190 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Cooperative banks for agriculture (A^atal Agr. Jour, and Min. Rec, 10 

 {1001), No. 3, pp. 2Jio-2-'}l). — A discussion of some of the results accomplished 

 in promotin.!;; tlie economic welfare of the poorer classes of farmers and tenants 

 by the establishment of agricultural cooperative banks. 



Land banks versus credit banks, E. T. Mullens (Natal Agr. Jour, and Min. 

 Rcc, 10 (191)7), No. 5, pp. -'iS5--'iSS). — The difference in functions of land banks 

 and credit banks and the advantages of their establishment in Natal are dis- 

 cussed. The former advance money on the security of freehold land to pro- 

 prietors, while the latter, as mutual loan societies, primarily seek to aid tenant 

 farmers on the basis of personal credit. 



The need for farm statistics in estimating the cost of production (Rhode- 

 sian Agr. Jour., 4 (1907), No. J/, pp. 333-3JfJt). — This article was compiled on the 

 basis of Minnesota Station Bulletin 97 (E. S. R., 18, p. GSG), with changes made 

 to make its facts and principles applicable to the conditions in Rhodesia. 



Crop Reporter (['. ;S'. Dept. Agr., Bur. Stat is. Crop Reporter, 9 (1907), No. 

 8, pp. 57-6Ji). — Data on the condition of cro])s and on the supplies, value, and 

 prices of agricultural products in the United States and foreign countries are 

 summarized and discussed. A table gives the principal groups of domestic 

 exports of farm and forest products during the fiscal years 1906 and 1907. 



Kansas — her story and statistics (Quart. Rpt. Kans. Bd. Agr., 26 (1907), 

 No. 101, pp. .'i-'i'i, map 1). — Detailed information of each county of the State as 

 regards area, population, resoiu'ces, railways, products, public lands, etc., with 

 a history of the development of Kansas since 18(55. The report also contains 

 the addresses, papers, and discussions at the annual meeting of the Kansas State 

 Board of Agriculture, January 9-11, 1907, and a resume of commercial sugar- 

 beet production in Kansas. The statistical data regarding agriculture have been 

 noted from another source (E. S. R., 18, p. 1171). 



Tenth report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Labor, and Industry of the 

 State of Montana, J. A. Fercuson and L. P. Benedict (Rpt. Bur. Agr., Labor, 

 and Indus. Mont., 10 (1906), pp. VI+Jj78, pis. 29, figs. 25).— This is a detailed 

 report on the. lands, irrigation, agriculture, labor, industries, and other economic 

 and social forces of Montana for -the year ending November 30, 1900. 



The various agricultural industries and methods of culture practiced are 

 described, accounts are given of the farmers' organizations, creameries, live 

 stock, and wool production of the State, and statistics are presented and dis- 

 cussed for the purpose of showing the State's agricultural development which 

 " warrant the prediction that Montana is destined in the near future to take 

 high place among the really great agricultural States in the Union." 



Annual bulletin of the Nebraska Bureau of Statistics, B. Bush and D. C. 

 Despain (Ann. Bui. Bur. Siatix. Nehr., o (1906), pp. T2S). — Detailed statistical 

 data of each county of the State covering such subjects as land values, crop 

 production and values, shipment of various products, classifications of land and 

 the areas thereof, census of fruits, population of towns, railway mileage, freight 

 charges of the State in comparison with the rates in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, 

 and Kansas, etc. The value of products shipped in 1905, the bulk of which was 

 of an agricultural nature, was .$279,72o,.378. 



Trade and agriculture of the Piraeus and district for the year 1906, E. 

 MacDonelx, et al. (Diplo. and Cons. Rpts. [London], Ann. Ser., 1907, No. 3785, 

 pp. 33). — In addition to statistics on the general trade relations of the Pirfpus 

 for 1900, notes are given on the agricultural conditions of the district. 



The peasantry of Greece ai'e said to be remarkably poor though highly intelli- 

 gent and industrious. The causes assigned for lack of progress in economic and 

 social conditions are the want of jmlice protection, the prevalence of malaria, 

 the absence of agricultural banks, the lack of modern agricultural implements, 



