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damental rather than regional. There are many illustrations 

 that vivify the text. The following lessons are included: 



I The Nature of Plants; II The Food of Plants; III The 

 Soil and Soil Water; IV Soil Fertility and its Preservation; 

 V Cultivation and Drainage; VI The Propagation and Care of 

 Plants; VII The Improvement of Crop Plants; VIII Farm 

 Management and Farm Crops; IX Vegetable Gardening; X 

 Oranamental Gardening; XI Dry Farming and Irrigation; 

 XII Supplying Soil Needs; XIII Insect Enemies and Allies; 

 XIV The Fanner's Feathered Helpers; XV The Smallest 

 of Living Things; XVI The Herd and the Dairy; XVII Farm 

 Animals and the Principles of Feeding; XVIII Poultry Keeping. 

 The book is a direct help in m.ethods as well as in classroom and 

 laboratory. We predict that it will be used widely. 



The Bird Poems oj Miles A. Davis with introduction by Gilbert 

 Pearson, 37pp., printed by The Roycrofters at East Aurora, 

 N.Y., published by John White Johnston, Rochester, N.Y. 



A tiny volum.e this but every page of it pays loving, poetic 

 tribute to our bird friends. The robin, bluebird, oriole, oven-bird 

 htimmingbird, bob-o-link, wood thrush, mockingbird, chickadee, 

 petrel, wild geese, snow birds are all given poem.s that show the 

 author knows his birds by heart as well as by mind. Many 

 are the felicitous stanzas that will make this booklet cherished 

 by bird lovers. 



Take this of the bluebird: 



He brings the sunshine in his song; 



Whatever tender memoiies float 



In rapture from his tuneful throat, 



His wings have touched both hemispheres 



Of sun and snow, of smiles and tears. 



And this of the oriole: 



The sunset and the dawn appear 

 Upon his smoothly rounded breast, 



And this of the bob-o-Hnk: 



A stalk of grass to poise his wing; 

 The only creature that can sing 

 A full orchestral symphony 



