896 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



important products by States and on various dates ; farm marketing and prices 

 of wheat by months; value of the foreign trade of the United States, 1903- 

 1912; hay, temperature, and precipitation statistics; average vporld production 

 of important agricultural products; production of sugar and sugar cane in the 

 Territory of Hawaii, 1910-11; and range of prices of agricultural products at 

 important markets. 



Crop Reporter (Z7. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. Statis. Crop Reporter, IJf {1912), No. 

 9, pp. 65-72, fig. 1). — A report showing crop conditions September 1, 1912, with 

 comparisons, is given; likewise data as to the monthly receipts and stocks of 

 eggs and poultry in the United States; farm value of important products on 

 dates indicated; average condition of all crops, by States; average condition 

 of specified crops. United States ; temperature and precipitation statistics ; 

 farm value of important crops; imports of farm and forest products; monthly 

 movements of grain from farms; and the range of prices of agricultural 

 products at important markets. 



The total cotton ginned in the various States up to September 1 was 729,926 

 bales for 1912, as compared with 771,297 for 1911, 353,011 for 1910, and 388,242 

 for 1909. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The university ideal, A. M. Soxjle (Athens, Ga., 1912, pp. 20). — This is a 

 discussion of the origin, rise, and influence of the American university system, 

 considering such functions of a university as the maintenance of a graduate 

 school, leadership in public affairs, and extension work. 



Educational culture for the people of Manitoba, J. W. Robertson ( [Win- 

 nipeg: Univ. of Manitoba], 1912, pp. 8). — This address, given at the convocation 

 of the University of Manitoba, makes a strong plea for such further reorgani- 

 zation and reconstruction, of " courses " and " time tables " in schools, colleges, 

 and universities as will insure a full measure of an educational culture as 

 suitable for the fundamental vocations or occupations as the formal education 

 of the recent past has been for the learned professions. 



Report of agricultural extension departnaent, E. S. Richardson (Univ. 

 Bui. La. State Univ., n. ser., 3 (1912), No. 6, pt. 1, pp. 16).— A report of the 

 work accomplished by the department since its organization in 1909. 



Something- of the district agricultural schools (Farmers' Union Sun, H 

 (1912), No. 26, pp. 3, //). — A popular description of the work at the Statesboro 

 Agricultural School of Georgia, which last season had an enrollment of 253 

 pupils, 50 of whom were girls. The boys do all the farm work, each student 

 being required to put in 9 hours a week on the fai*m and 4 in the shop, and being 

 paid by the hour for all additional time. The same principle is applied in the 

 girls' department. 



Report of agriculture in the high schools of Michigan, W. H. French 

 (Mich. Agr. Col., Dept. Agr. Ed. Bui. 8, 1912, pp. 23, figs, i.5).— This report gives 

 the plans and purposes of the work and what has been accomplished up to the 

 present time. A statistical bible shows the enrollment in agricultural classes, 

 expenses for instruction, and the character of the extension work. 



High schools that ti-ain for farming, C. W. Warburton (Country Gent., 

 77 (J912), No. 31, pp. 7, 2//, fig. 1). — ^This is an account of how Minnesota 

 schools are adapted to the needs of country pupils. 



Country schools for city boys, W. S. Myers (U. 8. Bu>: Ed. Bui., 1912, 

 No. 9, pp- 22, pis. 5). — ^A few of the results thus far obtained from the establish- 

 ment of a country school for city boys at Baltimore, Md., and other places are 

 given. The movement has been supported entirely by private means. 



