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792 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Chemistry and its relations to daily life, L. Kahlenberg and E. B. Hakt 

 {New York, WIS, pp. VII+393, pi. 1, figs. i29).— This book is intended to rep- 

 resent a year's work for students of agriculture and home economics in sec- 

 ondary schools. The aim has been to make the subject matter thoroughly 

 practical in character, with a maximum of useful facts and a minimum of 

 theory. 



One chapter is devoted to laboratory experiments, and lists of apparatus 

 and chemicals and review questions are given at the end of each chapter. 



Home economics — a bibliography for high schools ^Pullman, Wash., 1913, 

 pp. 23). — This pamphlet was prepared by the department of home economics 

 of the State College of Washingtou. To the bibliography is added the outline 

 of a four-year high school course in home economics. 



List of references on home economics (U. 8. Bur. Ed. [Pub.], 1913, pp. 8). — 

 This publication contains an annotated bibliography with titles grouped under 

 the headings of general, elementary schools, rural schools, secondary schools, 

 and colleges and universities. A list is also given of the periodicals indexed 

 in the bibliography. 



Domestic science in the high school, Berth a Latta (Purdue Univ. Dept. 

 Agr. Ext. Bui. 7, 1912, pp. 12, figs. 2). — This bulletin consists of 100 lessons, 

 including recitations and laboratory exercises of 85 minutes each, in the study 

 of foods, and an outline of the equipment used in the high school of Colum- 

 bus, Ind. 



Domestic science in rural communities, Lucy B. Hawk {Purdue Univ. 

 Dept. Agr. Ext. Bui. 8, 1912, pp. 12, figs. 2). — An outline is given of the course 

 followed and the equipment used in the study of food in the Mooresville, Ind., 

 high school. 



Approved methods for home laundering, Mary B. Vail (Hampton Leaflets, 

 6 (1913), No. 11, pp. JfO, figs. 22). — ^A discussion of home laundering and laundry 

 aids. 



Principles of bookkeeping and farm accounts, J. A. Bexell and F. G. 

 Nichols (Neic York, Cincinnati, Chicago [1913], pp. ISJf, figs. 60). — The aim 

 of this volume is to supply the need of a text-book to be used in introducing 

 bookkeeping and business methods in both graded and ungraded schools where 

 there are boys and girls who are looking forward to agriculture as a life work. 



School and home gardens, W. H. D. Meier (Boston, Chicago, Neiv York, and 

 London [1913], pp. V+319, pi. 1, figs. 157). — This book is designed especially 

 as a text-book for grammar grades in schools having school gardens. It gives 

 definite instructions for arranging, planting, and caring for plants commonly 

 grown in the house, yard, and garden. It also points out a number of dif- 

 ficulties which usually confront the student in plant cultivation and gives definite 

 directions for obviating or overcoming them. 



Boys' pig clubs in Alabama, C. S. Jones (Educational Ex., 28 (1913), No. 7, 

 pp. 28, 29). — This article briefly outlines the objects and lines of work of these 

 clubs, and of their relations to corn clubs and the farmers' cooperative demon- 

 stration work. 



Each member must care for at least one pig, and keep records of the feed 

 given and gain in weight. Prizes are given on the basis of (1) the best pure 

 bred pig, (2) the best grade pig, (3) the greatest daily gains of pigs, cheapest 

 cost of production, and best records, and (4) the best hog judge. 



Proceedings of the seventeenth annual meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion of Farmers' Institute Workers, edited by W. H. Beal and J. Hamilton 

 . y (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Bui. 256, pp. 89).— A detailed report of the 

 y proceedings of the meeting held at Atlanta, Ga., November 11-13, 1912, which 

 has been previously noted (E. S. R., 28, p. 94), includuig the paper noted on 

 page 790, 



