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No. 35, pp. 6, 7). — The articles of incorporation for the establistimeut of a now 

 l)anl\ under autliority of a government concession dated September 3, 190.S, are 

 reported. 



Crop Reporter (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. Statis. Crop Reporter, 10 {1908), X<>. 

 11, pp. St-S8). — The usual statistics on the condition, value, and prices of 

 principal crops in the Ignited States, together with the condition and yields of 

 crojis in foreign countries, are tabulated and discussed. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Preliminary report of the Committee on Industrial Education in Schools 

 for Rural Communities (Nat. Ed. Assoc. Advance Print, 190S, pp. 6//). — This is 

 the third report of the committee. It includes a brief historical statement con- 

 cerning the two previous reports, and detailed reports by D. J. Crosby and 

 O. J. Kern on instruction in agricnltni'e in 4 types of schools, viz: (1) High 

 schools in small villages, as represented by the borough and township high 

 school at Waterford, Pa,; (2) rural high schools with a strong agricultural 

 trend to their curricula, as represented by the Cecil County Agricultural School, 

 Calvert, Md. ; (3) consolidated schools, as represented by the John Swaney 

 Consolidated School, near McNabb, 111.; (4) technical agricultural high 

 scliools, as represented by the district agricultural schools in Georgia. The 

 re|)ort has been previously noted (E. S. R., 19, p. 1197). 



Farmers' Institute Report, J. H. Miller (Jndustrialis-t, Farmers' Inst. Ser.. 

 1 (1908), No. D, pp. 80, figs. 20). — This report covers the biennial period ended 

 June 30, 1908, and includes not only a report covering the work of this period 

 but also suggestions for improving the farmers' institute work, for young 

 people's contests, demonstration work, cooperation with other organizations, 

 agriculture in the rural schools, improving the rural schools and home surround- 

 ings, and women's work in farmers' institutes. There is also included an 

 announcement of winter meetings at the Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 a reprint of the Kansas farmers' institute law, a suggestive constitution and 

 by-laws for farmers' institute organizations, and tabular matter concerning 

 the different phases of work carried on by the superintendent of institutes. 



Instruction in practical ag'riculture at the University farm, Davis, Cali- 

 fornia {California Sta. Circ. 39, pp. 3-18, figs. !.<)).— This circular contains the 

 amiouncements given in Circular 37 previously noted (E. S. R., 20, p. 192), but 

 is illustrated and includes an announcement of the regular two-year course at 

 the school of agriculture, Davis, to be opened in January, 1909. 



Manual of agriculture for the common schools of Illinois, D. O. Bahto 

 (.Vcir Yorli- and CJiieago, 1908, pp. .51). — The author intends this manual for 

 the use of teachers giving instruction in agriculture to pupils of the seventh 

 and eighth grades. It consists mainly of exercises relating to soils and growing 

 crops and includes indoor and outdoor work. A list of books and bulletins 

 which wnll be useful to teacliers and pupils is appended. 



A plan for presentation of the science of agriculture for the use of teachers, 

 H. A. MoRCAN and J. Main {[Kno.rvUle, Trnn.], 1908. pp. 16). — A unique 

 diagram has been devised by the authors to illustrate nature's cycle and the 

 relations of the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms to each other and tf) man. 

 This diagram and the cycle which it illustrates are made the basis for the order 

 of teaching the subject of agriculture and for illustrating the relation of dif- 

 ferent branches of agriculture to each other. 



Exercises in elementary quantitative analysis for students of agriculture. 

 A. T. Lincoln and J. H. Walton, Jr. {Nev) York, 1901, ii/). XV +2 18. figs. 32).^ 

 This book contains inti-odnctory exercises in gravimetric analysis, .-icidinieti-y 



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