MISCELLANEOUS. 693 



wheat and its cultivation in Russia ; origin of tlie superphosphate industry on 

 the Volga ; the Russian beet sugar industry ; pigeon raising as a branch of agri- 

 culture; the Palibinka Government breeding station for Simmental cattle; out- 

 line of the distribution of the most important injurious animals and fungus dis- 

 eases of plants in Russia in 1910 ; and a historical sketch of the Imperial Nikita 

 Garden. Supplements are added giving statistics of crops and live stock in 

 Russia in 1910, of exports from Russia in lfK)9 of agricultural products, of 

 imports of agricultural products and machinei-y into Russia in 1909, a list 

 of publications by the Bureau of Agriculture in 1910, and a list of agricultural 

 education institutions. 



The Imperial Department of Agriculture for the "West Indies (West 

 Indian Bill., 11 (1911), No. 4, PP- 23 1-Jf50) .—This number is devoted to an ex- 

 tended resume of the work of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the 

 West Indies and a discussion of problems awaiting solution. 



Farm and garden rule-book, L. H. Bailey (Xeiv York, 1911, pp. XXIV+587, 

 figs. 22). — The present work has been prepared to cover a much wider field 

 than The Horticulturist's Rule-Book (E. S. R., 7, p. 131), which it supersedes. 

 It is offered as a manual of ready rules and reference with recipes, precepts, 

 formulas, and tabular information for the use of general farmers, gardeners, 

 fruit-growers, stockmen, dairymen, poultrymen, foresters, rural teachers, and 

 others in the United States and Canada. 



Agricultural laws of Nebraska (Ann. Rpt. Nehr. Bd. Agr., 1910, pp. IJfO- 

 261). — The text of the various Nebraska laws pertaining to agriculture is given. 



