1916] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 499 



was the culmination of the 1915 home-project work; and (5) records of a few 

 club members. 



The Indiana State Board of Education has decided that school authorities 

 be authorized to give credit for summer home-project work (club work) on 

 condition that a competent teacher be employed to give close supervision over 

 the work, that the quality or grade of work done and the time actually spent 

 on the project by the pupil be considered on the same basis as regular school 

 work, and that each pupil keep detailed records of time and other items of 

 cost and income and submit to the school authorities a full and complete report 

 of his work, subject to the inspection of the state department. 



Home education, Ellen C. Lombard {Rpt. Comr. Ed. [U. S.], 1915, I, pp. 

 361-369). — A review is given of the problems of the field of home education 

 in this country and its insular territories, and of the work of the different 

 Government agencies, the National Congress of Mothers, parent-teacher asso- 

 ciations, and the General Federation of Women's Clubs for the promotion of 

 home education outside of the school. 



The principles of plant culture, E. S. Goff {New York: The MacmiUan Co., 

 1916, 8. ed., pp. XXIII +295, figs. i?7).— This text, which is intended for 

 beginners in agriculture and horticulture and especially for students who have 

 liad little or no previous instruction in botany, was first published by the 

 author in 1897 (E. S. R., 8, p. 793) and has since undergone several revisions, 

 the present revision being by J. G. Moore and L. R. Jones. It is a systematic 

 study of plant culture which grew out of the author's experience in the lecture 

 room and laboratory while giving instruction to students in the short course 

 in agriculture in the University of Wisconsin. A syllabus of laboratory work 

 is appended and the preface includes a biographical sketch of the author, who 

 died in 1902. 



Courses in systematic vegetable gardening, P. Work (Proe. Soc. Hort. Set., 

 11 {1914), pp. 33-37). — The vegetable gardening courses offered at Cornell 

 University are described. 



Report of the committee on floricultural courses, A. C. Beal {Proc. Soc. 

 Hort. Sci., 11 {1914), pp. 40-43). — The author gives historical data on floricul- 

 tural teaching, the first floricultural courses, extending through four years, 

 having been offered in the School of Horticulture of the Illinois Industrial 

 University in 187.5-76. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Monthly Bulletin of the Ohio Experiment Station {Mo. Bui. Ohio Sta., 1 

 {1916), No. 5, pp. 129-160, figs. 8). — This contains several articles abstracted 

 elsevvhere in this issue; Wool Studies, by J. W. Hammond, an abridgment of 

 Bulletin 294 (see p. 477) ; Heavy Silage v. Heavy Grain, Feeding for Dairy 

 Cows, by C. C. Hay den, an abridgment of Bulletin 155 (E. S. R., 16, p. 811) ; 

 Controlling the Grape-berry Worm, by W. H. Goodwin, an abridgment of 

 Bulletin 293 (E. S. R., 35, p. 358) ; and the following special articles: Fruit-bud 

 Formation on Apple Trees, by A. D. Selby, and Shall We Fertilize Corn in the 

 Hill, by C. E. Thorne. 



Monthly Bulletin of the Western Washington Substation {Washington 

 Sta., West. Wash. Sta. Mo. Bui., 4 {1916), No. 3, pp. 16, figs. 3).— This number 

 contains brief articles on the following subjects: Notes on Bee Management, 

 by J. W. Ware; Rose Pests and Their Control, by J. L. Stahl; Summer Culti- 

 vation, by E. B. Stookey ; Milk-fed Chickens, by G. R. Shoup ; A Penny Saved 

 is a Penny Earned, by Mrs. G. R. Shoup ; and Experiment Station Dairy Barn, 

 a description of the dairy stable and shed at the substation. 



