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range of prices of agricultural products at important markets ; cotton produc- 

 tion of 1911 ; and monthly receipts and stocks of eggs in the United States. 



" The total vahie of the . . . corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, flax- 

 seed, rice, potatoes, hay, and tobacco, based upon prices paid to producers on 

 December 1, in 1911 amounted to $3,769.562,000 ; in 1910, $3,581,844,000 ; and in 

 1909, $3,736,780,000. The index number of total production of these crops 

 combined in 1911 was 13.6 per cent less than in 1910 and 10.4 i>er cent less than 

 in 1900. The index number of average prices of these crops in 1911 was 21.8 

 I>er cent higher than in 1910 aud 12.6 per cent higher than in 1909." 



Foreign crops, Nov.— Dec, 1911, C. M. Daugherty {U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 titatis. Circ. 26, pp. 16). — It is noted in this circular that the production of corn 

 in 1911 in the United States, Argentina, Hungary, and Italy, which produce 

 more than 86 per cent of the total yield of the world, is about 556,000.000 bu. 

 less than in 1910 aud 250,0<30,000 bu. less than in 1908. The exports of corn 

 from these countries range from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 bu. annually. 



Tables are given showing the exports of corn by countries of origin and 

 countries to which consigned ; production of olives and olive oil in Spain in 

 1911 ; that the estimate of the area under cotton in British India is more than 

 2.000,000 acres less for 1911-12 than for 1910-11 ; area aud production of speci- 

 fied crops in Algeria for 1911 ; in Great Britain, Germany, Bulgaria, Canada, 

 France, and Russia for a period of years. 



Amount of chief agricultural products in Japan (Ann. Statis. Rpt. Tokyo 

 Vhamber Com., 1911, p. 110). — Tables show the amount of the chief agricultural 

 products in Japan for each year from 1900 to 1909 inclusive. 



The yield of rice increased from 205,673,253 bu. in 1900 to 260,100.803 bu. 

 in 1909. The yield of wheat in 1900 was equivalent to 92,967,886 bu. and in 

 1909 to 106,709,3.59 bu. 



Average prices of commodities in the city of Tokyo {Ann. Statis. Rpt. 

 Tokyo Chatnber Com., 1911, pp. 81-^). — Tables show the average prices of 

 agricultural products and various other commodities in Tokyo, Jai^an, from 

 1900 to 1910, with the average price of these commodities for each month in 

 1910. 



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Memorandum on the principles and methods of rural education {London: 

 Bd. Ed., 1911, pp. V-\-Jf8)- — This memorandum includes a comprehensive sur- 

 vey of that part of the agricultural education work for which the Board of 

 Education is resiwnsible, including county staffs and agricultural institutes, 

 rural elementary schools, rural secondary schools, rural evening schools, farm 

 schools, itinerant instruction in manual processes, farriery and dairying, 

 scholarships in agricultural colleges, the supply of teachers, advisory work, 

 and appendixes giving data by counties as to the schools in rural districts in 

 which agi-iculture is taught. The desire of the board in issuing this memo- 

 randum is " again to call the attention of the county education authorities to 

 the far-i'eaching importance of a well-conceived scheme of rural education in 

 its bearing upon agriculture, and through agriculture, upon the general con- 

 ditions of rural life," and " to illustrate and enforce the need for a compre- 

 hensive rather than a piecemeal treatment of the problem of rural education." 



Report of the Rural Education Conference on county staffs of instructors 

 in agricultural subjects (London: Bd. Agr. and Fisheries and Bd. Ed., 1910, 

 pp. 9). — This first report of the Rural Education Conference, which was con- 

 stituted in 1910 by the presidents of the boards of agriculture and fisheries 

 and of education, deals with the question as to whether each county should 



