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Agricultural statistics [of Argentina] for 1906 [Estitd. Af/r. [Arf/ciitiiid \, 

 1U06. lip. .(//. //(/. i). — Tabulated data rolatiui,' to the arreage under crops, the 

 production, exportation, importation, and prices of lai'iii products, including live 

 st(K-i< and meat, for the year 1!)(h; in conipai'lson witli i)receding years are 

 reported. 



Agricultural and live stock statistics for the year ending March 31, 

 1906, with i^refatory report, I.. 11. Suoll (.1///'. and Lire »s7oc/,- ,si(ilin. So. 

 Aiist.. HJOli, int. XXIII -f 1)1). — Detailed statistical data of land occupation, acre- 

 age and yields of crops, number of live stoclc, etc. The ])refat(n'y rei)ort dis- 

 cnsses these statistics in comparison with similar data for preceding years to 

 show the progress made in tlie agricultural industry of South Australia during 

 (he past decade. The methods of securing tlie data as strictly confidential gov- 

 ernment property are also explained. 



Agricultural statistics, Ireland, 1906 (Dr/il. A</r. and Tech. fiisfr. IrchiiKl, 

 Ajfi: IStati.s. IDoa, pp. .'//). — The data are more d(>tailed and in revision of those 

 previously noted (E. S. K., 18, p. 78S). 



Summary of agricultural statistics for the years 1901 to 1905 {Bui. Agr. 

 [Bni.'<.'<vls]. 2.> (ntoil). \o. 7. pi'- !i!)'J-10.')o). —Tahuhited data for each province 

 of Belgium of the acreage and yields of crops, the utilization of connnercial 

 fertilizers and feeding stuffs, the number of live stock, and the number and size 

 of farm holdings. The farms increased from 277,75-4 in 1901 to 296,314 in 1905, 

 with 1.707,1(90 and 1,701,757 hectares under cultivation, respectively. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education in England, J. C. Medd {Nineteenth Cent, and After, 

 I'Jir,. \(). .i.',!i. pii. lii,S-llS). — This is a critical discussion of the shortcomings 

 of agricultural education in England, the causes of which are attributed mainly 

 to lack of s.vstem and central direction. 



Agricultural instruction of collegiate grade is said to be fairly well provided 

 for, but the great shortcoming Is the "scanty provision of facilities for inter- 

 mediate agricultural education of a systematic character," such as would " pro- 

 vide for the sons of small farmers from 13 or 14 to 16 or 17 years of age." 

 Schools similar to the higher elementary schools in France and winter 

 schools of agriculture and horticulture similar to those in Holland are recom- 

 inend(>d. 



The writer believes that the term "agricultural" should not be applied to 

 instruction in the public schools owing to the general misunderstanding which 

 arises and the discre>dit into w^hich the subject consequently falls. He would 

 aiiply the term "rural science" or "nature study" to this class of teaching, 

 lie demands for the country boy as thorough an elementary education as the 

 town boy has, and recommends a differentiation between rural and village 

 schools not by means of any fundamental change in their respective curricula, 

 liut by the different treatment of the subjects and " their orientation toward 

 the innnediate and varying surroundings of each school." 



The fundamentals of farming, C. D. Smith (Country Gent., 11 (1906), AVw. 

 2807. p. lOGl ; 2808, pp. 1085. 1086; 2809, p. 1109; 2810, pp. 1133, 113',; 2811. p. 

 Ihu; 2812, p. 1181; 2813, p. 1205; 72 {1907), Nos. 281.',, pp. 5, 6; 2815, p. 29: 

 2816, pp. 53, 5.)).— The titles of these pai)ers are as follows: (1) The vacant 

 space in soils, (2) the structure of the soils. (3) water as a solvent, (4) the 

 movement of water in soils, (.5) preventing losses of soil water, (6) the forma- 

 tion of Inunus, (7) water and air in soils, (S) soil temperatures — chemistry, 

 (9( getting nitrogen into the soil, and (10) nitrogen and other elements. 



