788 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Comparison of English and foreign agriculture {Jour. Roy. Statis. Soc. 69 

 {1906). No. J/. PI). 7'i<j-751). — lu this ariicle attcMition is called to certain leading 

 contrasts in tbe agriculture of typical European countries. 



Statistics are presented and discussed which show the acreage in cereals, 

 potatoes, root crops, and fallow per 1,000 acres in 8 countries of Europe, and 

 a comparison is drawn between the agricultural position of Germany and Great 

 Britain. From statistics on the wheat areas, it would seem that thei-e are 

 110.000.000 acres of this cereal under cultivation in Europe, "of which much 

 more than half is to be found in Russia, Hungary, and the Danubiau states." 

 Russia, Poland, and Germany together have 8.3 per cent of the rye crop. 



Data are also compared as to the number of cattle and sheep in 13 European 

 countries. Belgium leads in the number of cattle and the United Kingdom in 

 sheep, with 245 and .374 per 1.000 acres of land, respectively. 



Agricultural statistics and chattel mortgages, N. Monteith (Aim. Rpt. 

 Bur. Indus. Ontario, 1905. pp. .'iS). — In addition to meteorological phenomena 

 for 1905, this repoi't gives in iiart 1 detailed statistical data of the acreage, 

 yields, and market value of the staple field crops grown in each county of 

 Ontario in 1905, together with the totals for the province for the past 10 years 

 and the average for the 14 years 1892-1905. 



From bulletins issued by the Ontario department of agriculture abstracts 

 are given on the season and crops for the year, live stock and dairying, labor 

 and wages, etc. A scarcity of farm labor prevails, notwithstanding the presence 

 of fresh immigrants from Great Britain. "Farmers are utilizing improved 

 machinery and newer methods more and more in order to get along with less 

 manual aid. Skilled farm laborers receive from .$80 to $40 a month, and from 

 $1.50 to $2 a day, during harvesting, but inexperienced men get as low as half 

 these wages." 



Part 2 consists of tabulated data regarding chattel mortgages in the province 

 for the years ISOC to 1905. inclusive. The prosperity of the farmers in the 

 province is shown by the reduction of the number of mortgages from 11,6.38 

 in 189(5 to 7,403 in 1905, securing indebtedness of $3,826,-582 and $2,758,040, 

 respectively. 



Agricultural statistics of Ireland, with detailed report for the year 1905 

 (Dept. Apr. and Tech. Instr. Ireland, Agr. Slatls. 1905. pp. 166). — This report 

 contains statistics on the acreage under crops, crop production, number of land 

 holdings in each county and province, live stock, dairy industry, bee keeping, 

 milling industry, forestry, wages of laborers, and other matters relating to 

 agriculture in Ireland. 



Agricultural statistics, Ireland, 1906 (Dept. Af/r. and Tech. Instr. Ireland, 

 A(jr. Statis. 1906, pp. 23). — Data are presented regarding the acreage under crops 

 and the ninnber and kind of live stock in each county and province of Ireland for 

 the years 1905 and 1906. 



Agricultural statistics of India for the years 1900-1901 to 1904-5 (Agr. 

 i<!1(ifis. India. 21 {l!)0',-5). I. pp. -',20 ; II, pp. 90). — This publication gives 

 detailed data of British India and native States relating to area of all provinces, 

 forest lands, and cultivable and uncultivable lands; crops Irrigated and sources 

 and extent of water used in irrigation; ai-ea under crops and yields of crops; 

 number of live stock and implements; land revenue of the provinces; transfers 

 of lands : tea and coffee production ; and other agricultural statistics. 



The basis of rural industry and bookkeeping, ,T. B. Lambl, trans, by G. 

 Edange (La ,^iihst<nicc dc la Propriefr T'uralc ct la Conrptahilite Agricole. 

 Paris: Lihrairie des Sciences Agricoles, 1906, pp. ,92).— The author points out in 

 this pamphlet that the constituents of air and soil, which largely enter into the 

 composition of plants and animals, are to a great extent gratuitously supplied 



