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be adopted by the British governnient. While unable to indorse any plan 

 of colonization at the present time, the eonmiittee makes several recom- 

 mendations relative to the government giving financial aid to emigration 

 societies, selection of colonies for emigrants, supervision of emigration, and 

 the emigration of soldiers whose term of service has expired. 



Volume 2 consists of a complete record of the evidence taken before the 

 committee which forms the basis of the report, together with 23 appendices 

 bearing upon various phases of emigration, agricultural statistics, coloniza- 

 tion schemes, etc., a detailed analysis of the evidence, and an index. 



Land settlement, agriculture, and live stock, E. G. Stenberg {8tatis. Reg. 

 West. Aust.. I'JII.'i. pt. ,'), jip. 72, map 1). — Statistics for the year 1904 in compari- 

 son with similar data for the years 1895 to 1904 ai'e published from official gov- 

 ernmental i-eturns without .comment. 



The data relate to the occupation of laud in Western Australia, areas open 

 for selection, land improvements, and other subjects relating to land settlement ; 

 the areas under crops, total and average yields, kinds of field crops and fruits, 

 cereal production, fertilizers, irrigation, dairying, poultry raising, bee raising, 

 employment and wages of farm labor, prices of farm products, and related agri- 

 cultural topics ; and the number and classification of live stock, number slaugh- 

 tered and lost from various causes, and the number and value of imports and 

 exports of Vwe stock. 



The development of agriculture in Denmark, K. J. Thompson {Jour. Roy. 

 Statis. 8oc., 69 (1900). Xo. 2, pp. 37-M/ii).— This is a paper read before the 

 Royal Statistical Society of London in May, 1906. 



Statistics are presented and discussed on the historic development in Den- 

 mark of systems of land tenure, size of holdings, cultivated areas, live stock, 

 trade in agricultural produce, prices, cooperation, and labor, the data in general 

 being compared with similar data relating to Great Britain. The present con- 

 dition of agriculture in Denmark is said to be highly prosperous, and this pros- 

 perity is assigned to three causes, namely: (1) Land tenure, which has cre- 

 ated a homogeneous farming community who, as owners of the soil, cultivate 

 farms of moderate size; (2) education, which by means of elementary, tech- 

 nical, and adult continuation schools has produced the most enlightened peas- 

 antry in the world; and (3) cooperation, which by promoting the production 

 and sale on a large scale of agricultural products for exportation abroad has 

 fulfilled the aim of Danish agriculture. 



Cooperative credit in Bengal, W. R. Gourlay (Agr. Jour. India, 1 {1906), 

 No. 3, pp. 216-219). ^The author briefly describes the plan adopted by the im- 

 perial and provincial departments of agriculture of India in promoting agricul- 

 tural credit banks in the provinces. 



The system consists primarily in making village societies rather than indi- 

 vidual peasants responsil)le for borrowing, disbursing, and collecting principal 

 and interest on loans, which are advanced at rates ranging from G to 124 per 

 cent interest instead of from 25 to 50 per cent as charged by money lenders. 

 There are at present 8G experimental village societies in Bengal, and more than 

 60 of these are said to be woi'king on sound principles. The results, says the 

 authoi', " show that we are on the road to a successful solution of the problem 

 of financing agriculture." Notes are also given on the institution of banks for 

 advancing seed grain to agriculturists. 



Imports of farm and forest products, 1903-1905 (T. >V. Dept. Agr., Bur. 

 Statis. Bui. .'/.>. i>p. 62). — Detailed statements of imports of farm and forest 

 products, including the countries from which consigned, are reported. The fol- 

 lowing table summarizes the value data : 



