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A study of rural school conditions in Ohio, V. M. Riegel (Columbus, Ohio: 

 Supt. Pub. Instr., 1920, pp. 175, figs. 59). — This is a study of rural school prog- 

 ress in Ohio which, it is stated, has been very marked during the past live years 

 since the enactment of the school code of 1914 which made adequate provision 

 for the administration and supervision of rural schools. It deals with legislative 

 history, the one-room school, the 1913 school survey, supervision, centralization 

 and consolidation, community activities and extension work of schools, includ- 

 ing agriculture and home economics, as a result of supervision under the new 

 code, the rural high school, and the purposes and activities of the modern 

 rural schools of the Bowling Green State Normal College. 



Efficient method of teaching commercial poultry finishing work to stu- 

 dents in agricultural colleges, B. F. Kaupp and J. E. Ivey (Jour. Amer. Assoc. 

 Instr. and Invest. Poultry Husb., 6 {1920), No. 8, pp. 46, Ifl, pis. 2).— A brief 

 description is given of the method followed at the North Carolina State College 

 of Agriculture and Engineering of giving students practical feeding work with 

 the theoretical teaching in the finishing of poultry for market. 



Farm gardening as a vocation, W. J. Quick {Fed. Bd. Vocat. Ed., Rehabil. 

 Ser., No. 44 {1920), pp. 24, flffs. 9). — This monograph is intended to aid disabled 

 soldiers, sailors, and marines in choosing a vocation. It calls attention to 

 gardening oppoi'tunities and cooperative benefits and discusses briefly home, 

 market, city, and farm gardening or truck farming. 



The school garden as a means of education, R. P. Snyder {Brooklyn Bot. 

 Gard. Rcc, 9 {1920), No. 3, pp. 91-100). — The author discusses the value of gar- 

 den work as a means of education in mind and character training and develop- 

 ment, and of interesting pupils in and teaching them about practical agriculture. 



A covirse of practical chemistry for agricultural students, L. F. Newman 

 and H. A. D. Neville {Cambridge, England: Univ. Press, 1920, vol. 1, pp. 235). — 

 This volume treats of the chemistry and physics of the soil and is intended to 

 cover the first year's work of the course. It is designed primarily for the use 

 of students taking the course for the degree in agricultural science at Cambridge 

 University. 



Elementary agricultural chemistry, H. Ingle {London: Charles Griffin d 

 Co., Ltd., 1920, 3. ed., rev., pp. IX +250, figs. 5). — This is the third edition of 

 this text, previously noted (E. S. R., 21, p. 192), in which only a few minor cor- 

 rections and additions have been made. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Thirty-second Annual Report of Kentucky Station, 1919, Part 1 {Ken- 

 tucky Sta. Rpt. 1919, pt. 1, pp. 64, figs. 4). — This contains the organization list, 

 a financial statement as to the Federal funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 1919, a report of the director on the work and publications of the year, and 

 meteorological data. The experimental work reported is for the most part ab- 

 stracted elsewhere in this issue. 



General report, North Central Experiment Station, Grand Rapids, 

 1915—1919 {Minnesota Sta., Rpt. Grand Rapids Substa., 1915-1919, pp. 80, 

 flgs. SO). — This is a summary of the work of this substation from 1915 to 1919. 

 The experimental data reported are for the most part abstracted elsewhere in 

 this issue. 



