39P EXPEKIMENT STATION EECOED. 



m;-y be omitted in case a brief course is desired, or it may be employed as ad- 

 ditional text or as reference matter. 



Farm friends and farm foes, C. M. Weed (Boston, Neio York, and Chicago, 

 1910, pp. XI +334, figs. 160, map 1). — The autho'r has prepared this volume as a 

 text-book dealing with weeds, insects, fungi, birds, and mammals, the relation- 

 ships of which to agriculture are either decidedly helpful or decidedly harm- 

 ful. The book combines information with suggestions for observations, prac- 

 ticums, and experiments, together with numerous references to other helpful 

 literature. 



Dumb animals and how to treat them, E. K. Whitehead {Denver, Colo., 

 ,1909, pp. 12s, figs. .'io). — The author has assembled in this little book, intended 

 as a text-book or reader in public schools, considerable information concerning 

 horses, cattle, and other domestic animals, as well as some wild animals. This 

 is presented in a way to arouse the interest and sympathy of young children 

 and encourage them to treat such animals kindly. 



A secondary course in animal production, H. R. Smith (C7. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Office Expt. Stas. Circ. 100, pp. 56). — This is the thirteenth report of the com- 

 mittee on instruction in agriculture of the Association of American Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, and the third report of that 

 committee on agriculture in public high schools. 



The report contains general suggestions to teachers of animal production 

 and a syllabus of 155 lectures, recitations, and practicums, with numerous 

 references to text-books, manuals, and bulletins. The subjects considered 

 include types and breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, and poultry, 

 the feeding and care of these animals, and lessons on dairying. There are 

 also lists of text-books, manuals, and apparatus for the dairy laboratory. 



How to agriculturize the teaching of botany in the high school and still 

 retain the essential principles of botany, H. F. Beegman (X. Dak. Fanner, 

 12 {1910), No. 5, p. 13). — The author maintains that whether botany is taught 

 as general, agricultural, pharmaceutical, or economic botany, the underlying 

 principles are always the same, but he believes that interest in the subject 

 can be increased for rural students by using agricultural material. He advises 

 against the use of a text-book in beginning botany and would not use the 

 microscope very extensively. Suggestions are given concerning work with 

 seeds, roots, leaves and stems, and flowers, experiments in the composition 

 of plants, and studies of the gross appearance, habits, and methods of control 

 of some of the more important plant diseases. 



Winthrop rural school and home institute {Winthrop Norm, and Indus. 

 Col. 8. C. Bui., 3 {1910), No. 3, pp. ^6).— This number contains the proceed- 

 ings of an institute held at Rock Hill, S. C, November 13, 1909, which included 

 the following addresses : Home Making as a Profession, by Carriebelle Hyde ; 

 The Spraying of Plants, by L. A. Niven ; Hygiene in Home and School, by May 

 F. Jones; Sewing in the Home, by Lora Able; Food and Our Meals, by Mar- 

 garet Whittemore; and How Agriculture May Be Taught in the Public Schools, 

 by F. W. Howe. 



Elementary agriculture and school gardening at Winthrop, Minnie Mac- 

 teat {Winthrop Norm, and Indus. Col. S. C. Bui., 3 {1910). No. 4, pp. 40, pis. 7, 

 figs. 12, dgm. 1). — The purpose of this bulletin is to assist the teachers of 

 South Carolina by " setting before them as simply and clearly as possible the 

 methods in school gardening which have been successfully worked out at 

 Winthrop." The suggestions relate to the selection of the site, the crops to be 

 planted, the preparation of the soil, laying out the plats, tools, seeds, suitable 

 lessons in gardening for the fall, winter, and spring, a course of study extend- 

 ing over 9 grades, references to books and bulletins, and addresses of seed and 

 garden implement houses. 



