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submitted to the Board of General Direction of Agricultural Education of 

 Argentina for the colonization of graduates of agricultural schools on govern- 

 ment lands in various parts of the country, followed by opinions of the press 

 concerning it. 



Purpose and organization of the seminar for farmers in Konigsberg 

 (Neumark), Luekkg (Jahrh. Deut. Lan&w. Gesell., 29 (191^), No. 1, pp. 198- 

 203). — An account is given of the object and organization of the seminar for 

 farmers at Kouigsberg which has been establislied for the purpose of giving a 

 theoretical training in agriculture to farm owners, renters, and particularly 

 estate officials, in as short a time as possible. The instruction is given by means 

 of lectures in agricultural chemistry and mineralogy, physics and meteorology, 

 plant production and bacteriology, animal production, chemical and micro- 

 scopical practicum, general crop production and fertilizers, machinery, special 

 plant production, animal breeding and dairying, management and taxation, 

 bookkeeping, political economy and commerce, administration and law, veteri- 

 nary medicine and farriery, architecture, surveying and leveling, forestry, 

 fishery, horticulture, and fruit and vegetable growing. These lectures are fol- 

 lowed by discussions and criticism by the students and are supplemented by 

 excursions and such advanced farm practicums as mechanical soil analysis, 

 determination of lime in soils, the fat content and adulteration of milk, of 

 water content and margarin in butter, of the weight, germination, adultera- 

 tion, and impurities of seeds, starch content of potatoes, sugar content of beets, 

 hardness of water, tests of fertilizers and feeding stuffs, etc. The instruction 

 extends through 10* months, 34 hours a week, of which over 1* to 2 hours a 

 week are devoted to the practicums. A 5-year practical experience is required 

 for admission. A similar seminar is in operation at Schweidnitz. 



How to organize and conduct a girls' canning club, Birdie I. Robinson 

 {Alahama Col. Sta. Circ. 23 (WIS), pp. 16, figs. 6).— The author points out the 

 object of girls' canning clubs and the commercial value of the work, and out- 

 lines a plan of organization, constitution, by-laws, etc. An outline for an illus- 

 trated booklet or history of girls' garden and canning work, by O. H. Benson, is 

 included. 



Information on corn growing for corn club boys, L. N. Duncan and J. B. 

 Hoiior {Alahama Col. Sta. Circ. 24 {1913), pp. 10, figs. 5). — Instruction is given 

 on the selection of seed corn, preparation of seed bed and planting, fertilization, 

 and cultivation. 



Alabama Boys' Corn Club Day, L. N. Duncan and J. B. Hobdy {Alabama 

 Col. Sta. Circ. 22 {1913), pp. 16). — This circular outlines a program, a suggested 

 constitution and by-laws, and other essentials for a school corn club. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual Beport of Alaska Stations, 1913 {Alaska Stas. Rpt. 1913, pp. 80, 

 pis. 15). — This contains the organization list and a report of the several lines 

 of work carried on during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913. Meterological 

 data and accounts of the extensive tests with field and garden crops and of 

 other lines of work are abstrated elsewhere in this issue. 



Annual report of the director of the experiment station on work done 

 under the local experiment law in 1913, J. F. Duggak {Alabama Col. Sta. 

 Circ. 25 {191.',), pp. 3-40).— This includes the text of the law (E. S. R., 24, p. 

 400), a report by the director on the organization and progress of the work 

 under its provisions, a financial statement for the year, and reports from heads 

 of departments, including detailed reports as to boys' and girls' club work. 



