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;uul the neglet't of proprietors iiiul tlio sovorniiiont to provide for the drainage 

 of land, the constriiotioii of roads, and the general encouragement of agricul- 

 ture. I'ractioally the only implements used in Greece are the plough, the hoe, 

 and the reaping hook, except on the estate of the Lake Copias Company, on 

 which modern machinery is employed. Most of this estate of 5o,000 acres is 

 worked hy tenants on farms ranging from 2 to 100 acx"es in size, who pay a 

 rent in kind of 20 per cent of the actual yield of produce. The wages of agri- 

 cultura' laborers range from £2 12s. to £3 7s. per month. 



Tariffs on agricultural and animal products ( f. (S'. Dcpt. Com. and Labor, 

 Bur. Maiifr.. Tariff Scr. \o. 2. pp. 120). — Tabulated schedules of tariff duties on 

 agricultural and animal products imposed by the various countries in the world 

 are reported. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Report on agricultural instruction, 1904-6 (Dcpt. Laiidh., Xijv. en Handel, 

 ^'rr■■<la(^ en Medril. l)!r. Landh.. IIXII, Xo. 1. pp. 2()'i). — This report contains de- 

 tailed statements concerning the organization, faculty, courses of study, attend- 

 ance, etc., of the agricultural institutions of different grades in the Netherlands. 

 These include (1) the Royal Agricultural, Horticultural, and Forestry High 

 School at Wageningen ; (2) Royal Agricultural School, Royal Horticultural 

 School, and Royal People's High School, at Wageningen, and Royal Dairy 

 School at Bolsward ; (.3) royal agricultural and horticultural winter schools, 

 and the communal agricultural winter school at Veendam, and (4) the Gerard 

 Adrian van Swieten Horticultural School. The royal agricultural, horticul- 

 tural, and people's high schools at Wageningen were formerly divisions of the 

 Royal Agricultural School, but when, on September 1, 1904, the latter was en- 

 larged, and became the Royal Agricultural, Horticultural, and Forestry High 

 School, the three divisions mentioned became independent schools. 



Rei)orts are also given on itinerant courses in agriculture and horticulture, 

 agricultural instruction for the army, work of agricultural, horticultural, and 

 dairy instructors, courses in animal husbandry, horses and horseshoeing, the 

 work of associations subsidized by the government, and an account of the agri- 

 cultural instruction given in the armies 6f different countries. 



Preliminary announcement concerning instruction, in practical agricul- 

 ture upon the university farm, Davisville, E. .J. Wickson (California ^Sta. 

 Cire. 20, pp. S). — This circular gives an account of the character of instruction 

 on and eciuipment of the university farm, and an announcement and outlines of 

 short courses for 1907-8. 



Public industrial education, W. M. Hays (Amcr. Mo. Rev. of Revieirs, 35 

 (]!)(j7). \o. .'), pp. .')'.)0. .')'.M). — This is a review of recent legislation for agricul- 

 tural education and research (the Adams Act .and the Nelson Amendment), 

 and a discussion of the provisions of the pending Davis Bill to appropriate about 

 .$8,(M)0,000 annually for Industrial education in high schools of secondary grade. 



Improvement of rural education in Great Britain {County Council and 

 Agr. Rec., .?.> (1907), ^'o. S'/G. pp. 132-13 'i).— The County Councils Association, 

 at its meeting March 27, adopted a i-eport nf its rural education subconnnittee 

 dealing with the manner in which education in rural or agricultural subjects 

 can Itest be fostered in the pul)lic elementary schools and evening schools in 

 nu-al districts. * 



The rei)ort deals fix'st with the nature of instruction in reading, wa'iting, com- 

 position, arithmetic, nature study, drawing, and manual work, and maintains 

 that all of these subjects should be tnugbt with tlie idea of giving local ai)plica- 

 tion to the instruction. Reading, for exami)le, should include considerable his- 



