692 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



uioutbly sequence of tlie study of corn, poultry, nature study, the organization 

 of boys' and girls' clubs, dairy cattle, farmers' clubs and cooperation, farm 

 horses, bread making, sewing, cooking, swine, the acre yield corn contest for 



1914, bread making contests, planning a garden, outlines of work for 1914 and 



1915, and warm lunches for rural schools. 



Elements of forestry, F. F. Moon and N. C. Brown (New York: John Wiley 

 d- Sunx, 19JJf, pp. Xyil+3'J2. figs. 65). — This general text-book on forestry de- 

 fines and explains forestry, and discusses its need in the I'nited States and its 

 development here and abroad; the tree, its parts, functions, characteristics, 

 growth, etc. ; silvics ; silvicultural systems of management ; imin-ovement cut- 

 tings; artificial regeneration; forest protection and mensuration; lumbering; 

 wood utilizations, technology, and ])reservation ; and forest economics and 

 finance, followed by regional studies. An apiiendix gives the original and pres- 

 ent forest areas in the United States, uses of the principal American species, log 

 rules, etc., and a glossarj- of terms in forestry and logging. 



Helps for domestic science work in seventh and eighth grades, September- 

 October (Dcpt. Piih. Iiistr. [Ind.], Ed. Pubs:, Bill. 13 {lillJ,), pp. 2.5).— Sugges- 

 tions are given to village and rural teachers for introducing and carrying on 

 domestic science woi'k, and lessons are outlined for each week in the months of 

 September and October in cooking and the study of foods, sewing and the study 

 of clothing and textiles, and shelter, including projects and problems relating 

 to home and personal hygiene, care of the homo, home furnishing, decora- 

 tion, etc. 



Shumw^ay agricultural high schools: Suggestions for laying out and plant- 

 ing the school farm {Lim-olii, Xclir.: Drjjt. J'lib. Jiistr.. IDlJf. pp. 23, figs. 2).^ 

 Suggestions are given for laying out and planting the Ti-acre farms secured by 

 the high schools giving instruction in agriculture under the Shumway Act. The 

 plans are considered under the main headings of fertilizer contests, crop roto- 

 tions, continuous cropi>ing, a crop museum, a few simple tests with crops, cul- 

 tural field studies, the orchard, the family garden, and pathological demonstra- 

 tions. 



Some experiments for the garden, J. VV. Emery {Naturc-Stiidij Rev.. 10 

 (1914), Xo. 7, pp. 2S1-2S7). — According to the author an endeavor is being made 

 in Ontario to meet the chief obstacles to successful school gardening — scarcity 

 of laud, neglect during the long sunnner holidays, lack of broad knowledge on 

 the part of the teacher, and apathy or even active opposition on the part of the 

 trustees and parents — with home gardening, summer courses for teachers, and 

 the sending out of capable young men from the agricultural college to visit 

 every rural section, enlist the sympathies of the pai-ents, and give the teacher a 

 start in the work. The economic side of school gardening is to be emphasized, 

 and in this way it is hoped to find the solution to the jiroblem of rural depopu- 

 lation. The advantages of the introduction of systematic experimental work as 

 a sort of compromise between the purely cultural and the purely agricultural 

 aims of nature study are enumerated, and experiments outlined which have 

 l>een found to work out successfully in the neighborhood of the normal school at 

 Stratford, Ontario, and which are deemed possible in the poorest equipped 

 school. 



Should school gardens be made to show financial gains? E. S. Skll (Xatiire- 

 (■^tiidy Rev., 10 (/.''/)), Ao. 7. pp. 273-275).— The author calls attention to an 

 experiment he is making at the State Normal School at Athens. Ga.. to test the 

 theory that gardens should lie run in such a manner as to show financial gains 

 when ix)ssible. He maint.iins that it has been demonstrated " that a school 

 garden can be made to better serve the purpose when records are kept that 



