488 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOKD. 



iuai-y science ; tisbiug and tish culture: and agricultural production, including 

 detailed statistics on the yields of the most important products. 



Part 2 consists of 27 colored maps illustrating the data contained in vols. 5-S 

 of this publication. 



The development of agriculture for the five years 1901 to 1905 {Jalircsher. 

 Landic. Kamnier ^\'ie■'<b(l(1cll. I'Jd'), pi). IJfS-Sl!)). — A rcpnrT is given on the 

 I)rogress of agriculture in the district of Wiesbaden. 



Statistics are presented and discussed relating to the population and the 

 natural and economic conditions of croj) production, including data on the pi-o- 

 duction, transportation, and monthly and annual prices of the most important 

 j'gricultural products, such as cereals, cattle, meat. milk, potatoes, butter, eggs, 

 wine, fruit, etc., and the extent of the use of feeding stuffs and fertilizers. 

 Data are also given on the selling and renting values of land; agricultural 

 labor, legislation, schools, and research institutions; cooperative banking, 

 credit, and insurance societies; farm management, breeding and improvement 

 of farm animals, and the technique and profitableness of agriculture. 



Crop Reporter {V. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Statis. Crop Reporter, 8 (1906), 2Vo. 6, 

 pp. -'il-'/S : 7, pp. -'i!)-')6). — These numbers for October and November. 1900, 

 contain in addition to the usual statistics on tlie yields and condition of crops 

 in the United States and foreign countries the following special articles : Crop 

 export movement, 1905-() ; stocks of American cheese, Sei)t. 30, 1900 ; per capita 

 consumption of rice; cotton area of British India for 1900-7 crop; rice in the 

 I'liilippine Islands ; the Australasian wheat crop ; i)eanut imports ; tobacco crop 

 by types — average production in 1900; the beet-sugar crop; the hop movement 

 in the I'nited States, 19n0-l<)(!0 : and other topics of an agricultural nature. 



Cotton movement and fluctuation, 1901—1906 (Xctr York: Latham, Alex- 

 ander d- Co.. 1DII6. pp. 18-'f. pJ.s. 6). — This publication contains detailed statistics 

 and special articles relating to cotton production, consumption, manufacture, 

 a.nd prices in the chief markets of the world, but particularly with reference to 

 the cotton industry in the I'nited States. For the year ended August 31, 1900. 

 a summary of our trade in cotton and cotton goods is given as follows : Total 

 crop ll,34r),9SS bales, value $000,0()0,(XtO ; export trade 0,710.351 bales, value 

 $400,000,000; southern consumi)tion 2.398.404 bales, northern consumption 

 2,499,708 bales: value of manufactin-ed cotton goods exported $53,000,000. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Progress in agricultural education, 1905, A. C. True ( C. H. Dept. A(/r., 

 Office Expt. »S7«.s. Rpt. lf)0.'>. pp. SOS-S-n. pis. o). — A review is given of the educa- 

 tional work of this Department in its relation to both American and foreign 

 educational institutions, including brief accounts of the Second International 

 Congress of Agricultural Education and the First International Congress of 

 Agricultural Mechanics, both held at Liege, Belgium, in 1905. Attention is 

 given to the educational work in 1905 of the Association of American Agri- 

 ( ultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, and the progress along agricultural 

 lines made by the agricultural colleges and by secondary and primary schools. 

 The article also contains a course of study for I'ural schools, prepared by Prof. 

 W. M. Hays for the National Educational Association. This course provides 

 an articulated scheme for the consolidated rural school, the agricultxiral high 

 school, and the agiMcultural college. 



Statistics of land- grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations, 

 1905, Marie T. Spethmann (T. .S'. Dept. Affr.. Office Expt. N/f/.s. h'pt. 190.5. pp. 

 lo3-lS6). — These statistics relate to the courses of study at the agricultural 

 colleges, number of students in attendance, value of liernianent funds and equip- 



