390 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



As a result of this study, a new t3i>e of house was evolved called the New 

 Jersey Multiple Unit Ikying House, which is described iu detail. Studies of 

 this type are to be reported in a later bulletin. 



Housing farm poultry, B. Adler {Utah Sta. Circ. 14, pp. 15-32, figs. 9). — 

 This circular discusses some of the essentials of a good poultry house for Utah 

 conditions and offers detailed plans and bills of material for three houses in 

 which an attempt has been made to include these essentials. 



One room school buildings (Penn. Bd. Ed. Prelim. Bui, 1913, pp. 13, /j7.?. 

 10). — This bulletin presents suggestive standard plans and limited specifications 

 for the construction of one-room school buildings for rural and suburban dis- 

 tricts. These plans and specifications are said to conform to the modern prin- 

 ciples of lighting, heating, ventilation, and physical activity. 



The necessity of plumbing inspection in rural districts, ^Y. C. Groenigeb 

 (Mo. Bui. Ohio Bd. Health, 8 {1913), No. 10, pp. 900-906) .—This article deals 

 with rural sanitation, considering briefly the subjects of water supply and sew- 

 age disposal and making a few suggestions regarding the proper installation 

 and testing of plumbing. Attention is called to the many sources of pollution 

 of water supplies and the reader is particularly warned against locating the so- 

 called vrater-tight cesspool in the immediate neighborhood of wells or springs. 



Bacteriological tests of methods of cleaning, W. D. Frost and Miss V. A. 

 Armstrong {Addresses and Proc. Xat. Ed. Assoc, 49 {1911), pp. 985-990).— 

 Studies of the relative number of bacteria present w^hen floors are cleaned by 

 different methods are reported, the experimental method followed being 

 described. 



In connection with vacuum cleaners, the authors note that with permanently 

 installed systems bacteria are taken out of the rooms entirely, and, if the dis- 

 charge pipe is properly located, do not return to the rooms. With portable 

 cleaners, however, which discharge into the room, the larger or smaller num- 

 ber of bacteria pass from the container into the room, the number dei^nding 

 upon the kind of construction of the container, " hence they may' be an actual 

 menace to health. It is possible to obtain abundant data to warrant health 

 ofllcers forbidding the use of these machines by traveling cleaners, since it 

 must be very evident that if Bacillus prodigiosus can be carried from one room 

 to another, B. tuberculosis could be carried from one house to another." 



EURAL ECONOMICS. 



Our rural life and farm problems, S. A. Lindsey {U. S. Senate, 63. Cong., 2. 

 Sess., Doc. 334, i913, pp. 3-17). — The rural life problems as seen by the author 

 are principally due to the increase in tenantry, high rate of interest to farmers, 

 and wasteful methods of distributing farm crops. To overcome these obsta- 

 cles he suggests cooperation among farmers, rural credit, better transportation 

 facilities, and better rural homes and schools. 



How can a young man become a farmer, T. F. Hunt {Berkeley, Cal.: Univ. 

 Cat. [1913^, pp. 8). — The author considers that one of the factors in keeping 

 young men from becoming farm owners is the difiiculty in obtaining the neces- 

 sary capital. He suggests that postal savings deposits be lent to him at 3 per 

 cent and the debt be cancelled by a system of amortization. 



The needs of North Carolina farmers with regard to credits, marketing, 

 and cooperation {Rpt. Com. Appointed T)ij Gov. N. C. on Needs N. G. Farmers, 

 1913, pp. 13). — The commission announces as the principal need of the North 

 Carolina farmer a modification of the European system of credit adapted to 

 American conditions, so that a worthy citizen can buy land, drain it, and stock 

 it properly. 



