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42. New Hampshire College School Bulletin. E. DWIGHT SANDERSON, editor. 

 Durham, N.H.: New Hampshire State College of Agriculture. Vol. I 

 began May, 1008. 



This is a quarterly publication in the interest of New Hampshire 

 schools. Contents of Vol. I, No. i, Agriculture through the Rural Schools; 

 No. 2, Soil Studies; No. 3, Seeds and Seedlings; No. 4, Seed Testing. 



43. The Nature Guard. A. E. STONE, editor. Kingston, R.I.: Rhode Island 

 State College of Agriculture. Vol. I began October, 1899. 



This leaflet is issued monthly from October to May. It is the official 

 organ of the Nature Guard and Junior League of Improvement Societies of 

 Rhode Island. Each number has from four to eight pages and is usually 

 devoted to one subject; for example, the title of No. 63 is Experiments 

 with Soils. 



44. West Virginia School Agriculture. D. W. WORKING, editor. Morgan- 

 town, W.Va. : West Virginia College of Agriculture. 



Vol. I of this publication began in November, 1910. It is published 

 monthly from November to April inclusive. Each number is devoted to 

 some special phase of agriculture adapted for use in public-school instruc- 

 tion, e.g., Nos. 4-5 (pp. 67-88), Vol. I, to "Judging and Testing Corn." 

 It is arranged in a series of lessons : The purpose of corn judging ; How 

 judging is done ; The score card ; Selecting seed corn ; Will the corn 

 grow ; Will the corn yield ; Will the corn mature ; Is the corn improving ; 

 The profit in testing corn ; Making the tester ; Making the test ; Conclu- 

 sions from the test. 



45. Public School Agriculture. W. R. HART. Amherst, Mass.: Massachu- 

 setts State College of Agriculture. Special Bulletin (1909), 32. 



This is the Report of the Committee Appointed at the Conference on 

 Agricultural Science at Amherst, Mass., 1908. Fifty-four exercises in ele- 

 mentary agriculture are outlined. 



46. Proceedings of the Conference on Agricultural Science. Ibid. (1908), 43. 



Four papers are published as follows : "The Place of the School Gar- 

 den in the Development of Science Teaching," W. A. Baldwin ; "Adminis- 

 trative Phases of Agricultural Instruction," C. H. Robison ; "Physics and 

 Agriculture," R. W. Guss ; "Chemistry and Agriculture," Charles Wellington. 



47 . Proceedings of the Second A nnual Conference on A gricultural Science. Ibid. 

 (1009), 59. 



Six papers are published : "Nature-Study and Agriculture in Rural 

 Schools," M. A. Bigelow ; "Elementary Agriculture as a Subject of Study 

 in the Grades," W. R. Hart ; "Some Connections between School Studies 

 and Home and Industrial Activities," Hannah P. Waterman ; "Relation of 

 the Physical Sciences to Agriculture," S. B. Hasskell ; "Biological Sciences 

 in their Relation to Agricultural Science," E. D. Sanderson. 



48. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Agricultural Education. 

 Ibid. (1910), 30. 



Seven papers are published : "Co-ordination between Garden Work 

 and Nature Work and Book Work," G. L. Green ; "How Agriculture Put 

 Life into a Rural School," Ethel H. Nash; "The Story of Pinehurst 

 Gardener's Club," A. Green; "Rural School and Home Gardens during 

 Summer," Elizabeth Hill ; "Gardening in the Schools of Springfield," 



