594 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Report on trade in agricultural ijroducts, L. Vassilliere {Sol tec snr Je 

 Cnmmercc clcs Produits AgricoJex. Paris: (l(jrt., 1906, pj). VII + '(61. maps 3). — 

 This report contains detailed information regarding the extent and disposition 

 of agricultural plant products in France, a forthcoming volume being devoted 

 to similar data rehiting to animal production. 



The situation, configuration, and climate of eacli department are descrilied, 

 and the adaptability of each province for raising certain crops is indicated. 

 Statistics are then given relating to the production of forestry products, forage 

 crops, cereals, vegetables, fruits, and flowers in the various divisions of each 

 province, the quantities there utilized as food supplies or in manufactures, 

 and the amounts shipped to other departments and foreign countries, the 

 statistics being frecpiently compared with simihir data for preceding years. 



A detailed list is appended of the principal places in each province devoted 

 to the raising of definite crops, particularly fruits and garden truck. 



The world's grain production in 1906 (Die Getrekleproduktioii <lcr Welt 

 im. Jahre 1906. Budapest: lliii. Agr.. 1906. pp. 116).— Tha data tabulated and 

 discussed in this volume include the number of hectares planted to different 

 grain crops, the yields per acre, total yields in various countries, and the 

 classes and quantities of grain imported and exported by the great grain- 

 consuming and grain-producing countries of the world. The statistics given 

 are for the year 190G in comparison with the two i)receding years. 



[Agricultural statistics, 19051, E. T. Mullens (Up^- Min- -If/'', yatal, 

 1906. pp. 32. dgni. 1). — '1 his report liy the minister of agriculture for the Colony 

 of Natal gives detailed notes on the opening up of Zululand for farm settlement 

 and the extent of colonial progress iu agriculture, and reports statistics relating 

 to special and general farm products imported and exported during the^year 

 1905, the development of the various industries being indicated by reference to 

 similar data for the year 189G. 



An appendix contains a report by J. C. Parker as to the results of trout 

 introduction into Natal. 



Third report on Hawaii {Bur. of Labor [f. »S'.] But. 66,. pp. 365-688). — This 

 rei)()rt by tlie United States Commissioner of Labor relates in general to all 

 fcu-ms of labor in Hawaii. But since the islands, on account of their volcanic 

 origin, are " dependent for economic prosperity upon agriculture alone," the 

 statistics presented and discussed relate mainly to this industry. 



The bulletin furnishes detailed data on tlie capital invested in agricultural 

 pursuits, dominance of the sugar industry in Hawaii, number and character 

 of the rural population, extent of immigration and emigration of oriental labor, 

 land and its settlement, small fanning, stock raising, different classes of farm 

 labor and their standards of living, together with other statistics bearing 

 on the agricultural and industrial development of Hawaii. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education, L. II. P>ailey {Ann. Rpt. y. J. Bd. Agr., S3 

 (1905). pp. 131-15.'/). — In this address is given a brief account of the early dis- 

 cussions and movements for agricultural education in this country, dating from 

 1794 to about 18(30. Michigan is given credit for the oldest existing agricultural 

 college in North America, which was opened to students in 1857, and F. G. Cary 

 is said to be " practically the first professor of agriculture in this country, since 

 he seems to have been the first to successfully organize a college for this kind 

 of work." This was a literary academy started in 1833 at College Hill, near 

 Cincinnati. " It gradually took hold of the affairs of the community and became 

 ' The Farmer's College,' " but " finally passed into a military institute." 



