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War work of women in colleges, I-II {Washington: Committee Pub. Inform. 

 [U. S.], 1918, [pts. 1]. pp. 11; 2, pp. 2i).— The first of these publications gives 

 a description of how the colleges for women met the war emergency, college 

 war courses, student war activities, and the employment of college-trained 

 women. The second contains supplementary information. It is not intended to 

 be a " complete survey of the college war work of the country, but is a repor- 

 torial account of news which has been sent to The Division on Woman's War 

 Work of the Committee on Public Information." 



Report of the division of extension in agriculture and home economics, 

 A. Agee et al. (Neio Jersey Stas. Rpt. 1917, pp. 211-309; X. J. Agr. Col. Ext. 

 Bui., 1 (1917), No. 13, pp. 94)- — This is a report on the organization and prog- 

 ress of the extension activities in New Jer.sey for 1917, including farm and home 

 demonstration work and boys' and girls' club work. Attention is called to the 

 reorganization of the county boards of agriculture on a community basis, accord- 

 ing to the plan originated last year, and their assumption of all local responsi- 

 bility for farm demonstration work. A suggested constitution and program of 

 work for county boards of agriculture are included. 



The essential features of a cooperative plan adopted in the boys' and girls' 

 club work between the State department of public instruction and the exten- 

 sion division of the agricultural college are outlined. It is provided that the 

 extension division is to direct and supervise all project work from the agricul- 

 tural and home economics point of view, and the department of public instruc- 

 tion is to have within its jurisdiction everything that pertains to the place that 

 club work shall have in the schools. All projects are to be outlined by the exten- 

 .sion division in cooperation with the county farm demonstrator and the county 

 superintendent of schools. 



Wisconsin wins: Annual report of the agricultural extension service for 

 1917-18, H. L. Russell and K. L. Hatch (Wisconsin Sta. Bid. 301 {1919), 

 pp. 2Jf, figs. 19). — This is a brief report on the activities of the extension service 

 in the 1917-18 food production campaign to achieve the production of more of 

 the essential vegetable foods, an increase of the supply of fats and animal foods, 

 a greater production of feed for animals and of food for man, and the bringing 

 of more acres under cultivation through drainage, land clearing, and conti'ol 

 of weeds, plant diseases, and insect pests. 



Agricultural training for returned soldiers: Preparatory and field in- 

 struction, W. J. Black {Agr. Gaz. Canada, 5 {1918), No. 12, pp. 1123-1126). — 

 An outline is given of a course of instruction, adopted by the Soldier Settle- 

 ment Board of Canada, to enable men without experience who desire to farm 

 to secure at least a general working knowledge of farming operations on train- 

 ing farms in Great Britain in the interval between the signing of peace and 

 tlie return of the men to Canada. 



Outline studies on the school garden, home garden, and vegetable growing 

 projects, O. J. Kekn {California Sta. [Pub.], 1919, pp. 6Jf, figs. 32). — This is a 

 reprint of part of the syllabi the author has worked out in his course for 

 teachers on the elements of agricultural nature study and school and home 

 gardening in the University of California. 



Agricultural laboratory exercises and home projects adapted to secondary 

 schools, H. J. Waters and J. D. Elliff {Boston: Ginn d Co., 1919, pp. VI +218, 

 figs. 160). — This manual contains outlines of 96 laboratory exercises dealing 

 with plant life and growth, the soil and its management, field and orchard 

 crops, insects and plant diseases and their control, breeds and types of farm 

 animals, feeding farm animals, and farm equipment and machinery, together 

 with outlines of five production projects and two soil, demonsti"ation, and 



