Course in geology for agricultural teachers, 1911, A. JENTZSCH (Landw. Jahrb., 42 (1912), No. 3, pp. 365–414).—This is a detailed report of the instruction given annually by the Prussian Geological Institute in a three weeks' course in geology for agricultural teachers. The object is to give them a thorough understanding of geological maps in their relation to agriculture.

What should be the aims of instruction at horticultural continuation schools? F. ZAHN (Möller's Deut. Gärt. Ztg., 28 (1913), Nos. 2, pp. 20–22; 8, pp. 34, 35).—The author outlines 3 years of instruction in horticulture in continuation schools for students from 14 to 17 years of age. Three hours are devoted to this instruction, 2 to drawing and 1 to parallel technical questions. He recommends that the instruction be made obligatory and that all subjects of the course be closely correlated with horticultural practicums.

Woodman's certificate and forester's diploma of the English Arboricultural Society (Quart. Jour. Forestry, 7 (1913), No. 1, pp. 37-42).-General conditions and regulations for the examinations for the woodman's certificate and forester's diploma, to "meet the requirements of foresters and others who might desire to secure recognition of their practical and scientific attainments in forestry and in the elements of sciences underlying their profession," are given.

Beginnings in animal husbandry, C. S. PLUMB (St. Paul, 1912, pp. 398, pl. 1, figs. 216).—This book is especially designed to meet the needs of students in animal husbandry courses in secondary schools. Among the subjects discussed are breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry; reasons and methods in judging live stock; judging horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry; feeding standards, origin and use; and how to calculate a ration. Topics for discussion and suggestions for observation and application are included at the close of each chapter.

Educational work, H. R. LEWIS (New Jersey Stas. Rpt. 1911, pp. 135–140).— An outline of a poultry reading course for the use of existing local organizations is given, together with a suggestive constitution and by-laws for county poultry associations.

Household science and arts for elementary schools, JOSEPHINE MORRIS (New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago [1912], pp. 224, pls. 4, figs. 2). In this 2-year course, the author offers suggestions as to the best ways of keeping a house clean and sanitary, gives advice in regard to the care and preparation of wholesome foods, and formulates about 350 recipes.

Outline for course in domestic science, PEARL MILLER (Col. Courier [N. Mex. Agr. Coll, 1 (1913), No. 2, pp. 3, 4).—Each of the 24 lessons outlined in this 2-year course, prepared for the public schools of New Mexico, consists of a talk by the teacher on which the pupils should be required to take notes, and an assignment of practice work to be done by the class. A list of domestic science equipment for rural schools is appended.

Housekeeping and cooking lessons for rural communities, AMELIA A. COOKE (Hampton Leaflets, 6 (1913), No. 9, pp. 38).-These lessons in housekeeping and cooking are offered as suggestions from which the teacher can arrange the work to meet the needs of her particular community.

The school garden, A. LOGAN (Aberdeen: North of Scot. Agr. [1911], pp. 47, pls. 6, figs. 2).—Notes on the method followed in the making and management of a school garden at the college demonstration garden, Huntly, and the educational value of such a garden, are presented.

Yearbook of rural economy, 1913, edited by H. C. LARSEN (Landökonom. Aarbog [Copenhagen], 14 (1913), pp. 127).-A complete annual directory of the public institutions and associations for the promotion of Danish agriculture in its various branches. A list of periodicals published in Denmark is appended.

List of agricultural fairs and exhibitions in the United States, G. K. HOLMES (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Statis. Bul. 102, pp. 68).-A total of 2,740 societies holding regular fairs and exhibitions in 1912 is listed by States. Of these 1,647 are classified as devoted to general agriculture, 80 to horticulture, 13 to floriculture, 4 to corn, 22 to live stock, 81 to horses, 801 to poultry, pigeons, and pet stock, 74 to dogs, 1 to apiculture, and 7 to dairy products.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Twenty-fifth Annual Report of Alabama College Station, 1912 (Alabama Col. Sta. Rpt. 1912, pp. 45).—This contains the organization list, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912, and reports of the director and heads of departments on the work and publications of the station during the year.

Annual Report of New Jersey Stations, 1911 (New Jersey Stas. Rpt. 1911, pp. XXII+582, pls. 60, figs. 22).-This contains the organization list of the stations, a financial statement for the State Station for the fiscal year ended October 31, 1911, and for the College Station for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, a brief report by the director, and departmental reports, the experimental features of which are for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. Reports have been previously noted on the inspection of fertilizers (E. S. R., 26, p. 819), and on feeding stuffs (E. S. R., 25, p. 774). The report of the animal husbandman includes records of the dairy herd for the year.

Twenty-third Annual Report of Tennessee Station, 1910 (Tennessee Sta. Rpt. 1910, pp. 91–122, figs. 9).-This contains the organization list, reports of the director and the various departments, the experimental features of which are for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910, and a list of the station bulletins issued from 1888 to 1910.

Twenty-second Annual Report of Washington Station, 1912 (Washington Sta. Bul. 109, pp. 24).—This contains the organization list, a report of the work and publications of the station during the year, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912.

Annual report of the director of the experiment station on work done under the Local Experiment Law in 1911, J. F. Duggar (Alabama Col. Sta. Circ. 19, pp. 131–154).—This includes a report by the director of the station on the organization of work under the Local Experiment Law of 1911 (E. S. R.. 24, p. 400) and its progress during 1911, a financial statement for the year, and brief reports by heads of departments as to their activities.

Annual report of the director of the experiment station on work done under the Local Experiment Law in 1912, J. F. Duggar (Alabama Col. Sta. Circ. 20, pp. 40).—The text of the law is given and data corresponding to that for the previous year (see above) are reported for the year 1912. A detailed account of the work of the boys' corn clubs and girls' tomato clubs is included. Needed appropriations for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations, B. YOUNGBLOOD (Tex. Expt. Stas. Assoc. Pub. 2 [1912], pp. 15, figs. 5).—The needs of the Texas Stations are set forth in detail.

Experiment Station Work, LXXIII (U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bul. 522, pp. 24, figs. 3).-This number contains articles on the following subjects: Still for alkali water, importance of draining wet soils, marrow cabbage, feeding beef cattle in the South, town and country poultry raising, cost of producing milk. milk-powder starters in creameries, sheep-branding paints, and cooperation among fruit growers.

NOTES.

Hawaii Federal Station.-The territorial legislature has appropriated $30,000 for the next biennium to enable the station to develop substations on the various islands and assist in the marketing of local products. Three new substations are to be established, two on Hawaii and one on Maui, and an effort will be made to organize immediately under cooperative associations the farmers in the various parts of the Territory for the purpose of facilitating the marketing of their products.

Idaho University. Dr. J. M. Aldrich, professor of biology, has accepted a position with the Bureau of Entomology of this Department.

Michigan Station.-E. T. Hall has been appointed research assistant in bacteriology, and has entered upon his duties.

Minnesota University and Station.-Appropriations aggregating $3,290,450 were granted by the legislature. Of this $326,000 is for special agricultural maintenance, $639,950 for buildings and equipment, and $276,500 for agricultural substations.

A seed testing laboratory is to be opened at the college of agriculture July 1, under the provisions of a seed labeling law just enacted, with W. L. Oswald in charge and Robert C. Dahlberg as seed analyst. An appropriation of $5,000 per annum is available for the work.

The new agricultural engineering building is nearing completion and is expected to be ready for occupancy next fall.

Recent appointments include Dr. Frederick J. Alway, head of the department of agricultural chemistry of the Nebraska University and Station, as professor of soil chemistry and chief of the division of soils; Miss Josephine T. Berry, head of the department of home economics at the Washington College, as professor of nutrition and head of the department of home economics; George A. Works as assistant professor, and E. C. Davis as instructor in agricultural education; Richard Wellington, associate horticulturist of the New York State Station, as assistant professor of pomology and assistant horticulturist, vice A. R. Kohler resigned; Louise McDanell, assistant professor of foods and cookery at the Washington College, in a like capacity; Grace I. Williams as instructor in food and cookery; and Frank E. Balmer as district supervisor of the county agricultural service. Oscar M. Olson, in charge of farm demonstration work, and Ella C. Pine and Alice Harmon, instructors in domestic science, have resigned.

Montana Station.-E. L. Currier, a graduate of the Nebraska University, has been appointed in charge of the farm management department, and has entered upon his duties.

Nevada University and Station.-E. A. Howes, professor of agronomy and agronomist, has resigned to take charge July 1 of a demonstration farm established by the Canadian Department of Agriculture near Vermilion, Alberta. Nebraska Station.-Clayton O. Rost and Guy R. McDole have been appointed assistants in agricultural chemistry.

Ohio State University and Station. The appropriations thus far granted to the university by the legislature aggregate $371,730, an increase of $64,855 over

the corresponding items for the previous year. Among the allotments are $75,000 toward a horticulture and forestry building, $75,000 for a botany and zoology building, $20,000 for apparatus and equipment, $10,000 of which is for the library, $3,000 for milk testing work, and $5,500 for improvement of grounds and fire protection.

An arts agricultural course of 5 years has been established. Students will be registered in the arts college the first 3 years and the remainder in the college of agriculture. At the end of the fourth year they will receive the degree of bachelor of arts and at the end of the fifth that of bachelor of science in agriculture.

A law just enacted by the legislature establishes an agricultural commission of 4 men, to be appointed by the governor, to take over the duties of the board of control of the station, the state board of agriculture, the state dairy and food commission, the state fish and game commission, and in large measure the state pharmacy board.

J. H. Muncie has been appointed assistant in botany at the station and has entered upon his duties.

Oklahoma College. The college is to locate and operate five encampment schools during the summer. Each of the five supreme court judicial districts will have an opportunity to secure one of these "tent" schools, and the location within the district will be determined by a contest between the counties as to their relative advantages as regards the county farmers' institute and its woman's auxiliary and the boys' and girls' agricultural clubs organized under the direction of the college. The college will furnish two tents, lecturers, live stock, and other equipment, and the course in each case will be for one week. Texas College and Stations.-William Harper Dean, instructor in entomology and assistant entomologist, resigned April 1.

Utah College and Station.-The legislature has appropriated $55,000 for a chemical building, $29,500 for a new heating plant, and $2,500 for a shed for farm machinery work. The Branch Normal School, located at Cedar City, has been transferred from the control of the state university to that of the college. and its work changed to agriculture and domestic science. Small appropriations were made for improvements at this institution.

The admission requirements of the college, beginning with the year 1914 will be 15 units. A group elective system will be substituted for the present

courses.

The extension department has closed a very successful year. The annual roundup at Logan enrolled 305 students in agriculture and 117 in home economics, and one for the south central portion of the State at Richfield had an enrollment of 367 in agriculture and 177 in home economics. Short course schools and one and two day institutes have been held in various parts of the State with a total enrollment of 62,000. A live stock train run on the Salt Lake route attracted an attendance of 9,160.

The home economics work of the college has been divided into departments of dietetics, domestic arts, and household sanitation. C. W. Porter, assistant professor of chemistry, has been made director of the school of home economies Dr. C. N. Jensen, professor of botany and plant pathology and plant patholo gist, has resigned to accept the presidency of Brigham Young College, and will be succeeded by George R. Hill, Ph. D. (Cornell, 1912), now connected with the Missouri Botanical Garden. Dr. Hill will have as assistants J. I. Lauritzen and Bert L. Richards, of the class of 1913.

W. Ernest Carroll, associate professor of animal husbandry and animal husbandman, has been granted leave of absence for a year's postgraduate study. His work will be taken by Clauson Y. Cannon, of the class of 1913. Other ap

pointments from this class include W. W. Knudson as instructor in horticulture and assistant horticulturist, vice Howard Schweitzer, resigned; George Stewart and Herman Stucki as assistant agronomists, vice A. E. Bowman, resigned to take up farm demonstration work; and Howard Maughan as fellow in agronomy.

Virginia Truck Station.-Frank Lindsay, of Norfolk, has been appointed a member of the governing board, vice N. W. Nock, resigned. J. C. Westcott has been appointed horticultural foreman, vice J. E. Pickett, resigned.

Sixth Graduate School of Agriculture.-The sixth session of this school is to be held in July, 1914, at the college of agriculture of the University of Missouri. Imperial Bureau of Entomology. This bureau has been definitely organized under the financial support of the British Government and its various dominions and colonies. It supersedes the Entomological Research Committee appointed in 1909, this body now becoming an honorary committee of management of the new bureau, with the Earl of Cromer as its president and scientific secretary. Guy A. K. Marshall has been appointed director of the bureau and editor of the Review of Applied Entomology, established in January and being published monthly in two parts, Series A dealing with agricultural entomology and Series B with medical and veterinary entomology.

In addition to the publication of this journal the functions of the bureau are announced as including the making of a general survey of the noxious insects of the world, the collection and coordination of information relating thereto, and the authoritative identification of insects of economic importance when submitted by the departments of agriculture and public health of the British Empire. It will also continue the publication of the Bulletin of Entomological Research.

State Aid to High Schools and Normal Schools.-An act was passed by the Arizona legislature of 1912 providing $2,500 state aid to any high school or normal school having satisfactory equipment and location to give elementary training in agriculture, mining, manual training, home economics, or other vocational pursuits. The state funds are to be used in the employment of instructors in such subjects, and to provide books, charts, apparatus, models, chemicals, and other articles and materials for the equipment of classrooms and laboratories.

County Agricultural Schools in Massachusetts.-According to the Rural Educator for March, steps are being taken to establish two county agricultural schools in Massachusetts during the coming year. Essex County, by popular vote, has authorized the issue of $75,000 in bonds for the construction of a school plant, and $25,000 per annum for running expenses. Bristol County has authorized the issue of bonds for $30,000 for buildings and equipment.

School Gardens.-According to a recent issue of the American School Board Journal, 9 garden centers are being operated in Philadelphia with ground divided into individual, class, and sample plats, where the theory and practice of gardening is taught. Of individual plats, 877 were cultivated during 1912, with a total attendance in the gardens during the summer of 92,735.

Besides these school gardens, over 8,000 home gardens were planted under the supervision of the teachers. The majority of these were visited by teachers from one to four times. From these, as well as from the 50 gardens in school yards, material is furnished for nature study and drawing, and for seeds, plants, flowers, and vegetables to supply the homes.

Provision for school gardens has been included in the budget for the schools of Minnesota next year. An appropriation of $2,500 was made for the purpose. A school gardening department was opened in the schools of Jackson, Tenn., the first of January. Regular classroom instruction is given and also practical