STATISTICS. 199 



Edinburgh corn-market grain tables for -wheat, barley, oats, and beans ( Trans. 

 Highland and Agl. Soc. Scotland, 5. ser., 8 {1896), pp. 348-354) .—The tables show the 

 quantity sold; and the highest, lowest, and average prices for each kind of grain for 

 every market day, also the results for every month and for the year 1895. 



The Woburn Experiment Farm, J. A. Voelckkh (Jour. Roy. Agl. Soc. England, 

 3. ser., 8 (1897), No. 2, pp. 258-292, figs. 4). 



Distribution of the principal agricultural exports of the United States dur- 

 ing the five years ended June 30, 1896 ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Section of Foreign Mar- 

 kets Circ. 13, pp. 24). 



Special legislation against the adulteration of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, and 

 seeds, M. Petermann (Rapports Pre'liminaires 3 e Congres Inter nat. d'Agr., Bruxelles, 

 1895, pp. 37-47).— An address. 



Hamburg as a market for< American products ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Section of Foreign 

 Markets Circ. 14, pp. 10). — Tables are given showing the value of the total merchan- 

 dise imported into Hamburg, including that received from the United States during 

 each of the 5 years 1891 to 1895 inclusive; and the total value of the merchandise 

 exported, including that sent to the United States, during the same period; togetber 

 with the report of United States Consul W. H. Robertson, giving facts and sugges- 

 tions relative to our trade, with that city. 



Agriculture in Finland, G. (Jrotenfelt (Landtbruket i Finland. Helsingfors: 

 Went:el Hagelstan, 1896, pp. 291, photo-engravings 11, maps 10). — This work, by the 

 Director of the Unstiala Agricultural and Dairy Institute, is more than a description 

 of agriculture in Finland. It gives a complete survey of the social economic condi- 

 tions of Finland of to-day, and of Finish agriculture, as will be apparent from an 

 enumeration of the main topics treated in the book: I. Agriculture in Finland: (1) 

 geography and topography; (2) geology; (3) climate; (4) population, distribution, 

 occupations, etc. ; (5) administration, cameralistics; (6) commerce and means of com- 

 munication; (7) agriculture and agricultural products, yields, imports, and exports, 

 agricultural machinery; (8) animal husbandry; (9) dairying; (10) forestry; (11) 

 horticulture; (12) game and tish. II. Measures for the advancement of agriculture: 

 (1) administration; (2) educational institutions; (3) agricultural chemical laborato- 

 ries and seed control stations; (4) scientific work in agriculture; (5) agricultural 

 literature; (fi) agricultural conditions, fairs, etc.; (7) measures for the amelioration 

 of the lack of farming capital ; (8) agricultural and kindred societies; (9) agriculture 

 in Finland's budget. 



The author has been very fortunate in his treatment of the subject ; the presentation 

 is clear and succinct, and a large amount of interesting and important information 

 concerning Finnish agricultural conditions has been incorporated in the book. The 

 statistical and tabular matter included is from official sources, and in all cases is 

 brought up to date. A Finnish edition of the book will be published in the near 

 future; an English or German translation would form a most valuable addition to 

 our available agricultural literature. — F. F. WOLL. 



