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should also serve as a guide to the farmer and city man practicing horticulture 

 about the home, as it treats the subject from the standpoint of production of 

 horticultural products as well as improvements for the home. The following 

 subjects are dealt with : Planning the home garden, the seed, hotbed and cold 

 frame, cultivation and tillage, plant propagation, budding, grafting, and prun- 

 ing, plant pests, spray machinery and materials, harvesting and marketing, 

 the winter protection of plants, the strawberry, bush fruits, the brambles, the 

 grapo, pome fruits, stone fruits, citrus fruits, and beautifying the home 

 grounds. Lists of shrubs which can be used as guides for the various geo- 

 graphical regions in this country are appended. 



Productive sheep husbandry, W. C. Coffey (Philadelphia and London: J. B. 

 TAppincott Co., 1918, pp. X+Jil9, pi. 1, figs. 262).— This manual of sheep hus- 

 bandry comprises seven parts dealing respectively with the history of sheep 

 raising and breeding, structure and judging, breeds, the management of the 

 flock, sheep feeding, sheep management on the ranges in the Western States 

 and buildings and equipment for farm flocks, and preparing mutton on the 

 farm. 



Vocational agriculture in hig-h schools. Animal husbandry series No. 1: 

 Some suggestions as to the subject of dairy husbandry, T. H. Katon (State 

 Bd. Ed. Conn. Bui. 19 [1919], pp. 28).— This bulletin deals with the content, 

 organization, and method of instruction in dairying in the high schools in 

 Connecticut. The suggestions are designed for a treatment of dairy husbandry 

 to make use of at least one-half of the total time given to the agricultural 

 course for the year. 



Trees, stars, and birds: A book of outdoor science, E. L. Moseley (Yonkers- 

 on-Hudson, N. T.: World Book Co., 1919, pp. X+404, pis. 16, figs. 2^4).— This is 

 a nature-study book written in language simple enough for students in the 

 sixth or seventh grades. 



Housewifery: A manual and textbook of practical housekeeping, L. R. 

 Balderston (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1919, pp. [Vn'\-\-S53, pi. 1, 

 figs. 175). — This book Is the outgrowth of many years of experience in house- 

 keeping and in teaching housewifery to groups of practical housekeepers, with 

 emphasis upon the technical processes of the home. Its purpose is to help the 

 individual homewoman and to serve as a text for study groups of rural exten- 

 sion and other clubwomen and in the housekeepers' courses given by schools 

 and colleges. Among the subjects discussed are housewifery as a business, 

 plumbing, heating and lighting, equipment and labor-saving appliances, house- 

 hold supplies and furnishings, storage, cleaning and care of rooms, beds, bath- 

 room, kitchen, and metals, cleaning and renovation, disinfectants and fumi- 

 gants, and household pests. Each chapter is followed by references to helpful 

 literature. Suggestions for teachers with reference to methods of teaching, 

 including practice work, an outline of a course of lessons in housewifery as 

 given in a regular high school with a practice department, and a more detailed 

 outline of lessons for use in schools, settlements, or other special classes or in 

 rural-extension work are included. 



Industrial work for boys, A. E. Pickard (St. Paul, Minn.: Wehb Pub. Co.., 

 1917, pp. 145, figs. 113).— This book includes, among others, chapters on home 

 projects in woodwork ; home credit for work in agriculture, including soil 

 study, a miniature farm with suggestive rotations, germination tests, garden 

 work, weed, insect, and wood collections, study of birds and rodents, study of 

 machinery, stock and grain judging, apple-tree grafting, and strawberry rais- 

 ing; and contests and club work, including corn, potato, tomato, poultry, and 

 pig contests, canning as club work, savings banks, keeping accounts, and an 



