194 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



followed in the jrrainniar srados and the hif?h school with studios of the soil, the 

 :ituiosi)here, seeds, plant production (wheat, corn, grasses, llax, weeds, horti- 

 culture, and plant breeding;), farm animals, hii-ds and insects, the school garden, 

 and reference books. 



Bural school agriculture, C. W. Davis ( New York, 1907, pp. 267, fii/.s. 7 '/ ) .— 

 'J^his is a series of 142 exercises in agriculture prepared for the use of students 

 of agriculture who expect to become teachers, and for those in rural districts 

 who expect to continue to live on the farm. The exercises are fully illustrated, 

 classitied, and arranged in logical sequence. The first group of exercises ;s 

 intended to familiarize pupils with conditions of matter and changes in matter, 

 and with the meaning of such terms as condensation, absori)tion, evaporation, 

 assimilation, resi)iration, solutions, etc. The i-emaining exercises are arranged 

 in groups relating to i)lants, soils and fei'tilizers, corn, wheat and oats, cotton, 

 feeds and feeding, milk, fruits, home grounds, insects, and spraying. A glossary 

 contains definitions of the principal scientific terms, and an appendix contains 

 score cards and tables of values of fertilizers, feeds, weights, etc. 



How agriculture can be taught in our schools, C. Mankenberg (School Ed., 

 27 (1908), No. .'/, pp. .'/G, .)<S', oO). — An account is given of the writer's experience 

 in arousing an interest in agriculture without the use of the text-book. 



Horticultural education, C. P. Close (Trans. Peninsula Hort. Soc. [Del.], 21 

 (1908), pp. 9J{~101). — An address before the Peninsula Horticultural Society 

 at Salisbury, Md., .January 14-16, 1908, in which horticulture is defined and 

 instruction in horticulture, as it is now carried on in different institutions, is 

 discussed. 



An elementary course in horticulture for the schools of Michigan, S. W. 

 Fletcher (Mich. State Supt. Pub. Instr. Bui. 28, pp. 31, figs. 22). — This bul- 

 letin was prepared at the request of the State superintendent of public instruc- 

 tion in ^Michigan as an elementary course in horticulture for the public sclu)ols. 

 It deals with the propagation of plants, w'indow gardening, fruit growing, 

 landscape and flower gardening, and vegetable gardening, and is intended 

 merely as an outline to be used in connection with a number of manuals to 

 which numerous references are made. 



The adornment of rural school surroundings, G. L. Clothiek (Mississippi 

 Sta. Bui. 109, pp. 3-12, figs. .)). — As preliminary steps to the adornment of rural 

 school grounds the author advises precautionary measures against live stock 

 and trespassers, and enumerates the elements of environment of a country 

 school that are capable of improvement. Directions are then given for handling 

 nursery stock, arranging shrubs, lawns and wallvs, and planting vines -and 

 flowers. An outline plan of a model country school after the execution of the 

 main features of the planting plan is included. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual Report of Alaska Stations, 1907 (Alaska Stas. Rpt. 1907, pp. 98, 

 pis. 7, figs. 3]. — This contains a report of the chief lines of work carried on 

 during the year at the Sitka, Copper Center. Itampart, and Kenai stations with 

 an account of the establislmient of an additional station at Fairbanks and 

 of a live stock breeding station at Kodiak Island, and brief notes on live stock 

 operations on a ranch at Kodiak and on au attempt to interest the Indians 

 in gardening, and reports from the seed distribution. Meteorological data, 

 au article on Dairy Practice at Kenai Station, and accounts of extensive tests 

 of field and garden crops are abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Nineteenth Annual Report of Georgia Station, 1906 (Georgia Sta. Rpt. 

 1906, pp. 2.'f2-2j2), — This contains the organization list, a brief rei)ort by the 



