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third of the cost of any road, the other two-thirds to be paid by the locality where 

 the road is built. The actual construction of the road so built is to be under the 

 immediate supervision of the local authorities, the State commission simply deter- 

 mining, in a general way, what the character of the road shall be, and requiring, 

 before the State pays any money for the improvement, that the road shall be con- 

 structed according to plans which it has approved." 



Historical review of the work preparatory to the outlining of a general law 

 for the purposes of draining and irrigating land (Selsk. Khoz. i Lyesov., 186 (189?), 

 Sept., pp. 481-554). 



Cultivation under artesian irrigation, C. H. Gorman (Ayr. Gaz. New South 

 Wales, 9 (1898), pt. 5, pp. 535-537). — A discussion of artesian irrigation and its possi- 

 bilities. 



Hydrotechnical works and agricultural investigations in the region of the 

 Siberian railway (Selsk. Ehoz. i Lyesov., 184 (1897), Mar., pp. 4S1-502). 



Report of the provincial instructor in road making, Ontario, 1897, A. W. 

 Campbell (Ontario Dept. Agr., Bpt. Provisional Instructor in Boad Making 1897, pp. 

 71, pis. 8, figs. 10). — This report contains articles on good roads — a national problem, 

 country roads, and the good roads movement: municipal and county reports on 

 roads and road making; report of the Brantford board of trade on the streets of that 

 city; report on the streets of Guelph, Ontario; extracts from a report on streets to 

 the city of St. John, New Brunswick; and notes on the frontage- tax system. 



STATISTICS— MISCELLANEOUS. 



Tenth Annual Report of Mississippi Station, 1897 (Mississippi Sta. Bpt. 1897, 

 pp. 23). — Brief reports by the director and heads of departments, including the report 

 of the chemist, noted on page 315, and a financial statement for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1897. Some results secured in the irrigation of strawberries and vegetables 

 are briefly recorded in the report of the horticulturist. 



Reports of director and treasurer of North Dakota Station, 1897 (North 

 Dakota Sta. Bpt. 1S97, pp. 3-8, 82, 83). — Brief report on the work of the year and a 

 financial statement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. 



The world's markets for American products — Norway and Sweden ( U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Section of Foreign Markets Bui. 7, pp. 68, ma}) 1; 8, pp. 92, map 1). — 

 Revised editions f E. S. R., 8, pp. 175, 637). 



Crop circulars for July, August, and September, 1898, J. Hyde ( U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Division of Statistics Crop Circs. July, Aug., and Sept., pp. 4 each). — These con- 

 tain the usual data relative to conditions of farm and orchard crops during these 

 months, with summarized temperature and rainfall records for the same periods, and 

 a discussion of the foreign crop situation in the July and August reports. 



Experiment Station Work — V ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 78, pp. 31, figs. 2). — 

 The following popular articles appear in this number of the Office of Experiment 

 Stations series of Farmers' Bulletins; Hunuis rn soils; swamp, marsh, or muck soils; 

 rape; velvet bean; sunflowers; winter protection of peach trees; subwatering in 

 greenhouses; bacterial diseases of plants; and grape juice and sweet cider. 



Experiment Station Work— VI ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 79, pp. 28, figs. 2). — 

 The sixth bulletin of this popular series prepared in the Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions. The following subjects are treated : Fraud in fertilizers, sugar-beet industry, 

 seeding grass land, grafting apple trees, forest fires, American clover seed, mushrooms 

 as food, pigs in stubble fields, ensiling potatoes, and anthrax. 



Accessions to the Department library, April-June, 1898 ( U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Library Bui. 23, pp. 25). 



The Department of Agriculture and its work, G. W. Hill ( U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Division of Publications, Doc. 278, pp. 11, figs. 2).— Brief notes on the organization of 

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