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Imports of farm and forest products, 1906-1908 (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Statis. Bui. 76, pp. 65).— Statistical data of farm and forest products, including 

 the countries from wliich consigned, are reported. The value of farm products 

 imported for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908, was $539,600,121, the value of 

 forest products $97,733,092, as compared with $626,836,808 and $122,420,776, re- 

 spectively, in VMl (E. S. R., 20, p. 690). 



Crop Reporter iU. S. Dcpl. Ayr., Bur. titatin. Crop Reporter, 11 (1909), No. 

 12, pp. 81-88; Sup., pp. 89-96). — These give the yield and condition of crops in 

 the United States and foreign countries, the farm values and range of prices of 

 agricultural products in the United States, the schedule of questions on agri- 

 <?ulture in the forthcoming census, and the annual report of the Bureau of 

 Statistics of this Department for the fiscal year 1909. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education: The United States Department of Ag'riculture, 

 B. M. Davis (El. School Teacher, 10 {1909), Xo. 3, pp. 101-109).— In this, the 

 first of a series of articles on agricultural education, the author traces the 

 history of agricultural education back to the first organization of associations 

 for the promotion of agriculture in 1785. He then gives an account of the or- 

 ganization of this Department and its rapid growth, and describes the educa- 

 tional work of the Department, calling attention to Department publications 

 iind methods of procuring them, the work of the Weather Bureau, Forest Serv- 

 ice, and Bureau of Plant Industry in relation to schools, and particularly the 

 work and publications of the OtEce of Experiment Stations. A bibliography of 

 Department publications is appended. 



Agricultural education, B. M. Davis (El. School Teacher, 10 (1909), No. 4, 

 pp. 163-176). — In this paper the author describes the work of the U. S. Bureau 

 of Education in relation to instruction in agriculture, quoting from the reports 

 of that Bureau and from the correspondence of the Commissioner of Education 

 to show the attitude of the Commissioner toward agricultui-al education and 

 toward proposed federal legislation to promote instruction in agriculture in the 

 different States. He also describes state departments of education and their 

 functions and gives a tabular summary showing what has been done in each 

 of the States by legislation or by official encouragement to provide for instruc- 

 tion in agriculture in the public schools and in agricultural high schools. Ref- 

 •erences to literature bearing on this paper are given. 



Tables of expenditure for agricultural education (apart from secondary 

 schools and elementary schools) (London: Bd. Ed., 1909, pp. 13). — This re- 

 port explains the relations of the general Board of Education and the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries in the support of agricultural teaching in the 

 universities, independent colleges, and the secondary and elementary schools of 

 England and Wales in the counties named. These have also been previously 

 discussed (E. S. R., 20, p. 201). 



Departm.ent of agriculture and technical education (Cairo, Egypt: Min. 

 Ed., 1909, pp. .56). — Notes on the work of the department and on the schools 

 under its direction and inspection, with lists of the exhibits of the schools at 

 the exhibition of the Khedivial Agricultural Society held at Ghezireh, Cairo, 

 ilarch 3-9, 1909, are presented. 



Agriculture (Ann. Edgar Co. [III.] Pnh. Schools. 1909-10. pp. 89-10.',).— 

 Suggestions are given for the study of weeds, crops, and farm animals, month 

 hy month, from October to April, inclusive. 



The Saidapeth Agricultural College and Farm, C. Benson (Ayr. Jour. 

 India, 4 (1909), No. -'/, pp. 335-3^3).— This institution has now, after a check- 



