1917] AGRICULTTJEAL EDUCATION. 795 



of a 1-unit course in general agriculture, which may, however, be enlarged upon 

 and used in schools teaching two or more units. Each outline is followed by 

 eight school exercises with directions for their performance, which may be 

 given as a demonstration by the teacher or worked by groups or individuals, 

 and which should be reported by the pupils in notebooks; also suggested field 

 trips and home projects and home work, and lists of books and references. A 

 monthly calendar for community projects is included. 



Practical education: A home library of fourteen books in one, P. G. 

 HoLDEN, E. J. McFadden, and O. T. Beight (Chicago: The W. E. Richardson 

 Co., Inc., 1917, pp. 521, figs. 89). — This text presents a plan for the cooperation 

 of parent and teacher in organizing and conducting over 20 home school clubs. 

 It includes directions for growing vegetables, fruit, and flowers in school-home 

 gardens, raising poultry, pigs, and rabbits, keeping bees, cow testing and dairy 

 work, stock judging, practical farm arithmetic and farm accounting, social 

 center work, salesmanship and business efficiency, and outlines of work in sew- 

 ing, cooking, canning, and home building, as well as suggestions to the teacher 

 for correlating this work with other school subjects. 



School and home gardens, T. I. Maibs {Penn. State Col., School Bui. 5 11917}, 

 pp. 28, figs. 22). — This bulletin contains a brief history of children's gardens 

 and an enumeration of advantages that may be derived from children's gardens, 

 an outline of a suggested classification of gardens based upon the purposes 

 emphasized, suggestions with reference to gardens for schools in the country 

 where probably for the most part the home garden should take the place of the 

 school garden, selecting the site and crops, the size of the garden, and the 

 preparation of the land, rules governing a garden contest for the high school, a 

 home garden planting table, a form of records for a garden contest, plans of a 

 model school garden prepared for the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and references 

 to literature on gardening. 



Home project at an agricultural school, C. H. Lane (High School Quart. 

 [Ga.], 5 {1917), No. 4, pp. 265-267 ) .—This is a brief statement of the home- 

 project work required of students during the vacation between the second and 

 third years of the 3-year courses in agriculture and horticulture for farm boys 

 offered at the college of agriculture of the Ohio State University. These courses 

 are complete in themselves and do not offer preparation for any of the four-year 

 curricula, nor are they accredited toward a degree on any of these curricula. 



Productive plant husbandry, K. C. Davis {Philadelphia and London: J. B. 

 Uppincott Co., 1917, pp. XVI +462, pi. 1, figs. 312).— This textbook for high 

 schools treats the subjects of plant propagation and breeding, soils, field crops, 

 gardening, fruit growing, forestry, insects, plant diseases, and farm manage- 

 ment. Field and laboratory exercises, including suggestions for home projects, 

 and references to literature for supplementary reading are given at the close 

 of each chapter. One school year is allowed for the completion of the studies 

 and exercises, and a preliminary study of botany is not considered essential to 

 the understanding of the lessons. 



Agricultural botany, W. WnrrNET {School Set. and Math., 17 {1917), No. 6, 

 pp. 488-494). — The author considers briefly the principles which should underlie 

 the construction of a course in botany, and outlines whole year and half-year 

 suggestive courses in agricultural botany in which the order of topics is deter- 

 mined so far as practicable by the season. 



Feed manual and notebook, F. W. Woll {Philadelphia and London: J. B. 

 Lippincott Co., 1917, pp. 1S7). — This manual, which has been prepared for 

 students in agricultural schools and colleges, consists of exercises (1) relating 

 to the value of the common feeding stuffs used in this country, their chemical 

 composition and digestibility, methods of preparation, examination for purity, 



