90 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



affect the prices of agricultural products and the increasing indebtedness of 

 landowners in Austria. 



As to the former problem he shows that the farmer has little or nothing to 

 say about the price of his products and that this has had considerable to do 

 with increasing his indebtedness which has more than doubled since 1868. The 

 indebtedness of landowners is now one of the most serious of national prob- 

 lems, and, in the author's opinion, has no solution other than through an in- 

 crease in the profitableness of agriculture. 



The agricultural development of Bulgaria, C. Wlachoff (Die landwlrf- 

 schafUichc Entirickhiuc/ Biilgaricus. Itiaticj. Diss., Univ. Erlangen, 1907, pp. 

 X-\-81). — An inaugural dissertation dealing with the economic development of 

 agriculture from 1878 to 1903. 



Yearbook of rural economy, 1909, H. C. Larsen (Landokonom. Aarbog 

 [Copenhagen], 10 {1009), pp. ISO). — This is the annual directory of public insti- 

 tutions and associations for the advancement of Danish agriculture in its 

 various branches. 



The present position of Danish, agricultural products on the English 

 market, H. Faber (Tidsskr. Landokonomi, 1909, Xo. 2, pp. 88-llS, figs. 2, dgms. 

 Jf). — An address dealing with statistics of the Danish and other agricultural 

 products on the English market and with questions regarding the trade in 

 Danish butter and bacon in Great Britain in the future. 



The harvest in Norway, 1908 (Bcr. Hasten Xorge, 1908, pp. 76). — The re- 

 port of the secretary of agriculture of Norway for 1908. 



Crop Reporter {U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur, Statis. Crop Reporter, 11 {1909), No. 5, 

 pp. 29-92). — Statistics on the condition, value, yields, and prices of principal 

 crops in the United States, notes on European crop conditions, and a list of 

 recent bulletins issued by the Biu'eau of Statistics are given in this number. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The problem of rural schools and teachers in North America, Edith H. 

 Spalding {Bd. Ed. [London], Ed. Fantphlet IS, pp. 70). — This is a description 

 from an English view point of the workings of those American school agencies 

 which have been progressively developed in the attempt to solve the problem 

 of rural education. It shows clearly how the problem itself arose from a con- 

 dition of diminishing rural population as the trend to the cities increased, and 

 reviews the various efforts made to counteract this tendency. The influence of 

 utilitarianism and of sociological interest in educational reform is noticed, and 

 the accomplishments of the Patrons of Husbandry, farmers' institutes, the 

 nature-study movement, and special teachers' colleges are carefully estimated. 

 Special attention is given to the subject of school consolidation in Canada under 

 the provisions of the Macdonald Fund administered by Prof. J. W. Robertson, 

 late commissioner of agriculture at Ottawa. An important chapter is devoted 

 to the training of teachers for the new requirements of country life education, 

 and the work of the newly-founded Macdonald College is emphasized as afford- 

 ing to city as well as rural teachers the stimulus of a unique training in purely 

 agricultural surroundings. Ten appendixes include statistics, regulations, plans 

 of buildings and grounds, courses of study, and other matters referred to in 

 the report. 



Agriculture in the high schools of Michigan, W. H. French {Mich. Agr. 

 Col., Dept. Agr. Ed. Bui. 2, pp. 12, figs. 5). — This bulletin relates some of the 

 facts learned in nearly a year's observation of secondary agricultural instruc- 

 tion given in the North Adams (Mich.) High School, which was instituted 

 under the dii'ection of the chair of agriculture at the Michigan College. 



