398 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



the bureaus, offices, and divisions of this Department, with a diagram of the Depart- 

 ment grounds in Washington, D. C. 



Report of education committee on the results of the examination in agricul- 

 ture, 1898 (Join: Boy. Agr. Soc. England, 3. ser., 9 {1808), pt. II, No. 34, pp. 377-387).— 

 An examination for the diploma in tbe science and practice of agriculture given by 

 the Royal Agricultural Society of England. The subjects of the examination were 

 agriculture, chemistry, bookkeeping, mensuration and land surveying, agricultural 

 engineering, botany, geology, veterinary science, and agricultural entomology. 

 Tbe questions for each subject are given. 



Agricultural monograph of the Department of Drome, B RE he ret {Bui. Mm, 

 Agr. [France], 17 {1898), No. 4, pp. S11-S67). — This monograph discusses soil and 

 climate, crops, animals, fertilizers and soil amendments, tillage, agricultural and 

 associated industries, land improvements, rural economy, and encouragement to 

 agriculture and agricultural education. 



Agricultural monograph of the Department of Gironde, P. VassilliERE {Bui. 

 Min. Agr. [France], 17 {1898), No. 1, pp. 73-144). — Discusses soil and climate, crops, 

 animals, fertilizers and soil amendments, tillage, agricultural and associated indus- 

 tries, land improvements, rural economy, and encouragement to agriculture and 

 agricultural education. 



Tea districts of the subtropical regions of Asia, A. N. Kkasxov (Pt. 1, Japan. 

 St. Petersburg, 1897, pp. XXII+244. Jigs. 101, maps 2. Ft. 2, China, India, Ceylon, and 

 Colchis. St. Petersburg, 1S9S, pp. 247 -\-61S, figs. 97. Rev. in Selsk. Khoz. i Lyesov., 189 

 (1898), May, p. 470). 



Proceedings of the fourth meeting of the Agricultural Council (Selsk. Khoz. i 

 Lyesov., 189 (1898), June, pp. 481+576; 190 (1898), July, pp. 1-88).— Chiefly devoted 

 to the elaborating of general statutes for agricultural schools.— p. fireman. 



The foundations of scientific agriculture, S. Cooke (London, New York, and Bom- 

 bay : Longmans, Green # Co., 1897, pp. 268, pi. 1, figs. 85).— This is atext-book intended 

 for use in the provincial schools and colleges of India, the larger part of which was 

 originally prepared in the form of lectures for use in the instruction of students of 

 agriculture, engineering, and forestry at the Poona College of Science. The subjects 

 Heated are air and water; sunshine, rain, and climate; rnck-forming minerals; soil- 

 forming rocks; soil-forming agencies; varieties, classification, composition, and 

 analyses of soil; relation of plant food to the atmosphere and the soil— plant growth 

 and architecture; nature and varieties of crops: manures for the soil and crops; the 

 cultivator and his art; and measurements, etc. A glossary of terms and a series of 

 examination questions are given, as well as appendixes containing a list of the strat- 

 ified rocks of the British Isles, with their economic contents; an account of an 

 experiment with manures prepared from street sweepings; and a discussion of the 

 educational uses of famine. 



The work is adapted especially to the needs of the Indian agriculturist, the illus- 

 trations of principles being drawn from tbe climatic soil, crop, and social and 

 economic conditions which obtain in India. 



A chapter of especial interes't is that devoted to the characteristics and culture 

 of Indian crops. 



