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898 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOKD. 



2, pp. 121).— This, list contains the organization and personnel of tlie Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, including the agricultural edu- 

 cation service, agricultural education and research institutions, agricultural and 

 horticultural winter schools, itinerant agricultural and horticultural instructors, 

 and agricultural and horticultural associations in the Netherlands. 



Window gardening for schools, F. H. Cardozo {Bui. Fla. Agr. and Mech. 

 Col. for Negroes, 6 {1913), No. 1, pp. i9).— This reference text for teachers gives 

 directions for window flower and vegetable gardening. 



The Home Gardening Association {Ann. Rpt. Home Gard. A&soc. [Cleve- 

 Ifind], IS {1012), pp. 35, figs. ^8).— This report describes briefly the work done 

 y the association in 1912, and offers suggestions for children's gardens and 

 Information concerning the publications, history, seed distribution, etc., of the 

 association. 



Selecting and staging vegetables for exhibition {Nature Guard \_R. I. State 

 Col.'], Leaflet 100, 1913, pp. 29-32, fig. J).— Suggestions to boys and girls on the 

 selection, packing, shipping, and staging of specimens for exhibits of vegetables 

 at fairs and exhibitions. 



Woman's place in rural economy, P. De Vuyst, trans, by Nora Hunter 

 {London, GlasgoiD, and Bomhay, 1913, pp. XI +151). —This is an English trans- 

 lation of the revised edition of this book, previously noted (B. S. R., 18, p. 

 1094). 



Home economics at the New York State College of Agriculture, Martha 

 VAN Rensselaer {Cornell Reading Courses, 2 {1913), No. 31, pp. 120-152, figs. 

 11). — This lesson consists of a historical sketch and description of the work in 

 home economics at the New York State College of Agriculture, together with 

 suggestions concerning vocations open to students in home economics. 



Lessons in cooking for the sick and convalescent {Washington: U. S. Dept. 

 Int., 1913, pp. 32). — This bulletin, containing 12 theoretical and practical lessons 

 in cooking for the sick and convalescent, has been prepared for the use of the 

 cooking class of the nurses' training school in the Government Hospital for the 

 Insane, Washington, D. C. These lessons, consisting of recipes followed by 

 notes, are classified according to the comiwsition of the foods prepared. 



Suggestions for the dining room, Mabel Miskimen and Josephine Mat- 

 thews {Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. [Ohio State Univ.], 8 {1913), No. 10, pp. 16, figs. 

 IS), — Suggestions are given concerning the planning and serving of meals, etc. 



The educational museum at Clark University — catalogue of the depart- 

 ment of school hygiene, W. H. Burniiam and M. Evelyn Fitzsimmons {Re- 

 printed from Pedag. Seminary, 18 {1912), No. 4, PP- 526-552). — Nutrition, archi- 

 tecture and school sanitation, and similar subjects are included in this collec- 

 tion. The publication as a whole will prove of interest to those desiring to 

 install school museums, since it gives data regarding the general classification 

 and arrangement of material. 



Farmers' institute and agricultural extension work in the United States, 

 1912, .7. ILvmilton (17. S. Dept. Agr., Offiee Expt. Stas. Rpt. 1912, pp. 333-383).— 

 This is the annual report of the Farmers' Institute Specialist of this Office for 

 1912, concerning the work of the Office in promoting farmers' institutes and 

 the development of the farmers' institute movement in the different States and 

 Territories. It includes, among other things, not only the progress made during 

 the year with farmers' institutes for young people, womens' institutes, and 

 movable and correspondence schools, but an account of the annual meeting of 

 the American Association of Farmers" Institute Workers, extension work by 

 the agricultural colleges, itinerant work in teacliers' institutes and rurnl schools, 

 agricultural extension work in foreign countries, the principal points of prog- 



