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Statistics of land-grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations, 

 1909, Marie T. Spethmann (U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Rpt. 1909, 

 pp. 211-250). — A compilation from official sources of general statistics, courses 

 of study, attendance, value of funds and equipment, revenues, and additions 

 to equipment of the land-grant colleges, and of the liues of work, revenues, and 

 additions to equipment of the agricultural experiment stations in the United 

 States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909. 



Technical milling education, J. Elliott {Atner. Hay, Flour and Feed Jour., 

 11 (1910), No. 6, pp. 3 l-S.'f).— This paper, read before the Pennsylvania State 

 Millers' Association, discusses the need of technical education for millers and 

 the opportunities for graduates, and outlines the 4-year course in milling intro- 

 duced last year at the Pennsylvania State College. 



The new kind of country schools, Jessie Field (Farm and Fireside, 34 

 (1910), No. 2, pp. 3, If, figs. S). — The author describes some of the practical 

 features of school work as conducted in Page County, Iowa, such as the exer- 

 cises with the Babcock milk tester, supplementary reading and study with 

 Farmers' Bulletins and other agricultural publications, school garden work, 

 making farm devices in manual training, teaching farm problems in connec- 

 tion with arithmetic, and conducting boys' agricultural contests and girls' 

 domestic science contests, with township and county exhibits. 



Agricultural extension schools (Ohio State Univ. Bui. IJf (1910), No. 33, 

 pp. 3-15, figs. 13). — This circular contains the Ohio law relating to agricultural 

 extension work and a description of the work thus far organized as agricul- 

 tural extension schools, demonstrations in spraying and pruning fruit trees 

 and mixing commercial fertilizers, field meetings, agricultural trains, fair ex- 

 hibits, bulletins, suggestions for agricultural work in the rural schools, personal 

 visits to agriculturists, and lectures at institutes, granges, clubs, and other 

 organizations. 



Information in considerable detail is given concerning agricultural extension 

 schools, including outlines of courses, rules governing the holding of the schools, 

 suggestions for local organizations, items of local expense, and the daily 

 schedule. 



The farmers' institutes in the United States, 1909, J. Hamilton and J. M. 

 Stedman (U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Rpt. 1909, pp. 327-355 ) .—This 

 is the annual report of the Farmers' Institute Specialist of this Office for 

 1909 concerning the work of the Office in promoting farmers' institutes and 

 the development of the farmers' institute movement in the different States 

 and Territories. It includes a discussion of agricultural college and experi- 

 ment station aid to institutes, agricultural college extension work and insti- 

 tutes for women, an account of the annual meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion of Farmers' Institute Workers, and statistical tables showing the number 

 of institutes held, attendance, funds appropriated, cost, and number of lecturers 

 employed. 



The Home Gai'dening Association (Ann. Rpt. Home Card. Assoc. [Cleve- 

 land], 10 (1909), pp. 35, figs. 25). — This is a report of the work of this asso- 

 ciation in 1909, including seed distribution, school gardens for normal, back- 

 ward, defective, and delinquent children, kitchen gardens, a public school 

 botanic garden, fiower shows, closing exercises, correlation with other school 

 subjects, a training garden, and vacant lot gardens. 



A unit in agriculture, J. D. Elliff ( Univ. Mo. Give. Inform., 1910, July, 

 pp. 65). — In this circular of information, issued by a committee on accredited 

 schools, and approved by the faculty of the Missouri College of Agriculture, 

 the author gives suggestions concerning the course of study, methods of teach- 

 ing, and equipment of laboratories and libraries for teaching agriculture in 



