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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



[Vol. 41 



A new table is given, based upon the experimental data and designed for use 

 In estimating the weight of settled silage, as follows : 



Estimated weight of settled silage. 



Estimating silo capacities and silage weights, C. H. Eckles {Missouri Sta. 

 Circ. 89 (1919), pp. 4). — This circular is based on Bulletin 164 noted above. 



[Warehouse construction and fire protection], R. L. Newton and J. M. 

 Workman {U. 8. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1918, pp. 408-^16, figs. 4). — This section 

 of this article deals with the important factors In the design and construc- 

 tion of cotton warehouses, with special reference to protection against fire. 

 Fire fighting equipment is briefly described. 



Housing the worker on the farm, E. B. McCormick {U. S. Dept. Agr. Tear- 

 book 1918, pp. 347S56, figs. 8). — This is a general discussion of the sociological 

 phases of the subject, with plans for four houses and general layout plans 

 for farm buildings, with special reference to the house and laborers' house. 



The ideal servant-saving house (London: W. d R. Chambers, 1918, pp. 

 VI I +122, figs. 48). — It is the purpose of this book to show how servants can be 

 largely or entirely dispensed with, chiefly by the installation and use of better 

 heating and cooking appliances and other apparatus operated by electricity or 

 gas, specially designed to reduce the labor of the housewife to the smallest 

 possible dimensions and to free it from all disagreeable features." 



Septic tanks, J. P. Faiebank (Washington Sta., West. Wash. Sta. Mo. Bui., 

 7 (1919), No. 5, pp. 72-74, fig. 1). — Brief instructions are given for the construc- 

 tion of a sewage di-sposal system consisting of a siphon discharge septic tank 

 and aeration system, with special reference to conditions in western Wash- 

 ington. 



