AGRICULTURAL EDUi^YTION. 91 



Xo. SSS'i, pp. ').j). — Statistical data with discussion of the trade rehitions, which 

 are largely confined to agricultural products, and include the yields, exports, 

 and imports for the year 1906. 



Notes are given on the agrarian (luestion. the operation of the state peasant 

 banlv, and the antiquated cro[)ping system of the Russian peasantry. Improved 

 methods of cultivation and a better system of rotation of crops are urged as 

 means of solving the agrarian question and improving the lot of the peasantry. 

 Under the present system of cropping one-third of the cultivated area lies 

 fallow, but if the Russian peasants would adopt the intensive system as prac- 

 ticed in Germany, " they would be able to increase the growing area of their 

 present holdings by something like 30 per cent, equivalent to an increase of 

 49..">(10.000 acres." 



The price of cereals at St. Etienne during three centuries, M. L. J. Gras 

 (Ann. Soc. Agi: [etc.] Loire, 2. scr., 20 (1906), No. 2, pp. 137-15-',) .—The prices 

 of wheat, rye, and oats to the close of the year 1905 are reported and discussed. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The man who works with his hands ( U. 8. Dept. Agr., Office Sec, Circ. 24, 

 pp. H). — This is the address of President Roosevelt at the semicentennial cele- 

 bration of the founding of agricultural colleges in the United States, at Lansing, 

 Mich.. May 31. 1907 (E. S. R., 18, pp. 90G-908). 



Proceedings of the twentieth annual convention of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations held at Baton 

 Rouge, La., November 14-16, 1906, edited by A. C. True, W. H. Beal, and 

 II. C. White (V. »s'. Dept. Agr., Office E.rpt. Stas. Bui. 184, PP- J32, fig. i).— An 

 account of this convention has been given (E. S. R., 18, pp. 406-llG). 



Proceedings of the eleventh annual meeting of the American Association 

 of Farmers' Institute Workers, W. H. Beal and J. Hamilton (U. 8. Dept. 

 Agr.. Office E.rpt. 8tas. Bui. 182, pp. 90). — ^This includes the usual reports from 

 the different States and Territories, the reports of standing and special com- 

 mittees, and papers and addresses on the work of the Illinois Association of 

 Domestic Science on what the institute can do to improve the rural school, to 

 interest the town and city resident in rural life, and to improve and increase 

 crops and live stock, on cooperation in purchasing supplies and marketing prod- 

 ucts, on the improvement of county fairs, on the farm home, and on the relation 

 of institutes to other extension work. 



Agriculture for the high school, K. L. Hatch (Wis. Jour. Ed., 39 (1907), 

 ^''- -'/t PP- 155, 156). — The author suggests four lines of work for a high school 

 course in agriculture of not less than one year, viz, a study of the scientific 

 principles underlying the sub.iect, the application of these principles to economic 

 agriculture, illustrative or laboratory work, and collateral reading. 



Exercises in elementary agriculture, D. J. Crosby (V. 8. Dept. Agr., Office 

 E.rpt. Stas. Bui. 18(!, pp. 64, figs. 40). — This is a series of exercises showing what 

 may be done with inexpensive apparatus in teaching elementary agriculture in 

 the better grade of common schools. It is intended as a laboratory aid for the 

 teacher, and presents a series of 54 progressive exercises in plant production, 

 including 23 on the growth, nutrition, and reproduction of plants and 23 on the 

 environment of the plant, besides a series of 8 brief elementary lessons on corn 

 by (i. F. Warren. There is also a list of text-books and works of reference 

 suital)le for the common school library. 



Agricultural education and the farmer's son, A. D. Hall (Jour. Farmers' 

 Club [London], 1907, Mur., pp. 559-576). — An address before a farmers' club in 



