1916] AGKICULTURAI, EDUCATIOK. 93 



Agriculture for school and farm, I, J. ]\I. Napier, W. H. Baeton, and W. P. 

 Stewakt (Clemfion Ayr. Col. K. C, Ext. Die. [Pub.^, 1915, July, pp. 129, figs. 

 35). — This volume consists of a compilation of questions and answers giviiiLc 

 simple information on soils, plants, and animals for use in the elementary 

 schools of South Carolina. It is designed to assist the teacher in learning 

 elementary practical agriculture while teaching it and is also suggested as a 

 text for use in farmers' night schools for adults. A dramatization of a 

 dialogue entitled Agriculture and the Farmer is appended. 



Elements of farm, practice, A. D. and E. W. Wilson (i?t. Paul, Minn.: 

 Webb Publishing Co., 1915, pp. 347, pi. 1, figs. 153). — This book is a complete 

 revision and extension of the authors' Agriculture for Young Folks (E. S. R., 

 23, p. 798). It deals largely with common farm practices rather than with 

 scientific principles, and has been prepared primarily for use in rural schools 

 and for elementary classes in other schools. The subjects considered include 

 soils, crops, common weeds and their eradication, the garden, fruit on the farm, 

 plant diseases and insect pests, live stock, feeds and feeding, dairying, poultry, 

 birds, and bees, agricultural engineering, community activities, the farm home, 

 and farm management. Each section is a complete reading lesson followed by 

 questions and examples, so that it may be used to replace a part of the regular 

 leading, language, and arithmetic lessons. 



Soils courses at the Iowa State College, P. E. Brown {Jour. Amer. Soc. 

 Aijron., 8 {191G), No. 1, pp. 42-^7). — A description of the laboratory work in 

 soils at the Iowa College is given, together with a brief statement of the de- 

 velopment of the soils work at this institution. Prior to 1902 this consisted of 

 one brief course in soil i)hysics, but in that year was organized as a subdivision 

 of the agronomy department with four distinct courses in soil physics, soil fer- 

 tility, special problems in soil physics, and special problems in soil fertility. 

 These courses have formed the foundation for the present courses, numbering 

 about 30, for unilergraduate and graduate students in agriculture, and classified 

 as soil pliysics, soil A-rtilily, soil bacteriologj% soil surveying, and soil manage- 

 ment. 



The preparation of material for field crops laboratory, W. O. AVhitcomb 

 (Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron., 8 (1916), No. 1, pp. 38-41, pis. 2). — Suggestions based 

 on a three-year study of the problem at the Montana College, are offered for 

 collecting, pressing, and preparing mounted material for the field-crops lab- 

 oratory. 



Seed testing (Cornell Rural School Leaflet, 9 (191G), No. 3, pp. 403--', IS, figs. 

 5). — Directions ai'e given for testing seeds for purity and viability and for 

 making the necessary apparatus. 



Laboratory experiments on food products, E. H. S. Baii.ey (Philadelpliia: 

 P. Blakisto7i's Son and Co., 1915, pp. YI-\-44)- — These experiments are de- 

 signed especially for use with the author's text. The Source, Chemistry, and 

 Use of Food Products (E. S. R., 32, p. 353), but are a<lapted for use with any 

 course on the composition of food. They deal primarily with the raw and 

 manufactured food materials as found in the field, the market, and the pro- 

 vision store, and enable the student to determine the composition of ordinary 

 food materials and how they are sometimes adulterated and mislabeled. 



Twenty lessons on poultry keeping, C. T. Pattekson (Philadelphia and 

 London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1916, pp. X+92, pi. 1, figs. 55).— This is an ele- 

 mentary treatise prepared under the direction of the American I'oultry Associa- 

 tion for the use of teachers and pupils in the public schools. Tlie lessons treat 

 of the origin and history, nomenclature, characteristics, breeils and varieties, 

 judging, enemies and diseases, and care and management of fowls. 



