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Area and yield of certain principal crops in India. F. Noel-Paton (Area 

 011(1 Yield I'riiiv. Crotis {hidUt Com. Intel. I)(i>t.\, !> (IS!I2-1'.)U7 ) , j)/). II1+.',S). — 

 .Suniniarized statements of nieteorolo^ik-al conditions affecting the different crops, 

 togetlier with tahnlated data as to acreage and yields, for the seasons from 

 18!)2-!)3 to 1000-7 are reported. 



[Agricultural statistics of South Australia] (Stati>i. Reg. So. Aust., 1906, pt. 

 S, pp. 1-9')). — Statistical data nii laud areas, extent nnder cultivation, kinds 

 and yields of crops, number and classes of live stock, etc., are reported for the 

 year IJlOG. 



Yearbook of economics, R. Calwer (Jahrhuch dcr M'eltwirtschaft. Jena, 

 1907. pp. XVII +29'/). — The chapter on agriculture in this publication gives 

 statistics on the world's cereal acreage and production and the number of live 

 stock by countries in 190,"i t-omitared with similar data for i)receding years. The 

 prices of such products in the chief markets of the world are included. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The agricultural college and its relationship to the scheme of National 

 education, E. J. Wickson (California Sta. Circ. 31, pp. 7). — This is an address 

 delivered at the meeting of the National Education Association at Los Angeles, 

 Cal.. in July. 1907, and deals with the development of agricultural education in 

 this country and the work of the agricultural college in demonstrating the edu- 

 cational value of agricultural studies and in preparing teachers to render that 

 value available. The writer believes that the agricultural college should assume 

 a position of leadership " in the most important work of rendering the curricula 

 of the lower schools more rational, their nu'terials better suited to their environ- 

 ment and more effective in helping the youth to find himself in life woi-k and 

 associations." 



Foreign agricultural instruction and organization (La Ensenanza y la 

 Orfiunizuc'Kjii Agricolas en el Extranjero. Madrid: Min. Fomento, Dir. Gen. 

 Agr., Indus, y Com., 1907, pp. 329). — Part 1 gives a brief account of the organ- 

 ization and present status of agricultural education in Germany, Austria, Bel- 

 gimn, the T'nited States, France, Holland. Hungary. England, Italy, Japan, 

 Portugal, Russia. Sweden, and Switzerland, together with more detailed informa- 

 tion concerning some of the leading institutions. Part 2 describes the organiza- 

 tion of the ministries of agriculture in Belgium, France, England, and Italy, and 

 of this Department. Appendixes give the appropriations for and expenditures 

 by the ministries of agriculture of Germany (for 190.3), Belgium (for 1906), 

 T'nited States (for 1904. 190.5. and 190G). France, England (for 190G-7), and 

 Italy (for 190.5-0). 



Agricultural education in England and Wales (Bd. Agr. and F'isheries 

 {London]. Leaflet 197. pp. 17). — This leatiet contains a brief summary of the 

 facilities for instruction in agriculture, dairying, horticulture, poulti'y keeping, 

 and forestry in the colleges and institutions aided by the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries and the county councils in England and Wales; supplementary 

 notes regarding each of the colleges as to length of 'course, tuition fees, and 

 experimental farms maintained by the county councils in connection v.ilh these 

 institutions for practical instruction and exiierimental work ; and notes on 

 institutions not receiving grants from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 and on count.v work. 



Early agricultural education in Massachusetts, F. H. Fowi.kr (Agr. of 

 Mass., 1906. pp. 332-396). — This is a compilation of notes and other data partly 

 from official rejKjrts and ])artly from other iniblished data concerning dis- 

 cussions, legislation, and other action relating to agricultural education in 



