4, pp. 24, figs. 18; 5, pp. 31, figs. 18; 

 6, pp. 19, figs. 26; 7, pp. 24, figs. 17; 8, pp. 28; 9, pp. 24, figs. 2; 10, pp. 32, figs. 

 12; 11, pp. 40, figs. 13; 12, pp. 24, figs. 19). — This is a series of lessons devoted 

 to a study of the structure of the tree, agencies which destroy trees, including 

 insects, fungi, and bacteria, and other agencies, with the remedies and pre- 

 ventives, pruning, the use of dynamite in tree culture, correct tree planting, 

 spraying materials and machinery, proper treatment of tree diseases, shade tree 

 insects, and city forestry. 



Productive feeding of farm animals, F. W. Woll, edited by K. C. Davis 

 {Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1915, pp. XI +362, pi. 1, figs. 96).— This 

 text, prepared for use of agricultural schools and colleges as well as practical 

 farmers, is a systematic treatment of the main principles relating to the feeding 

 of farm animals, and of various feeding stuffs available to stockmen. 



Materials for a course in animal husbandry, W. H. Smith {School Sci. and 

 Math., 15 {1915), No. 2, pp. 100-104). — l^his article contains an outline and a 

 discussion of subject matter and of the use of supplementary materials for a 

 course in animal husbandry in the secondary schools. The author deems it 

 " more advisable to make a detailed study of a few classes of animals common 

 to the community than to touch lightly on many with which the student, per- 

 haps in the course of a lifetime, would never come in contact," 



Cattle husbandry in rural education for Georgia schools {Btil. Univ. Ga., 

 No. 218 {1914), PP- 30, figs. 24). — This bulletin is not intended as a manual for 

 a detailed course of study, but as an appeal to the historical and economic 

 interests of the pupils and to the home and farm interests centering around 

 cattle husbandi'y. It discusses the educational, social, and economic Importance 

 of the subject, the field and the need of cattle husbandry in Georgia, possibilities 

 for progress, types and breeds of cattle, and Georgia boys' cattle clubs, including 

 score cards for beef and dairy cattle. 



Judging of draft horses, W. H. Palmer {Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State 

 Univ.], 10 {1915), No. 8, pp. 24, figs. 37). — A study of requirements and relative 

 values for judging draft horses. 



Outlines for work in domestic science and domestic arts for the elementary 

 schools in Illinois {Univ. III. Bid., 12 {1915), No. 18, pp. i6).— These outlines 

 are given for fifth and sixth grade sewing requiring 60 minutes a week and 

 seventh and eighth grade cooking requiring one double period a week. They are 



