1919] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 697 



pp. 252, figs. 236). — This book includes outlines of 27 lessons in plant production, 

 5 lessons in animal production, and 1 each in rural economy and the friends 

 and enemies of the farmer. Each lesson is followed by review questions, prob- 

 lems, and references to the literature. 



How to teach agriculture in the primary school, C. Pebret (Comment Enr 

 seigner I'Agrimltnre a VEcole Primaire. Paris: J. B. BailUere & Sons, 1910, 

 pp. 96, figs. 33). — The author states the object and method to be employed in 

 agricultural instruction in the primary ^cllool, including suggestions for the 

 establishment of a school museum, class experiments, and different ways of 

 demonstrating plant growth, viz, in pots, in water, in the school garden, in the 

 school yard, in demonstration plats, in experiment fields, and in different kinds 

 of soils. 



The Allerey Handbook (Beaime, France: Amer. E. F. Univ., 1919, pp. [/F] + 

 263). — This book outlines 14 coui'ses in agriculture prepared by the instructors 

 of the American E. F. University Farm School at Allerey, Saone-et-Loire, 

 France (B. S. R., 41, p. 106), and given in the school. The subjects dealt with 

 are buildings and equipment ; field crops, manure and fertilizers, and soils ; 

 dairying, types and breeds, feeding and management ; poultry ; fruit growing ; 

 vegetable gardening; agricultural geography, rural sociology, marketing and 

 cooperation, and farm management. 



Horticulture, K. C. Davis (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1919, pp. VII-^- 

 416, pi. 1, figs. 287). — This textbook for high and normal schools deals with 

 plant propagation and breeding, gardening, orcharding, small fruit growing, 

 forestry, beautifying home grounds, and the soils and enemies involved. To 

 aid in making the teaching as concrete as possible, numerous suggestions for 

 questionnaires, surveys, local investigations, practicums, field and laboratory 

 exercises, field trips, home projects, etc., are included at the close of the chap- 

 ters, together with review questions and references to literature. An appendix 

 contains a brief list of horticultural works for school libraries, and useful data 

 with reference to suitable distances and varieties for planting, losses in crop 

 removals, sources of plant food, etc. 



Mainly the pedagogy of seeds with some seeds of pedagogy, W. G. Vinal 

 (Nature-Study Rev., 15 (1919), No. 6, pp. 213-232, figs. 2).— Suggestions are 

 offered for making educational measurements with seeds, and on methods of 

 teaching seed germination and disper,sal, mounting seeds for class use, and 

 studying seed folk lore, omens, and charms. 



Outlines of course of instruction in agricultural nature study for the rural 

 schools of California, O. J. Kern (California Sta. [Pub.], 1919, pp. 55, figs. 

 60). — The material outlined in this publication is grouped under four general 

 topics, viz, human needs, interests, and activities ; plant and animal life, respec- 

 tively, throughout the year ; and natural phenomena and the inorganic world 

 and soil studies. The matter represents part 3 of the syllabi worked out by the 

 author in his course of instruction on the elements of agricultural natui'e study 

 and school and home gardening, given in the University of California. Parts 

 1 and 2 have been previously noted (E. S. R., 41, p. 95). 



Some considerations in teaching a bird course, J. M. Sha\'er (Nature-Study 

 Rev., 15 (1919), No. 2, pp. 53-57). — The author outlines a scheme for field work 

 with birds, and offers suggestions for laboratory work. 



Our southern birds, E. B. IMiles (Chicago: National Book Co., 1919, pp. 17 4, 

 pi. 1, figs. 89). — This is a nature study book on southern birds for the non- 

 scientific student. 



Productive poultry husbandry, H. R. Lewis (Philadelphia and London: J. 

 B. Lippincott Co., 191S, 3. ed., rev. and enl., pp. XXII-\-574, pi. 1, figs. 237). — 

 Chapters on business management, and judging and culling fowls for egg pro- 



