598 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Elementary agriculture, W. L. Nida (Chicago [1913], pp. VI+228+VII~ 

 XXXV, pi. 1, figs. 109).— Thi^ is a book for the fifth and sixth grades. It 

 begins with animal life, describing the different breeds of farm stock and their 

 usefulness, and subsequently takes up how to produce the best crops through 

 the use of fertilizers, tillage, and rotation ; how to distinguish between friends 

 and foes in the insect and bird kingdoms; how to engage profitably in dairying, 

 gardening, bee keeping, and poultry raising; and how to preserve the fruits 

 of the harvest for winter use. There are special chapters on farm sanitation 

 and country roads. 



School gardening, L. B. Hyde, edited by T. W. Sanders [London, 1913, pp. 

 lO-'h pi. 1, figs. 68). — This is a simple book for teaching the rudiments of 

 practical horticulture in a clear and concise form in the elementary schools. 

 It gives directions for laying out plats, propagating and cultivating fruits, 

 flowers and vegetables, and indoor school gardening. A series of typical ques- 

 tions on the contents is added. 



Textiles — a handbook for the student and the consumer, Mary S. Woolman 

 and Ellen B. McGowan (New York, 1913, pp. J/+428, pi. 1, figs. i37).— This 

 volume, which is intended " as a text-book for college classes or for study clubs 

 and as a guide for the housekeeper or individual consumer of textiles and 

 clothing, the teacher, the club woman, the saleswoman, and as an introductory 

 survey of the subject for the student who contemplates professional work in 

 the textile industries," is based upon the authors' experience in teaching tex- 

 tiles to college students. Such subjects are included as the beginning of the 

 textile industries, spinning and weaving, woolen and w^orsted (raw materials 

 and manufacture), cotton, silk, linen and minor fibers, consumer's judgment of 

 textiles, microscopic and chemical study of textile fibers, dyeing of textile 

 fibers, laundry notes, hygiene of clothing, some economic and social aspects, 

 and clothing budgets. The volume contains a bibliography and glossary as 

 well as an index. 



The training of boys in cooking after leaving school, C. H. Senn (Jour. 

 Roy. Sanit. Inst., 34 (1913), No. 11, pp. 522-526).— The author outlines the 

 qualifications of a chef and states how boys are trained to become cooks in 

 England and France. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-sixth Annual Report of Indiana Station, 1913 (Indiana St a. Rpt. 

 1913, pp. 88). — This contains the organization list, reports of the director and 

 heads of departments, the experimental features of which are for the most 

 part abstracted elsewhere in this issue, and a financial statement for the state 

 funds for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1913, and for the remaining funds 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913. 



Twenty-second Annual Report of Oklahoma Station, 1913 (OklaJwma 

 Sta. Rpt. 1913, pp. 112, figs. 18). — This contains the organization list, a brief 

 report by the director, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 1913, departmental reports, the experimental features of which are for the most 

 part abstracted elsewhere in this issue, an article on The Poisoning of Cattle in 

 the Pasture, noted on page 584, and reprints of Bulletin 95. section 2 of Bul- 

 letin 99, and Circular 15, all of which have been previously noted. 



Twenty-fifth Annual Report of Rhode Island Station, 1912 (Rlwde Island 

 ma. Rpt. 1912, pp. 185-241+VI). — This contains the organization list, a report 

 of the director, including meteorological observations and notes on experi- 

 mental work for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue, and a finan- 

 cial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912. 



