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pp. 228, charts 10). — This is the first of a series of statistical publications to be 

 issued on the total wood coumierce and trade of Saxony. 



Detailed statistical returns are given for bark, dyewoods, timber, and timber 

 products, paper, and miscoUaneous forest products showing the Saxon ship- 

 ments, receipts, and interior trade in these products over the Saxon railroads. 

 The tables give yearly returns from 1883 to 1907, the monthly returns from 

 January to June of the year 1S83, and quarterly returns for each year for the 

 period 1883-1897. The appendixes contain several decrees relative to the col- 

 lection of commercial statistics, blank forms showing how these statistics are 

 gathered, and several platted curves showing the fluctuation in the commerce 

 of the important forest i)roducts for the period. 



The net revenues of the Saxon state forests for the year 1907, A. Bruhm 

 (Tharand. Forstl. Jahrb., 59 {1009), No. 1, pp. 78-92).— A statistical report 

 relative to the yields and financial returns from timber and minor forest 

 products in the Saxon State forest in 1907. 



A report on forest management in Italy during the biennial period 1906-7 

 (Bol. Min. Agr., Indus, e Com. [Rome], 8 {1909), Ser. A, No. 5, pp. 65-73).— A 

 statistical report on the government forest operations in the various provinces 

 of Italy for the biennial period 1906-7. 



Annual progress report of forest administration in the western and 

 eastern circles of the United Provinces for the forest year 1907-8, B. B. 

 OsMASTON and H. Jackson {A7in. Rpt. Forest Admin, '[fest. and East. Circles 

 [India], 1907-8, pp. 18+6+II+18+XCVII+5).— The usual annual statements 

 relative to the constitution, management, and exploitation of the State forests 

 in the western and eastern circles of the United Provinces, including financial 

 statements for the year. The important data are presented in tabular form. 



Report on the forest administration of the Central Provinces for the 

 year 1907-8, A. F. Gradon kt al., A. G. Hobakt-Hampden and C. G. Rogers {Rpt. 

 Forest Admin. Cent. Prov. [India], 1907^, pp. 6+17+20+20+LXX).— Reports 

 similar to the above are given by the respective conservators of State forests 

 in the northern, southern, and Berar circles of the Central Provinces for the 

 year 1907-8. 



Annual report on the literature and important happenings in the realm 

 of scientific forestry, forest zoology, agricultural chemistry, meteorology, 

 and forest botany for the year 1908, II. Weber {AUg. Forst u. Jagd Ztg., 

 1909, Sup., pp. 107).— As in previous years (E. S. R., 20, p. 646), this supple- 

 ment contains abstracts of the important literature on the various jjhases of 

 forestry, together with notes on important occurrences in the forest world for 

 the year 1908. The topics included are silviculture, utilization, management, 

 valuation and statics, the theory of forest mensuration and yields, administra- 

 tion, history, policy, statistics, news of forest unions and hunting clubs, zoology, 

 botany, and soil physics. 



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The loose smuts of barley and wheat, E. M. Freeman and E. C. Johnson 

 {U..S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus. Bui. 152, pp. 48, pis. 6, figs. 2). — An account 

 is given of investigations on the loose smut of barley {Ustilago nuda) and 

 loose smut of wheat {U. tritiei). 



The life histories of these smuts are described at considerable length, and 

 the . results of a number of inoculation and other experiments are given. 

 Investigations were conducted for the control of these smuts. The authors 

 state that the smuts of wheat and barley are widely distributed, and demand 

 treatment in many sections of the United States on account of the extensive 



