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In 1909 the Central Bank founded a special land purchase department to 

 assist cooperative ci'edit banks in buying and selling land. Up to the present 

 time 35 peasant holdings have been bought and sold again by the Central and 

 the local banks. 



Agricultural statistics of Bulgaria CZeml. Statis. (Statis. Agr.), 1909, pp. 

 76'). — This report gives tables showing the amount of cultivated land, the 

 yield and estimated value of farm crops, live stock, etc., by departments and 

 subdivisions during the year 1909. 



Agricultural statistics of Bengal for 1909-10 (Agr. Statis. Bengal, 1909-10, 

 p. 77). — Statistics are given showing the acreage, classification of areas, and 

 status of irrigation, crops, current fallows, and stock in cadastrally-surveyed 

 areas in Bengal, and the transfer of land in each district for the year ended 

 with March, 1910. 

 |i^ Foreign crops, August, 1911, C. M. Daughebty {XJ. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Statis. Circ. 23, pp. I't). — This circular reports foreign crop conditions, giving 

 comparative yields and estimated yields of the leading agricultural crops and 

 products. 



Legal weights (in pounds) per bushel of various commodities ( U. S. Dept. 

 Com. and Labor. Bur. Standards Circ. 10, pp. 10). — This circular shows the 

 legal weights per bushel of various commodities as fixed by national or state 

 legislation. 



In many cases the weights of similar commodities differ considerably in 

 different States. It is also pointed out that on account of variations in the 

 densities of commodities in different localities and in different seasons, the 

 weight of a given volume has only been approximately fixed for these commodi- 

 ties, so that in transactions involving the measure of such commodities it is 

 important that it be distinctly understood whether the U. S. bushel, viz, the vol- 

 ume of 2,150.42 cu. in., or a certain fixed number of pounds is meant. 



The circular recommends that all sales of agricultural commodities be made 

 l>y weight. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Addresses and proceedings of the National Education Association, Boston, 

 Mass., 1910 (Addresses and Proc. Nat. Ed. Assoc, ^8 (1910), pp. X I -\- 1 12 't) .— 

 The papers presented before the department of rural and agricultural education 

 of the National Education Association at its convention in Boston, Mass., July 

 2-8. 1910, included the following : 



Vahic of demonstrative methods in the agricultural education of the rural 

 population, H. L. Russell (pp. 107-111). — The author holds that the economic 

 need of the hour is increased production and that agricultural education should 

 he extended to the man on the farm. The means employed at the University 

 of Wisconsin are described. 



Field laboratory uork accompaniiing college courses in horticulture, R. L. 

 Watts (pp. 1082-1087). — Some of the field laboratory work connected with the 

 courses in horticulture as given at the Pennsylvania State College is outlined. 



Field laboratory uwrk, K. C. Davis (pp. 1087-1089). — The exercises which 

 must be taken outside the school room and which have a most direct bearing 

 on agriculture are grouped as those which deal with (1) soils, (2) plants, (3) 

 animal life, and (4) machines, tools, and buildings. The exercises in field lab- 

 oratory work at a well-established agricultural high school are given as an 

 example of how the work may be accomplished elsewhere than on the school 

 farm. 



Tjaboratory and field 'icork in the agricultural high school, B. H. Crocheron 

 (pp. 1089-1093). — ^This paper discusses four difllculties encountered in at- 



