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Agriculture in New Zealand, M. ^Murphy (Netv Zeal. Off. Yearbook 1910, 

 pp. 7.'/.5-77J). — The author calls attention to the superior opportunities for agri- 

 cultui-al development in New Zealand by reason of its climate, uniform rainfall, 

 and the fertility of its soil. Data as to various crops, live stock, and other farm 

 products are reix)rted and discussed. 



Agricultural statistics in the British possessions, protectorates, etc. 

 (Bd. Trade [Gt. Brit.], Statis. Abs. Brit. Self-Gov. Dominions. Colonies [eic.]. 

 189.5-1909, No. Ifi, pp. 302-321). — Tables shov^ing the acreage in cultivation and 

 the yield of each of the several cereal and root crops in the various British 

 self-governing dominions, crown colonies, possessions, and protectorates in each 

 year from 1X95 to 1W9, inclusive, are presented. 



Annual agricultural statistics (Statis. Agr. Ann. [Paris], 1909. pp. 356). — 

 This is a report of general agricultural statistics and of statistics as to agri- 

 cultural imr>orts and exports, for the year 1909, in France and various other 

 countries of Europe. 



Agricultural statistics for Norway, September 30, 1907, A. N. Kiab 

 (Norges Off. Statis., 5. ser., 1910, No. 109, pp. l.'fo, pis. 3).— This volume re- 

 ports on the land area of Norway and its application for agricultural pur- 

 poses, the number and size of farms, crop yields, number and value of farm 

 animals, etc. Several graphical charts with legends in Norwegian and French 

 are included at the close of the volume. 



Wages, rent, prices of stock, provisions, etc., highest market prices 

 (Statis. Reg. Cape Good Hope, 1909, pp. 197-203). — These are statistical tables 

 showing the ruling rate of wages among agricultural laborers, together with 

 wages paid to laborers in other occupations in the various localities in the 

 province of the Cape of Good Hope during the year 1909. The average monthly 

 rent of a laborer's cottage or hut with garden in 25 localities of the province 

 is found to be fl 65s. 4d., and the average monthly rent of a town lodging for 

 a mechanic's family £2 8s. lOd. 



Foreign crops. May, 1911, C. M. DAtiGHERTY (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Statis. Circ. 19, pp. 12). — ^This circular gives data as to condition of crops in 

 foreign countries in May, 1911, together with tables showing total area pro- 

 duction, and exports of grain in specified years. 



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Educational agriculture, J. M.mn (IV'rs/. [Kans.] State Norm. School 

 [Bui.], 2 {1910), No. 3, pp. Ui, figs. 10). — This is a discussion of the problem 

 of secondary agriculture with a view to the proper fixing of the upper and 

 lower limits of high-school agriculture and thereby largely determining the 

 ■work of the elementary and higher institutions. The school chosen in the 

 treatment of this subject " is not an agricultural school in any sense or degree 

 other than that in which any high school with a rural environment or a rural 

 constituency should be agricultural." 



The author has divided the subject into 3 parts. Part 1 deals with the limi- 

 tations of the field as a realm of knowledge. He believes that nature study 

 should be strictly cultural, agriculture strictly economic, and science strictly 

 scientific, and that an agricultural or scientific education which has regard 

 for a child as a future citizen must consider the necessity of all 3 factors. 

 The present sti'ength of the movement for agricultural instruction in the schools 

 is economic, and according to part 2, which deals with organization and is 

 chiefly a psychological study as a means to solving the problem, it is held that 

 educators should put more stress on the moral and racial significance of the 

 reform and thus aid in the idealization of the vocation as it should be idealized 



