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DIVISION OF STATISTICS. 



Eeport No. 02 (new series), January and February, 1S02 (pp. 

 44). — This iucludes articles on the number and value of farm animals; 

 cotton crop; European crop report; notes on foreign agriculture; new 

 railway construction, 1891; and rates of transportation com])anics. 



The following summaries of the number and value of farm animals in 

 the United States, as estimated for January 1, 1891 and 1892, are taken 

 from the bulletin: 



Xumber and value of farm animals. 



DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY. 

 Bulletin No. 31. 



Proceedings of the eighth annual roNVEXTTON or rur. Asso- 

 riATioN OF Official Agkicultuual Ciikmisis (p]». 2."»3, tigs. 8). — 

 These are lor the meeting of the As.sociation hi'hl at \\ ashiiigton, D. C, 

 August 13, 14, and 15, 1891, and are edited by II. \\ . Wiley, secretary 

 of the Association. Reports on methods and results of aiialy.scs are 

 given on the following subjects: Fermented liquors, Ity W. IJ. Kisiiig; 

 dairy products, by W. W. Cooke; feeding stuft's low in <arbohy- 

 drates, by C. D. Woods; cattle foods rich in carbohydrates, by A. E. 

 Kiiorr; nitrogen, by W. Frear; i)hosi)horic acid, by 11. A. Ilu.ston; 

 potash, by H. B. Battle; soils, by K. C. Kedzie; and sugar, V)y W. C. 

 Stubbs. In most casest hese rejjorts contain brief abstracts of the liter- 

 ature of the different subjects for the time covered by the report. 

 There are also included the otlicisil methods adoi»te(l by the Associati(»n 

 for the analysis of fertilizers, feeding stutls, dairy products, fermented 

 liquors, and sugar, and elective methods; reports of the committees on 

 the formation of a national chemical society, on a chemical exhilut at 

 the VVoild's Columbian l-^xposition, and on atomic weights; the method of 

 the U. S. Internal Revenue Office for the analysis of sugars; the table of 

 revised atomic weights adopted by the Association; and the following 

 papers: A Brief Review of the History and Present Condition of Efforts 

 for the Establishment of Uniformity in Methods of Technical Chemical 



