296 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Report on road making, A. W. Campbell | Rpt. Provincial Instructor in Road 

 Making, Ontario. 1896, pp. 80, ph. 8, figs. 3). — This report is divided into 3 parte, coun- 

 try roads, town streets, and an appendix including miscellaneous reports, road 

 laws, etc. The topics treated under the head of country roads are statute and con- 

 vict labor, existing roads, road metal, rolling country roads, drainage of macadam 

 roads, dimensions of country loads, crowning the road, hills, embankments and 

 cuttings, location of roads, repair and maintenance, road machinery, bridges and 

 culverts, wagon tires, instruction for pathmasters. snow obstructions, artistic treat- 

 ment of roads, and development of roads in Ontario. Under the head of town 

 streets the subjects discussed are street improvement, choice of pavements, macad- 

 amized town streets, and form of specification for macadam streets. The plates show 

 typical examples of good and badly managed roads, bridges, and road machinery. 



STATISTICS. 



Local taxation as affecting farms (U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of 

 Statistics Circ. 5, pp. 16). — Investigations were made by this Depart- 

 ment for the purpose of studying the possible effect of assessing culti- 

 vated and uncultivated lands alike. Special agents of the Department 

 visited 1,114 selected farms in the extreme eastern and western sections 

 of Kew York and obtained from "the owner of each farm his personal 

 estimate of the market value of his entire visible property, separating 

 the buildings from the land and also separating from the actual value 

 of the land in its primitive form the value given to it by cultivation." 

 The statistics thus secured are tabulated and discussed. The unim- 

 proved value of these farms is shown to be about 40 per cent of the 

 improved value. Similar data obtained from Massachusetts show the 

 unimproved value of land in cities to be about 58 per cent of its 

 improved value. It is thus evident that if taxes were assessed on land 

 at its unimproved value — its value without buildings, fences, drains, or 

 cultivation — great advantage would accrue to the farmer. 



Eighth Annual Report of Alabama College Station, 1895 (Alabama College Sta. 

 Rpt. 1895, pp. 32). — A financial report is given for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 l s 9">. together with brief reports by the heads of departments on the work of the 

 year, and an index of the bulletins and report of the station published during 1895. 



Ninth Annual Report of Colorado Station, 1896 (Colorado Sta. Rpt. 1896, pp. 

 SO-191). — A financial report is given for the fiscal year ending June HO, 18'J6. and a 

 discussion by the director on the general management and present status of the sta- 

 tion and substations, outlining work of the year, and giving a list of all bulletins 

 and reports published by the station. Reports by the agricultural, horticultural, 

 chemical, entomological, and meteorological and irrigation sections and of the super- 

 intendents of the San Luis Valley, Arkansas Valley, and Rainbelt substations, parts 

 of which appear elsewhere, are also given. 



Annual Report of Florida Station, 1896 (Florida Sta. Rpt. 1896, pp. 95).— This 

 includes the reports of the director and heads of departments at the home station 

 and of the superintendents at De Funiak and Myers substations on the work of the 

 year, parts of which appear elsewhere, and a financial statement for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1896. 



The farmers' interest in finance ( V. S. Dept. Ayr.. Division of Statistics Circ • ■', pp. 

 15, map 1, dgm. 1). — This gives tabular data compiled largely from the Eleventh Cen- 

 sus report showing the population, education, wealth, etc., of the States voting at 

 the last Presidential election for the maintenance of the present gold standard and 



