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employed teachers may acquire agricultural training, this bulletin contains 

 lists of institutions maintaining courses in agriculture in summer sessions, 

 institutions offering special short courses or extension courses in agriculture 

 for teachers, correspondence and reading courses in agriculture, and a suggested 

 reading course in agriculture based on Farmers' Bulletins and other free 

 publications of this Department. 



Subject matter in nature study and elementary agriculture {Cornell Rural 

 School Leaflet, 7 {1913), No. 1, pp. 212, figs. 165). — This publication presents 

 lists of subjects for 1913-14 in nature study and elementary agriculture as out- 

 lined in the New York State Syllabus. In addition to illustrative material for 

 a special study of birds, animals, insects, plants, and trees, charts are given 

 showing how a farm may be laid out and school grounds planted to trees, small 

 shrubbery, etc. 



Nature study and agriculture (In Course of Study of the Elementary 

 Schools of Oregon. Salem, Greg.: State Dept. of Ed., 1911, pp. 56-65). — This 

 is an outline of the optional work in nature study in the first to the fourth 

 grades, inclusive, and in agriculture in the seventh and eighth grades in one 

 class. 



Woodworking exercises for the ag-ricultural school shop, H. B. White 

 {Minne.'jota Sta. Bui. 135, pp. 39, figs. 35). — The greater part of this bulletin 

 consists of drawings and photographs showing the exact measurements of 30 

 exercises in carpentry work suitable for class work and not requiring the use 

 of machinery. The descriptive matter is practically limited to lists and tabu- 

 lated information. 



Demonstration-lectures in domestic science (foods and cooking), sewing, 

 and home nursing {Ontario Dept. Agr. Bui. 215, 1913, pp. 19, figs. 5). — Out- 

 lines of the courses are given, with a statement of some of the benefits derived 

 from such work. 



Sending the coUeg-e to the State {Mass. Agr. Col. Bui., 5 {1913), No. 5, 

 pp. 16). — This pamphlet describes briefly the extension methods adopted by the 

 ^Massachusetts Agricultural College, giving outlines of the various lines of work, 

 with suggestions as to how individual farmers may secure special information. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual Report of Guam Station, 1912 {Guam Sta. Rpt. 1912, pp. 29, pis. 6, 

 figs. 7). — This contains a summary of investigations by the special agent in 

 charge, for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Annual Heport of West Virginia Station, 1912 {West Virginia Sta. Rpt. 

 1912, pp. SOS, figs. 100). — This contains the organization list; a report of the 

 director on the organization, work, and publications of the station, including a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912; departmental re- 

 ports, the experimental work in which is for the most part abstracted elsewhere 

 in this issue; reports to December 30, 1911, of work under state appropriations 

 for the destruction of plant and insect pests and the promotion of the horticul- 

 tural and trucking industries, portions of which are abstracted elsewhere in 

 this issue ; and reprints of Bulletins 135-137 and 139-141 and Circular 5 previ- 

 ously noted, and of Circulars 4 and 6 noted elsewhere in this issue. 



A list of bulletins available for general distribution {West Virginia Sta. 

 Circ. 4i PP- 2). 



From the letter files of S. W. Johnson, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne 

 (New Haven, Conn., 1918, pp. 292, pis. 3). — Extracts from the letters and 

 earlier writings of the former director of the Connecticut State Experiment 

 Station, with a bibliography. Noticed editorially on page 1 of this issue. 



