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192. Practical Agriculture. JOHN W. WILKINSON. New York: American 

 Book Co. (1909), 383. 



This is a "brief treatise on agriculture, horticulture, forestry, stock 

 feeding, animal husbandry, and road building." These subjects are dis- 

 cussed in forty-five chapters. In the Appendix of twenty-two pages are found 

 useful tables and references, and a list of apparatus needed for conducting 

 laboratory courses in agriculture. 



193. A Practical Arithmetic. F. L. STEVENS, TAIT, BUTLER, and MRS. F. L. 

 STEVENS. New York: Scribner (1909), ix+386. 



In addition to the usual aims sought in arithmetic tests, the authors 

 have included "teaching valuable facts by basing the problems of the book 

 upon problems of real life." The book contains a good collection of inter- 

 esting and valuable applications of arithmetic to the affairs of farm life. 

 Instead of the hypothetical problems concerning what A and B did, occur 

 such problems as, "If kainit contains i2 l /2 per cent potash and muriate of 

 potash contains 50 per cent potash, how many pounds of kainit will it take 

 to supply as much potash as 40 pounds of muriate of potash?" 



194. Practical Nature-Study and Elementary Agriculture. JOHN M. COULTER, 

 JOHN G. COULTER, and ALICE JEAN PATTERSON. New York: Apple- 

 ton & Co. (1009), ix+354. 



This is a manual for use of teachers and normal students. It is divided 

 into four parts. The first part considers the educational aspects of nature- 

 study and agriculture ; the second, "a detailed topical outline by grades and 

 seasons of the materials used in nature-study in the training school at the 

 Illinois State Normal University" ; the third, "a shorter outline for work 

 in the lower grades arranged according to seasons, and leading more directly 

 to agricultural studies of the seventh and eighth grades" ; the fourth "com- 

 prises certain chapters upon general topics ; material which has been found 

 serviceable for teachers whose general science training has been slight or 

 lacking entirely." 



195. Agriculture for Schools of the Pacific Slope. E. W. HILGARD and W. J. 

 OSTERHOUT. New York: Macmillan (1910), xix+428. 



This book contains twenty-three chapters devoted to plants and their 

 cultivation. Five chapters are devoted to animals. This emphasis on plants 

 is doubtless due to the fact that horticulture is one of the chief agricultural 

 industries of the Pacific Slope. The living plant in all its relations receives 

 more attention than is usual in an agricultural textbook. The book could 

 very well be used as a textbook of botany. It is illustrated by 209 good 

 illustrations. Elementary School Agriculture (1911), a teacher's manual to 

 accompany this text, has been prepared by E. B. BABCOCK and C. A. 

 STEBBINS. 



196. Domesticated Animals and Plants. F. DAVENPORT. Boston: Ginn & Co. 

 (1910), xiv+32i. 



This is a brief treatise upon the origin and development of domestic 

 races with special reference to the methods of improvement. It is in two 

 parts, one "constituting a brief course covering the essential principles that 

 are fundamental to an understanding of hereditary transmission and of the 

 business of plant and animal improvement" ; the other deals with the origin 

 of domesticated races. 



