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of preservation. This prohibition likewise extends to the 

 sale of the nests of said birds. 7. Exceptions to these 

 resolutions can be made at all times in favor of scientific 

 objects." 



AGRICULTURAL PERIODICALS ABROAD. 



One of the most interesting indications, as well of the 

 amount of progress in agricultural science as of the apprecia- 

 tion of it, is found in the agricultural literature of this coun- 

 try and Europe, and especially of Germany. In Germany, as 

 nowhere else, are journals devoted exclusively to the publi- 

 cation of abstract investigations in chemistry, physiology, 

 and other branches of science applied to agriculture. In 

 these, and also in others of a different or less scientific char- 

 acter, are published the results of a very large amount of in- 

 vestigation and experiment upon subjects relating to agricult- 

 ure. In order to gather together and present in a succinct 

 form to the German reader the most important results of 

 this class of work, there was established, early in 1872, the 

 Central Blatt fur AgricuUurchemie, " an organ descriptive 

 of scientific investigations in their application to agricult- 

 ure." The prospectus for the third year (1874) of this jour- 

 nal shows that it has enjoyed from the start a large and con- 

 tinually increasing success. During the two first years it 

 has regularly gathered material from over sixty periodicals, 

 some English and French, but mostly German. It has pub- 

 lished about six hundred abstracts of reports of scientific in- 

 vestigations, and two hundred shorter notices. The subjects 

 treated are grouped under the following heads : Atmosphere 

 and Water ; The Soil ; Manuring ; Animal Production ; 

 Vegetable Production; Agricultural Technology; Fermen- 

 tation, Decomposition, and Decay the last subject having 

 chiefly to do with the manufacture of fermented liquors. 

 Many of these investigations are of great interest and value. 

 Such are: Studies upon the chemical processes that go on in 

 the soil ; the effects of different fertilizing substances upon 

 the plant growth, and of different methods of foddering upon 

 the growth of cattle, the production of milk, etc. It is an 

 encouraging fact to the friends of agricultural science at 

 home that literature of this kind should be so well appre- 

 ciated, even if it be in a foreign country. 



