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and foreign countries, and tlie farm \ahu's of imijortant pi-oducts and tlie range 

 of prices of agricultural products in tlie chief markets of the United States are 

 reported, together with data on the production and consumption of manu- 

 factured fertilizers alistraeted on page L*(i of this issue. 



Crop Reporter: Index to Vols. 8-10 (U. S. Dcpt. At/r., lUir. Htatis. Crop Re- 

 porter, Index, Vols. 8-JO, pp. 15). 



According to the autlior Its function is '• to get nations to complete their crop- 

 reporting systems, to get them to harmonize the data to the end that the 

 institute may gather from the nations the facts regarding their crops, sum- 

 marize them, and disseminate them promptly to all the world." 



The progress that the institute has made in bringing about these results is 

 briefly described and it is believed that it will be in a position to liegin its 

 regular official service in January, 1910. 



[Bibliography of agriculture], Adi;laiuk II. Hasse (Carnegie Inst. Wash- 

 ington, Pub. 85 (Me.), pp. 11-21; (N. II.), pp. 9-12; (Vt.), pp. 11-lJ,; (N. Y.), 

 pp. 25-41; (R. I.), i}p. 23-27; (Mass.), pp. 21-28; (Cal), pp. 12-1,8; and (III), 

 pp. 33-104). — The Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States 

 of the United States, which is being issued by the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, contains a bibliography relating to agriculture and agricultural 

 societies. The States for which the material has been published are Maine, 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California, 

 and Illinois. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education in America, W. Macdonald (Neic York, IDOH. ))p. 

 VII -\- 162, pi. 1). — This gives a brief survey of the legislation by the National 

 Government respecting agricultural education witli the results that have grown 

 out of it, and has been prepared for the particular purpose of influencing a 

 similar development in the Transvaal, from which country the author came to 

 the University of Minnesota for a graduate course in agriculture. The book is 

 a dissertation for the degree of doctor of science, and deals principally with the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, agricultural endowments, the rise of Cornell 

 University, farmers" institutes, and agricultural education in Minnesota. 



Provisions relating to agricultural education, C. Shimooka (In Agrieultnrc 

 in Japan. Tokyo: Govt., IDOS. pp. Slio-SSS). — A brief description is given of the 

 system of agricultural education in Japan. This includes 2 university colleges 

 of agriculture, 6 technical institutes or agricultural high schools, 78 common 

 schools of agriculture for middle class farmers, 101 common schools of agricul- 

 ture for small farmers, and supplementary and miscellaneous instruction in agri- 

 culture, including local agricultural institutes, peripatetic lectures, primary 

 agricultural schools, and schools for the training of teachers of agriculture. 



The teaching of agriculture in the high school, F. M. Giles (Sehool Rev., 

 n ilHOD), No. 3, pp. 15-'/-165). — This paper recommends tlie use of elementary 

 agriculture as an introduction to high-school science for the following reasons : 

 (1) It meets the interest of adolescent pupils far better than the traditional 

 science courses derived from the colleges; (2) it conforms better to the peda- 

 gogical order of the practical organization of facts before their philosophical 

 organization; and (3) it secures to a larger degree the approval of school 

 patrons. From these bases the author concludes that the agricultural instruc- 

 tion should explain environment rather than give technical skill, and that its 

 educational value is as marked for city as for rural schools. 



Agriculture in the high school, S, A. Harbourt (Jour. Ed. [Boston], 10 

 (1909), No. 16, pp. 1(30, 431). — From the exi)eriences and results of four years' 

 teaching of agriculture in the Andover (Ohio) High School the author concludes 

 that the work has increased the interest of pupils in other school subjects, led 



