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the summer, the garden as a center of natural history work, and the garden as 

 a means for studying agriculture and' forestry and bringing about a better 

 organization of the nature-study and natural-liistory work. 



Home nature-study course, Anna B. Comstock and J. W. Spencer {Home 

 Naturc-Stttily Course [ContcU Univ., titatc CoJ. Agi:], n. ser., 4 (1908), No. 4, 

 pp. 28, figs. 11). — Suggestions for the work of third-year pupils as outlined in 

 the Syllabus of Nature Study and Agriculture issued by the New York State 

 Education Department. Lessons are given on the trillium plant and its habits, 

 the eggs of frogs and toads, tadpoles, a tadpole aquarium, the toad and its 

 habits, the frog, the tree frog, how to make an aquarium, the strawberry plant, 

 and its flowers, fruits, diseases and insect enemies, and blackbirds and their 

 habits. 



Agriculture: Its fundamental principles, A. M. Soule and E. H, L. Turpin 

 (Atlanta, Kkhmond, and Dallas, PJOl, pp. S20, pis. J/, figs. 219). — This text-book 

 of elementary agriculture is intended for use in the public schools. It deals 

 successively with the soil, its formation and physical characteristics, the plant 

 in its life cycle, soil improvement, and field, orchard, and garden crops and 

 their enemies and friends. One chapter is devoted to domestic animals, includ- 

 ing cattle, horses, sheep, goats, hogs, poultry, and bees, and another to raiscel- 

 laneous topics, such as trees, farm tools, good roads, the help of science, and 

 school gardens. An appendix contains formulas for fertilizers and spraying 

 mixtures, tables of feed and feeding standards, and lists of Farmers' Bulletins 

 and agricultural experiment stations. 



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Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1907 (U. 8. Dept. Agr. Year- 

 hook 1907, pp. 798, pis. 65, figs. 56). — The Yearbook for 1907 contains a report of 

 the Secretary on the work of the Department during the year, a brief account by 

 J. A. Arnold of the life and work of the late James Wallace Pinchot, 26 other 

 special articles abstracted elsewhere in this issue, and an appendix consisting of 

 an agricultural directory, a review of weather and crop conditions, the principal 

 injurious insects and plant diseases of the year, progress in food and drug in- 

 spection and in forestry, soil areas surveyed and mapped, improvements in farm 

 practice, game protection, bounty laws in force and road laws enacted in 1907, 

 and agricultural statistics. 



Annual Report of Idaho Station, 1907 (Idaho 8ta. Rpt. 1907, pp. 46, i)ls. 

 2). — This contains the organization list, a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1907, a report of the director, and departmental reports, of which 

 that on dry farming and soil moisture investigations is noted on page 214 of this 

 issue. 



Fourteenth Annual Report of Montana Station, 1907 (Montana Sta. Bpt. 

 1907, pp. 155-185). — This contains the organization list, a financial statement for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1907, a report of the director on the work of the 

 station during the year, lists of station publications, exchanges, donations, and 

 loans, and a meteorological summary of air and soil temperatures, precipitation, 

 wind velocity and direction, sunshine, cloudiness, and frost during 1907. 



Encyclopaedia of agriculture, edited by C. E. Green and D. Young (Edin- 

 hurgh and -London, 1908, vol. 2, pp. VII+536, pis. 11, figs. 101). — This is the sec- 

 ond volume of the general encyclopedia of agriculture and contains articles on 

 topics arranged alphabetically from Drills to Joint-ill. An article on agricul- 

 tural education is abstracted on p. 291 of this issue. 



