412 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Nature-study lessons for primary grades, Lida B. McMueray, with an 

 introduction by C. A. McMurray {New York: The Macmillan Co., 1905, pp. 191).— 

 This is a teachers' manual, consisting of a series of nature-study lessons which were 

 worked out by the author in the class room and in outdoor excursions with children. 



The book is divided into two parts — (1) animal life, containing lessons on pets, 

 domestic animals and fowls and common birds and insects, and (2) plant life, with 

 lessons on flowers, trees, buds, leaves, and fruit. The lessons consist of stories 

 intended to arouse an interest in plant and animal life on the part of the children, 

 and suggestive questions for the teacher. 



The author holds that "a teacher in nature study must know how to live happily 

 and companionably with children among the birds, flowers, insects, and trees,'' and 

 "how to enjoy an excursion with children." Furthermore, "one must learn to 

 concentrate the children's thoughts along given lines, for a mere chasing after chance 

 birds and butterflies will not answer. Having awakened the attention and interest 

 of children in certain lines, it is necessary to lead on to more definite observations, 

 and. sooner or later, to get from the children a clear statement of facts." 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations, 1904 ( U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Office Expt. Stas. Rpt. 190//, pp. 724, pis. 42, figs. 11). — This contains the usual report 

 on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations in the United 

 States; annual reports of the experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico; 

 reviews of irrigation and nutrition investigations, and several other articles abstracted 

 elsewhere in this issue. 



Included in the report on the work and expenditures of the stations are statisti- 

 cal summaries; brief reports of nutrition and irrigation investigations; a summarized 

 account of the meeting of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations; a review of the work of this Office; a report on the governing 

 board, station staff, general outlook, lines of work, income, and publications of each 

 experiment station; a list of station publications received by this Office during 1904; 

 federal legislation, regulations, and rulings affecting agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations, etc. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of Louisiana Stations, 1904 {Louisiana Stas. 

 Rpt. 1904, pp. 16). — This contains statements on the condition of crops at the Loui- 

 siana stations, outlines of work conducted during the year, organization lists, and a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904. 



The work at the substations, L. R. Taft and C. D. Smith {Michigan Sta. Bui. 

 226, pp. 149-164, figs. 6).— This is a review of the reports of the South Haven and 

 Upper Peninsula substations for 1903 and 1904, published as Special Bulletins 27, 28, 

 30, and 31 of the station (E. S. R., 16, pp. 250, 260, 261; 17, pp. 22, 35, 37). 



Annual Report of New Jersey Stations, 1904 ( New Jersey Stas. Rpt. 1904, pp. 

 X IX '-\-652). — This includes the organization lists of the stations; a financial state- 

 ment of the State station for the year ended October 31, 1904, and of the college sta- 

 tion for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904; a report of the director reviewing the 

 different lines of station work; and reports of the chemists, soil chemist and bacteri- 

 ologist, horticulturist, dairy husbandman, biologist, botanist, and entomologist, ab- 

 stracted elsewhere. Included in the report of the chemists are reprints of Bulletins 

 175 of the station on concentrated feeding stuffs (E. S. R., 16, p. 394), and 183 on 

 agricultural lime (E. S. R.j 17, p. 18). 



Experiment Station Work, XXX (U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 227, pp. 32, 

 figs. 2). — This number contains articles on the following subjects: Top-dressing grass 

 land, extension of the corn-growing area, culture of peanuts for forage, winterkilling 

 of fruit trees, cranberry culture, lime-sulphur-salt wash, destroying prairie dogs, 

 clean milk, and construction and ventilation of poultry houses. 



