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institutions, agricultural and horticultural winter schools and courses, itinerant 

 instructors, and associations in the Netherlands in 191G. 



Hig-h-school courses in Agriculture, S. H. Dadisman and G. M. Wilson 

 {lotca State Col., Schools Circ. 5 {1916), pp. 56). — This bulletin outlines 

 a four-year course in agriculture for high schools comprising instructiou in 

 farm animals for one year, in farm crops, horticulture, poultry, and farm man- 

 agement one-half year each, in farm mechanics two-fifths of a year, and in 

 soils three-fifths of a year. A suggestive schedule for one, two, three, and four 

 year courses, laboratory and field exercises and home products, and references 

 to helpful literature are included. It is stated that the outlines have been pre- 

 pared to assist the high-school teachers of Iowa in organizing agi'icultural in- 

 struction on a thoroughly i)ractical basis. 



Illustrated lecture on leguminous forage crops for the South, C. V. Pipkr 

 and H. B. IIenurick {U. S. Dept. Ayr., States Relat. Serv. Syllabus 24 (1917), 

 pp. 16). — The authors discuss the distinguishing characteristics of the legumi- 

 nous plants, the function of root nodules and nodule bacteria, inoculation, the 

 relation of legunes to cropping systems, commendable cropping .systems, the 

 utilization of leguminous crops, legumes as green manures, and the principal 

 leguminous crops for the South. A list of fifty lantern slides to illustrate the 

 syllabus Is appended. 



Illustrated lecture on leguminous forage crops for the North, C. V. Piper 

 and H. B. Hendrick (U. S. Dcpt. Apr., statis lid. Serv. Syllabus 25 

 (1917), pp. 18). — This syllabus corre.spouds in treatment to that for the South, 

 noted above, but deals with the principal leguminous crops for the North. A 

 list of 45 lantern slides to illustrate the lecture is appended. 



Types and market classes of live stock, H. \V. Vaughan (Columbus, Ohio: 

 R. G. Adams and Co., 1916. pp. U^, pi. 1, figs. ii7).— This text consists of a 

 study of the type.s, carcasses, breetling for market and other purjioses, markets, 

 and jiroducts of cattle, sheep, swine, and horst^. The arrangement of the sub- 

 ject matter corrosponils to the order usually followed in teaching, but may be 

 varied, as the study of each class of animals is complete in itself. A loose-loaf 

 edition of the text has been used at the beginning of the work in animal hus- 

 bandry at the Ohio State I'niverslty during the past three years. 



[Nature study and elementary agriculture in Georgia] (In Manual Ga. 

 Teachers, 1916. pp. 168-20.i, flys. 3). — This manual includes the following arti- 

 cles: (1) Nature Study and Agriculture, liy U. J. H. DeLoach, which discusses 

 the objects and results of nature study and its relation to agriculture, and the 

 true conception of agriculture as a subject to be taught in the common schools, 

 end outlines i)ractical les.sons in nature study; (2) School Clubs, by M. L. Dug- 

 pnn and supervisors, giving directions for the organization and work of boys' 

 and girls' clubs; and (3) Easy Experiments in Agriculture. 



Class projects for agriculture students, \V. S. Wei.i.es (Hirer Falls, ^Ms.: 

 State Normal School, 1916, pp. 19). — Class projects are outlined in weeds and 

 seed inspection, marketing, agricultural pedagogy, economic entomology, agri- 

 cultural biology, feeds and feeding, field crops, farm management, dai^ving, 

 farm mechanics, soils, and animal husbandry. 



Hetee projects in agriculture for Michigan high schools and school 

 credits, W. H. French (ilich. Agr. Col., Dcpt. Agr. Ed. Bui. 11 (1916), pp. 15. 

 fig. 1).— The author discusses suitable home projects for students in agricul- 

 ture in public high schools and offers suggestions and recoiumendatlous with 

 reference to proper school credit for such project work. 



Practical arts below the seventh grade ([Indianapolis]: State Supt. J'ub. 

 Instr., 1916-17, pp. S5). — This is an outline in agriculture, domestic science. 



