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Instruction in moor culture at the agricultural and technical high schools 

 and universities in Prussia, H. Wolff (Mitt. Vcr. Fiird. Moorknltur Dent. 

 Reiche, 33 {1015), No. 9, pp. 243-246} .—The author briefly reviews the lectures 

 and exercises given in rural engineering, including moor culture, together with 

 the number of hours devoted to it in the high schools and universities of Prussia. 

 Only the agricultural high school of Berlin and the University of Halle offer 

 special lectures in moor culture, the other institutions giving only a brief survey 

 of it as a bi'anch of rural engineering. 



The essentials of agriculture, H. J. Waters (Boston: Oinn and Co., 1915, 

 pp. X-\-455+XXXVI, pis. 3, figs. 226).— This test presents the principles under- 

 lying successful farm practice in all sections of the United States, the arrange- 

 ment of the subject matter being based on experience in teaching agriculture in 

 secondary schools and the courses of study adopted by various state depart- 

 ments of education. The author has been assisted by experts in each branch of 

 the subject, which comprises a study of plant production in general and of 

 individual farm crops, care and management of soils, live-stock production, 

 business aspects of farming, and mechanical power for the farm. Each chapter 

 concludes with a list of review questions and problems, practical exercises, and 

 references to literature. Appendixes include score cards, data as to quantity 

 of seed to sow per acre, and similar useful information. 



Correlating agriculture with the puhlic school subjects in the Northern 

 States, C. H. Lane and F. E. Heald (U. S. Dept. Agr. Bid. 281 (1915), pp. 42, 

 figs. 6). — This bulletin gives detailed .suggestions to public school teachers on 

 utilizing home projects in correlating agriculture and farm problems with the 

 regular school work, the material being arranged according to a monthly 

 sequence plan. Directions for organizing a club, awarding prizes, and con- 

 ducting a school-exhibit day are included. 



Agronomy, II, Field crops for New Hampshire, G. H. Whitcher (N. H. 

 Dept. Pub. Instr., Inst. Circ. 21 (1914-15), pp. 22, figs. 4). — Directions are given 

 for conducting a 7-year practical crop rotation, suited to the needs of a large 

 majority of New Hampshire farmers, as a high-school project. The material is 

 so arranged that each crop in the series may be taken up by itself apart from 

 its relation to the rotation as a whole. 



Soil bacteriology laboratory manual, P. S. Burgess (Easton, Pa.: Chemical 

 Publishing Co., 1914, PP- YIlI+123, figs. 3). — This series of exercises, as used 

 in the College of Agriculture of the University of California, is designed to cover 

 one semester's work of 9 to 10 hours a week, references being appended to each 

 exercise. Appendixes contain general information on subsidiary methods in con- 

 nection with the exercises. 



How can the teacher make bee culture a school subject, training in habits 

 of investigation and arousing an interest in the insect world, E. F. Phillips 

 (Better Schools, 1 (1915), No. 6, pp. 96-98).— The author discusses the avail- 

 ability of bees for school purposes and the value of the subject of bee keeping 

 as an introduction to entomology. 



Productive swine husbandry, G. E. Day (Philadelphia and London: J. B. 

 Lippincott Co., 1915, pp. XIII +363, pi. 1, figs. 95). — This text which has been 

 previously noted (E. S. R., 29, p. 872), has been brought up to date and widened 

 in scope to adapt it also to Southern conditions. 



Pig club manual, J. D. McVean (North Carolina Sta. Circ. 26 (1915), pp. 31, 

 figs. 10). — This manual for pig club members contains a brief history of the 

 pig club movement, the aims and duties of pig club members, rules and regula- 

 tions for club contests, instruction in raising pigs, a pattern and directions for 

 making a bulletin case, and duplicate record blanks which are to be filled in and 

 the completed records sent to the state agent at the close of the year. After the 



