796 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



iifter interest at 2 per cent ])er aniinin is to Ix- t-liarseil. Interest rates by the 

 banlvs for (liseoiiiitin.u afirieultin'al l>ills (if exc-lian.ue, etc., are limited to 4 or .") 

 per cent. Tlie ]iurposes for wliicli money can l>e borrowed, the amonnts and 

 secnrity reqnii'ed, and (he control f)f the funds are fully prescribed in the law. 



Agricultural cooperation and credit in Spain, A Marvaud (Rev. I'Uoii. 

 Intcnidf.. a ( l!in<)). J] . .Yo. ,'?. pp. r)3!i-')')(i) . — This article reviews the history 

 and develoiinicnt of a,i,'ricultnra] credit institutions in Spain. The functions and 

 modifications of the " positos," or grain deiiositories. as established under the 

 Eoman period are described in detail, tojrether with a snnnnarized account of 

 the present status, membership, and business of ajiricultural mutual credit 

 banks. A biI)lio.!j;rai)hy of modern literature is included. 



Cooperative credit in Burma ihulinn Agr., 35 (1910), No. 1, pp. 6, 7). — The 

 progress, status, and conditions of agiMcnltural credit in Burma are discussed 

 in this article. 



On July 1. 1909, the societies numbered 174 with 5.356 members as compared 

 with SI and 3.0S5. respectively, the preceding year, while the capital had in- 

 creased nearly threefold. The rural population, even in the I'emotest districts, 

 is said to l)e enthusiastic for cooperative credit as a means of relief from debt 

 and the jirofessional money-lender. 



Agricultural cooperative credit societies, F. R. Jordan {Dcpt. Agr. y. S. 

 Wales, Farmers' liul. A. pp. 'lU). — This is a summary of the organization and 

 development of the various forms of agricultural credit societies in Europe, 

 compiled with a view of encouraging the organization of such societies in New 

 South Wales. 



Crop Reporter {U. -S'. Dcpt. Agr.. Bur. t^tails. Crop Reporter, 12 iVJIO). Xo. 

 Jj, pp. 25-32. fig. 1). — Statistical data on the yields, condition, and acreage of 

 farm crops in the Ignited States and foreign countries, and on the condition 

 and loss of farm animals, the farm values of important crops, and the range 

 of prices of agricultural products in the I'nited States are presented and 

 discussed. 



The g-eographical distribution of grain prices in India, T. H. Engelbrecht 

 (Die geographische VerteiJnng der Getreidepreise — //, Indien. Berlin. 1908, pp. 

 Till +112. pis. 16). — The statistical data summarized regarding the grain prices 

 in India cover a period from 1861 to 1905. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Redirection of high schools in agricultural communities (School Ed., 29 

 (1910). No. 8, pp. 11. IS). — This article calls attention to the need of increased 

 agricultural production and of a new attitude toward agriculture as a basic 

 indnsti'y. 



From the standpoint of education the problem is recognized as almost wholly 

 in secondary lines. Without arguing against the special agricultural high 

 school the author points out some of the advantages of utilizing the existing 

 public high school for agricultural teaching, as avoiding (1) the expense of 

 new plants, (2) class education of rural populations, and (3) the loss of home 

 training and influence, while it (1) positively "directs the city boy country- 

 ward," (2) preserves the local indeitendence of the school, and (3) broadens 

 and vitalizes the influence of the institution. The ob.iect sought is said to be 

 " not agricultural schools, but agriculturalized schools." 



The plan advised for accomplishing this is to I'edirect and improve the cur- 

 riculum of the ordinary rural school, to make the division between it and the 

 high school at the end of the sixth grade, and to group the high-school work 

 in two sections of three grades each. A detailed outline of work for the 



