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conditions pertaining to the marketing of live stoclj, determining the feasibility 

 of improving marketing methods and facilities, and promoting a better under- 

 standing among the various interests connected with the industry. The discus- 

 sion covered the different phases of the production and distribution of live stock 

 and live-stock products, beginning with the live-stock producers and ending 

 with the retail trade. 



Statistical information relating to stocks, cotton, grain, provisions, live 

 stock, and seeds, 1915 {Chicago: Hoioarcl, Bartels tt- Co., 1915, pp. 54). — In this 

 report are included Chicago's grain inspection rules and the daily movement and 

 prices of agricultural products at Chicago for 1915, together with data showing 

 by comparison the monthly movement for earlier years. Data are also given 

 relative to the crops and trade in the principal foreign countries. 



Resources of ISTebraska (NeJ)r. Dept. Labor Bui. 31 [1916], pp. 167).— This 

 report contains data showing the mortgages released and filed during the year, 

 the surplus shipments of agricultural produce, and brief topographic notes as 

 to soils by counties. 



AGPtlCULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education, A. C. Monahan and O. H. Lane {Rpts. Comr. Ed. 

 [U. S.], 1914, I, pp. 291-318; 1915, I, pp. 295-316).— A review is given of the 

 progress in agricultural education in 1913-14 and 1914-15 in the agi'icultural 

 colleges and normal, .secondary, and elementary schools in the United States, 

 agi'icultural education at meetings of the year, educational work of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, and the principal developments of agricultural edu- 

 cation in other countries. 



Agricultural and mechanical colleges (Rpt. Comr. Ed. [U. S.], 1914, II, 

 pp. 211-314). — This is a compilation from official sources of statistics of the 

 land-grant colleges with reference to faculties, students, courses of study, value 

 of funds and equipment, revenues, additions to equipment, etc., together with a 

 summary of statistics for the years 1S91-2 to 1913-14 and a summary of legis- 

 lative acts and appropriations in 1914 in various States. 



Home economics, Henrietta W. Calvin and Carrie A. Lyford (Rpt. Comr. 

 Ed. [V. S.], 1915, I, pp. 311-343) .—FoUowing a review of the series of four 

 bulletins on Education for the Home, by B. R. Andrews (E. S. R., 33, p. 397), 

 the authors report on home-economics instruction in state colleges, universities, 

 normal schools, summer schools, and public and rural schools, state supervision, 

 state courses of study, textbooks for home economics teaching, use of apartments 

 or houses in public-school teaching, cafeterias as practice places for home- 

 economics teaching, rural-school luncheons and lessons in food preparation, con- 

 tinuation schools and home economics for adult women, home-economics educa- 

 tion for colored students, laws affecting home-economics instruction, home- 

 economics associations, and tendencies and developments in home economics. 



Education for the home, B. R. Andrews {Rpt. Comr. Ed. [U. S.], 1914, I, 

 pp. 319-344)- — This report deals with the subject matter and method in educa- 

 tion for the home, the status and program of education for the home, including 

 fundamental principles and the various points in our school system and social 

 organizations in which they find expression, and local progress in education 

 for the home in elementary and high schools, practical household arts work in 

 public schools, vocational classes, normal schools, and colleges. 



Education for child nvirture and home making outside of schools, Mrs. F. 

 ScHOFF {Rpt. Comr. Ed. [V. .<?.], 1914. I, PP- 363-374).— This is a review of 

 what is being done in the education for child nurture and home maki!),;r I.y 

 organizations interested in this work, and of home education extension work 

 of high and normal schools and colleges. 



