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Land settlement, agriculture, and live stock (Stntis. YearhooJc [Natal], 

 J906, lip. 69-JO'i). — Detailed statistics for liJOG are reported. The data under 

 agriculture include the number of implements, acreage and yield of crops, labor 

 employed and average wages, and number and size of farms. 



The grain production of the world in the year 1907 (Die Getreidcproduk- 

 tion dcr Welt int Jahre J 907. Budapest: Alin. A(/r., 1907, pp. 109). — The acre- 

 age, production, domestic requirements, and imports and exports of wheat, rye, 

 barley, oats, and corn in the different countries of the world are reportetl. The 

 total production was 3,07G,7S0,000 quintals (338,445,800 tons) as compared with 

 3,251,020,000 (luintals (357,678,200 tons) in 1906. 



[Agricultural statistics of New Zealand], J. D. Ritchie (New Zeal. Dept. 

 Agr. Anil. Rpt., /J (1907), pp. XIX-XL+399-.'i51, dgni. i).— Statistics of 

 land area and land in occupation and cultivation, and the number of holdings, 

 acreage and yields of crops, number of live stoclv, exports of agricultural 

 products, etc., for 1907, in comparison with similar data for preceding years, 

 are tabulated and discussed. 



Season and crop report of the Central Provinces and Berar for the year 

 1906-7, C. W. E. MoNTGOMERiE (Dept. Land Rec. and HettL, Vent. Prov., 

 Season and Crop Rpt. 1906-7, pp. 8+27).— Statistical data on the rainfall, 

 area under cultivation and in the principal crops, yields of crops, retail prices 

 of principal products, extent of irrigation, and number of live stock in each 

 district are reported and discussed. The supply of farm laborers continued 

 scarce during the year owing to the marked development in industrial enter- 

 prises. 



Ocean freight rates and the conditions affecting them, F. Andrews (U. 8. 

 Dept. Agr., Bur. Statis. Bui. 67, pp. JfS). — Statistical data, as bearing upon the 

 exports of the staple farm products of the United States, are reported and 

 discussed. It is shown that there has been a great reduction in ocean freights 

 on such goods during the last 30 years, and the different factors which have 

 contributed in bringing about this reduction are discussed in detail. 



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Status of the training of teachers of home economics in the United States, 

 1907, Alice M. Ober, reported by C. F. Langworthy (Lake Placid Conf. Home 

 Econ. Proc, 9 (1907), pp. 55-77). — This is a report on courses of study in home 

 economics, enti'ance requirements, equipment, number of students, development 

 of the work, kind of positions for which teachers are fitted, and the training 

 which these teachers receive in pedagogics and theories of education in normal 

 schools and State agricultural colleges in the United States. A few of the 

 courses are considered somewhat in detail. Lists of institutions reporting 

 courses in home economics and of those which train teachers in home economics 

 are appended. 



A country agricultural high school, H. O. Sampson (Cornell Countryman, 5 

 (1907), No. 3, pp. 81, 82, figs. 2). — An account of the course of study, labora- 

 tory work, and field practicums of the Cecil County Agricultural School, Cal- 

 vert, Md. 



The Royal Agricultural Academy, Bonn-Poppelsdorf, J. Hansen (Deut. 

 Landw. Presse, 3', (1907), No. 88, pp. 693, 69',, figs. 9).— An account of the 

 historical development and present organization of the Royal Agricultural 

 Academy at P>onn-roi)pelsdorf. 



Institutes and special schools in Switzerland for the improvement of the 

 dairy industry, G. Fascetti (Boh Uffic. Mm. Agr., Indus, e Com. [Rome], 6 

 (1907), VI, No, 1, pp. jy-SO).— This article gives an account of the organization 



