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tion to the lack of adequate means for giving vocational training in agriculture 

 to young people in the rural districts after they leave the public schools and 

 before they enter upon their life occupations. As a partial remedy for this the 

 authors recommend the organization of boys' and girls' clubs for children of 

 public school age, and of farmers' institutes for young people for those who 

 have left the public schools, the young people's institutes to become the con- 

 necting link between the agricultural club movement by the school and the regu- 

 lar farmers' institutes for adults. 



A discussion of the method of instruction best adapted to giving vocational 

 information, subjects for institute study, directions for contests, systematic 

 course in contest work, prizes, boys' encampments, the form of organization and 

 control of the institute, the season for meeting, the institute library, and farm 

 clubs for boys and girls under institute control is followed by a report, by 

 States and Territories, on young people's Institutes organized under the auspices 

 of the institute authorities or with their cooperation. An appendix includes 

 a constitution for a county farmers' institute for young people, a course in con- 

 test and practice work, a form of constitution for boys' and girls' clubs, an order 

 of topics for boys' and girls' institutes, corn and bread contest requirements, 

 record cards for corn and bread, and score cards for seed-corn ears, seed wheat, 

 seed oats, cotton, and bread judging. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-third Annual Report of Nebraska Station, 1909 (Nebraska 8ta. 

 Rpt. 1909, pp. XXXII+139, figs. i2).— This contains the organization list; a 

 review of the work of the station during the year, including notes on field 

 crops, abstracted on page 145 of this issue, and a discussion of the status of the 

 new substations; a financial statement for the fedei'al funds for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30. 1909, for the state funds for the fiscal year ended November 30, 

 1909, and for the remaining funds for the fiscal year ended July 31, 1909; and 

 special articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Annual Report of Porto Rico Station, 1909 {Porto Rico Sta. Rpt. 1909, pp. 

 43, 2)ls. 3). — This contains the organization list, a summary by the Special Agent 

 In Charge of the investigations conducted at this station during the year, and 

 separate reports by the physiologist, horticulturist, entomologist, chemist, coffee 

 expert, plant pathologist, and assistant animal husbandman. The experimental 

 work reported is abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Monthly Bulletin of the Department Library, August and September, 1910 

 {U. S. Dept. Agr., Lihrarij Mo. Bid., 1 (1910), Nos. 8, pp. 201-230; 9, pp. 

 233-257). — These numbers contain data for August and September, 1910, re- 

 spectively, as to the accessions to the Library of this Department and the addi- 

 tions to the list of periodicals currently received. 



