68 Agricultural Instruction in tlie Public High ScJtools 



Farmers' Bulletin 105, Spontaneous Combustion of Hay. 



Farmers' Bulletin 144, Rotation of Crops. 



U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of the Secretary, Circular 18, The 

 Adulteration of Red Clover Seed. 



Illinois Agr. Expt. Sta. Circular 81, The Potato and the Selec- 

 tion of Seed. 



U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook, 1901. Agricultural Seeds. 



Topical references on the following subjects were also read 

 as a foundation for the work in testing seeds for purity and 

 viability : Extent and importance of the trade in agricultural 

 seeds; centers of production; classes of agricultural seeds; 

 cereals ; corn ; buckwheat ; oats ; rice ; clover and other legumin- 

 ous forage plants ; grading and sampling clover seed ; how clover 

 seed is bought and sold; red clover seed; mammoth, alsike, 

 and white clover; crimson clover; red clover and sweet clover; 

 alfalfa; cowpeas and soy beans; Canada field peas and hairy 

 vetch ; velvet bean and beggar weed ; timothy ; meadow f esque ; 

 orchard grass; Kentucky blue grass; red top, and beardless 

 brome grass. 



The type of work done in zoology is of interest as showing 

 how a pure science may be made to minister to the cause of 

 agricultural education. A mere mention of the text and the time 

 spent in laboratory work would indicate only that the work 

 met the requirements of the better colleges. Some distinctive 

 features are shown by the following abstracts of reports taken 

 from the note books of several students. The first is a condensed 

 account of six field trips written by one of the girls. The others 

 are random paragraphs from the reports of other students giving 

 in more detail some of the observations made on the same field 

 trips. The abstracts have been subjected to the least possible 

 editing. 



Zoology Reports 



(i) Field trip, September 4. Purpose was to catch insects 

 for study. Insects found were grasshoppers, potato bugs, cater- 

 pillar, and a spider. ImcUI trip, September 6. To look for 

 insects on trees. Found tent caterj)illars and gall flies. Field 

 trip, September 9. To watch tent caterpillars work. .Also gath- 

 ered some insects, as worms on elm leaves, pyramidal gall, sour- 



