992 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



total imports from the T'liitcd States in UMM; were viiliicil at .$l'J(J,(;20,.S(i(), of 

 which .$712,7! n.. SI (■», or 'u.~> per ciMit, were afiricultural prodiu-ts, as compared 

 with an averajxe for tlie 10-year iicriod of (»2.2 per cent. 



Crop Reporter il'. N. D<i)t. .\<ir., liar. titat'tH. Crop li< porter, 11 (IDOO), No, 

 S, PI), n-2.'f). — statistics on tlie condition, vahie, yields, and prices of principal 

 crops in the T'nited States and foreign conntries are tal)nlated and discnssed, 

 together with articles on the adnlteration and misbranding of the seeds of 

 alfalfa, red clover, orchard urass. and Kentucky hlncfrrass (noted elsewhere in 

 this issue), and on the (piautity and value of the imports of tobacco into Euk- 

 land from the thirtecMi American colonics 200 years ajjo. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Annual report Winnebag'o County schools, 1908, O. .7. Kkhn ( Rnckfnrd, 111., 

 J!)0><. pp. '.)(), figs. i)2, dfftti.s. ,i). — This report classifies and describes the "forces 

 at work " in country life mider the heads of better physical conditions of the 

 farm home, better farm manajiement, transportation and c(»mnumication for the 

 farm, farmers' or^'anizations and civic associations, the i)rintiu.u press, the 

 country church, and the country school. There follows a chapter on outdoor 

 art for country life, iucludinfi directions for school jiardenins and a synopsis of 

 such work done in the county in 1908, and a chapter on indoor art for country 

 life similarly exemplified. One important division of the report is a classified 

 list of the books available in the Rockford (111.) Public Library on country life 

 interests, including the farm and home, country schools, indus^trial training, the 

 studying and teaching of agriculture, and occupations and amusements. Such 

 a classification of the books in local liliraries would make them much min-e 

 useful to teachers, and this report will be found helitful and suggestive to any 

 plaTiuing for such classification. Seven pages are devoted to a review of the 

 development of country high school work in Winnebago County, and some 

 examples of recent consolidation in Ohio, and several pages on the Babcock 

 milk tester as an educational and economic factor in a school are offered to 

 illustrate "'some ways a city high school may enrich country life." 



The farmers' school. A, B. Graham (Ann. Rpt. Ohio Bd. Agr., 62 (1907), pp. 

 Jil2~'i21). — This address I'eviews the history of rural school supervision in Ohio 

 and dwells njion the provision made in recent years for the promotion of rural 

 children to the oi)portunity for secondary training. The author also suggests 

 many agricultural ai»plications of the facts and princiiiles learnetl in science 

 study and jHiints out the opportunities for making school work the center of 

 social interest and activity in each community. Si)ecial emphasis is laid ujxm 

 the importance of securing the best possible teachers for the rural schools. 



The successful farmer's education, W. G. Owens (Ann. Rpt. Penn. Dept. 

 Agr., 13 (liXH), pp. 22.'i-22S). — The needs of the modern farmer for instruction 

 concerning up-to-date machinery and other special features of agriculture are 

 pointed out, the importance of agriculture as an industry is emphasized, and 

 the need of starting instruction in agriculture in tlie public schools is insisted 

 ujion. 



Higher education for the farmer's wife, 'Sins. F. M. Jones (Ann. Rpt. Ohio 

 Bd. Agr.. 6'2 (1907), pp. .'i56, -'/o7). — This paper makes an earnest plea for the 

 introduction into the rural home of domestic time-aud-labor-saving conveniences 

 comparable in value with those which the farmer commonly provides himself 

 with for the out-door work of the farm, that the energy thus saved to the wife 

 may be utilized in the better organization of the entire home life and in assist- 



