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187. Teachers' Manual of Elementary Agriculture, Nature-Study, and Domestic 

 Science. F. E. THOMPSON, T. S. PARSONS, et al. Boston: Ginn & Co. 

 (1908). 



This manual was prepared under the direction of the Colorado Teachers' 

 Association. After an introduction dealing with the educational aspects of 

 the subject follow chapters on Soils, Plant Life, School Gardening and 

 Improving School Grounds, Field Crops, Insects and Birds, Live Stock, and 

 Domestic Science. Five pages are devoted to a Bibliography for agricul- 

 ture and nature-study work. 



188. Agriculture for Common Schools. MARTIN L. FISHER and FASSETT A. 

 COTTON. New York: Scribner (1909), xxiii+38i. 



The book is divided into five sections as follows : I, Soils ; II, Farm 

 Crops ; III, Horticulture ; IV, Animal Husbandry ; V, Dairying. There are 

 several appendices. One of these deals with the teaching of the subject 

 with special reference to correlation with reading, arithmetic, geography, etc. 



189. Agriculture in the Public Schools. LESTER S. IVINS. Lebanon, 0.: March 

 Bros. (1909), 156. 



This is a handbook for teachers. It includes suggestions for organiza- 

 tion of rural schools, teaching of nature-study and agriculture in rural 

 schools, plans for conducting parents' meetings, public displays of school 

 work, corn, potato, and vegetable growing contests, home, rural, and city- 

 school flower gardens, and other valuable information that is intended to be 

 helpful to the teacher. 



190. Elements of Agriculture. G. F. WARREN. New York: Macmillan (1909), 



xxiv+434- 



"This book is intended for use in high schools, academies, and normal 

 schools, and in colleges when only a short time can be given to the subject." 

 The author has attempted to carry out the suggestions of the Committee on 

 Instruction in Agriculture of the Association of American Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations. All important phases of agriculture are discussed 

 in the eighteen chapters that make up the body of the book. The text of 

 each chapter is followed by questions, laboratory exercises, and collateral 

 reading. A summary of chap, v, "The Soil," will illustrate the method of 

 treatment which is typical of each chapter : What Soil Is ; Rock Particles 

 of the Soil ; Soil Water, Including Irrigation and Drainage ; Soil Air ; Or- 

 ganic Matter of the Soil ; Life in the Soil. The chapter is reviewed by 

 means of twenty-four questions. The following is typical : "Where does a 

 fence post rot most rapidly? Why?" Fifteen excellent laboratory and field 

 exercises give concreteness to the text. Ten references are given in the 

 Collateral reading. There are twenty pages of appendix containing informa- 

 tion useful to teacher and pupil. 



191. Elementary Principles of Agriculture. A. M. FERGUSON and L. L. LEWIS. 

 Sherman, Tex.: Ferguson Publishing Co. (1909), xvi+3i8. 



The aim of the book is perhaps best expressed by the authors : "Our 

 own ideas are that the primary obj.ect of a text on agriculture, intended for 

 the common schools, is to satisfy the natural interest of all children about 

 the whys of common farm conditions." 



The book is in three parts : Part I, deals with the plant, soil diseases of 

 plants, injurious insects, etc. ; Part II, with animals, including dairying ; 

 Part III, is devoted to special topics, such as home lot, school gardens, for- 

 estry, etc. There is an Appendix of nine parts, including references, formu- 

 lae for sprays, tables of nutrients, rainfall, etc. 



