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ruial life. A cuirieuluni, reconiiuen(l(Ml ■ by the Comuiittee on Training for 

 Riiial Leadersliip of the National Country Life ..Vssociation, and consisting of 

 a niinimuni uunilxn- of courses to he inchuled in the undergraduate worlj of 

 tbo.'^e preparing for rural service, is presented. The subjects include general 

 economics, general sociology, rural economics, rural sociology, rural leader- 

 ship, rural clinic, religious education, farm practice (for city youth), history 

 of religion, public speaking, English, public health, hygiene, journalism, rural 

 politics, psychology, and the Bible. Courses should also be selected In esthetics, 

 landscape gardening, art, music, home service, etc. It is stated that special 

 work along the lines recommended by this committee was begun at the opening 

 of the present college year at eight sectarian institutions and in connection with 

 the agricultural colleges at the universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Min- 

 nesota. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1919 (IJ. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Yearbook 1919, iip. 790, pi. 1, figs. 23?).— This contains the report of the Sec- 

 retly of Agriculture; 29 special articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue; 

 an appendix containing a directory of the agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations, the State officials in charge of agricultural and extension work, and 

 National and State live stock associations ; and the usual statistics of the 

 principal crops, farm animals and their products, the Federal meat inspection, 

 imports and exports of agricultural products, crop sunnnaries, estimated value 

 of farm products, world production and export trade in important crops, mis- 

 cellaneous information relating to various crops and to live stock, movement of 

 farm produce, prices paid by farmers for miscellaneous articles, information 

 I)ertaining to farm labor, farm and labor incomes, value of plow land by 

 States, sectional meat consumption in the United States, railway freight ton- 

 nage for 1915-18, farm tractors in the United States, wagon and motor-truck 

 hauls from farms to shipping points, rural and agricultural popufations and 

 area of agricultural land by countries, and area and utilization of the National 

 Forests. 



Forty-second Annual Report of North Carolina Station, 1019 {North 

 Carolina Sta. Rpt. 1919, pp. [265], pis. 13, figs. J,5).— This contains the organi- 

 zation list, a report of the director and heads of departments, a financial state- 

 ment for the year ended June 30, 1919, and reprintsjuof Bulletins 2.S9 and 241, 

 and Technical Bulletins 15 and 16, which have already been noted. The ex:- 

 perimental work is for the most part abstracted elsewhere In this issue. 



Monthly bulletin of the Western Washington Substation (Washington 

 Sta., West. Wash. Sta. Mo. Bui, 8 {1920), No. 3, pp. 33-.'f8).— In addition to an 

 article abstracted on page 436 of this issue, this number contains brief articles 

 on the following .subjects: Gardening Is Real Work, by J. L. Stahl ; Culling the 

 Conmiercial Flock, by Mr. and Mrs. G. *R. Shoup ; Insect Pests of the Home 

 Garden and Their Control, by A. Frank; and Notes on Bee Management, by 

 J. W. Ware. 



Publications available for free distribution {Idaho Sta. Circ. IS [1920). 

 pp. 2). 



[List of available publications of the Oklahoma Station 1 {Oklohoma Sta. 

 Circ. 46 {1919), p. 1). 



The research spirit in scientific institutions, B. Youngblood (Texas Sta., 

 Circ. 21 (1920), pp. 8, 4)- — A brief discussion of the research spirit and of 

 some of the more common criticisms applietl to .scientific workers. 



