604 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



School gardens for California schools, B. M. Davis (Cal. State Normal School, 

 Chico, Bui. 1, pp. 79, figs. 11, chart J). — This is a manual for teachers based on experi- 

 ments in school garden work at the Los Angeles and Chico State normal schools. 



The author deals briefly with the history and development of school gardens and 

 their educational value; devotes a chapter to the plant and its relations, including 

 soils, fertilizers, temperature, and plant enemies, with an annotated list of some of 

 the most common and important insects of California; another chapter to plant prop- 

 agation, in which is included a plant calendar containing condensed information con- 

 cerning quite a variety of vegetables, flowers, and climbing plants; a third chapter 

 to instruction, including practical work and correlative subjects; a brief description 

 of school gardens at Los Angeles and Chico; an abridged list of useful books and bul- 

 letins for a school library; references to literature on insects mentioned in the text, 

 and a bibliography of 218 entries on school gardens, nature study, elementary agri- 

 culture, and horticulture. An appendix contains " some exercises for experimental 

 study of soils and other factors of plant growth." 



A new kind of garden school, Mary L. Butler (Gard. Mag. [New York], .' 

 {1905), Xo. 3, pp. 132-134, figs. 11). — A description is given of the garden school 

 which has been conducted under private control during the past 3 years at Yonkers, 

 X. Y. An itemized statement is made of the cost of conducting the school during 

 the summer of 1904. 



The present status and future development of domestic science courses in 

 the high school, Ellen H. Richards {Fourth Yearbook Nat. Soc. Sci. Study Ed., 

 1905, pt. 2, pp. 39-52). — In addition to a discussion of the nature and extent of 

 domestic science teaching suitable for high schools, the author gives an outline for a 

 4-year high school course in domestic science "based upon at least 3 years' work in 

 the grades in which evident facts and manual skill have been acquired. ' ' 



This course provides for instruction 2 to 4 hours weekly during the first and second 

 years, 2 to 6 hours weekly during the third year, and 4 to 6 hours weekly the fourth 

 year on the following subjects: Hygiene, physiology, drawing, textiles, physics, 

 economic botany, general chemistry, preparation of foods, foods for the sick, balanced 

 ration, biology, sanitation and civics, economics, and drawing and design as applied 

 to house plans and decoration, with some experiments and library work. 



Housekeeping schools for farmers' daughters, J. I. Brittain {Mo. Consular 

 Rpts. [U. S.~\, 1905, No. 296, p. 133). — Traveling schools for the instruction of girls in 

 nutrition and related branches of home economics are in operation in some of the 

 German provinces, and it is proposed, according to the author, to establish such schools 

 in Alsace-Lorraine. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Eighteenth Annual Report of Arkansas Station, 1905 {Arkansas Sta. Rpt. 

 1905, pp. VIII + 99). — This contains the organization list; a brief statement of the 

 director; a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905; and reprints 

 of Bulletins 83-87 of the station, on the following subjects: Broom corn sugges- 

 tions (E. S. E., 16, p. 560); peanuts (E. S. R., 16, p. 560); cotton food products in hog 

 feeding (E. S. R., 17, p. 280); asparagus and salt (E. S. R., 17, p. 251); asparagus- 

 growing in Arkansas (E. S. R., 17, p. 251) ; rhubarb in Arkansas (E. S. R., 17, p. 253) ; 

 fertilizers registered for sale in Arkansas during 1905 (E. S. R., 17, p. 229); and 

 glanders of horses (E. S. R., 17, p. 594). 



Twelfth Annual Report of Minnesota Station, 1904 (Minnesota Sta. Rpt. 1904, 

 pp. XIII + 281).— This contains the organization list; subjects of bulletins issued 

 during the year; a report of the director on the work of the station and experiment 

 farms during the year; and reprints of Bulletins 83-86 of the station on the following 

 subjects: Apples and apple growing in Minnesota (E. S. R., 15, p. 473); insects, 



