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the general work of the year, including detailed statements of the receipts and 

 expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, together with an appendix of 

 22 station bulletins and a spray calendar issued during the year ended December 

 31, 1895. 



Crop report for September, 1897, J. Hyde ( U. S. Dept. Jgr., Division of Statistics 

 Bpt. 152, n. ser., pp. 4). — The usual notes on crop conditions, with a discussion of the 

 wheat situation and tabulated data showing the average condition of crops Septem- 

 ber 1,1897. 



Crop report for October, 1897, J.Hyde (U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Statistics 

 Bpt. 153, n. ser., pp. 4). — The crop conditions for the month arc discussed and a review 

 given of the foreign crop situation as reported by the Hungarian and the French 

 ministers of agriculture. 



Report on crops, live stock, etc., in Manitoba (Manitoba Dept Agr. and Immi- 

 gration Bui. 53, op. ID). — Statistics relative to the " condition of crops and live 

 stock, probable yield per acre of the various kinds of grains, the quantities of land 

 broken for the first time this season;" rainfall of the different districts for the 4 

 months ending with July, and general remarks on crop conditions quoted from 

 correspondents. 



Crops and live stock in Ontario (Ontario Bureau Industries Bui. 62, pp. 16). — 

 August crop report, with statistics of the live stock on Ontario farms on hand July 

 1, 1895-'96-'97, and remarks by crop correspondents. 



Agricultural statistics of the dominion of the Hungarian Crown (A magyar 

 Icorona orszdgainak mezogazdasagi statisztikaja. Vol. I. Compiled by the Hungarian 

 Statistical Bureau. Budapest, 1897, pp. X, 226, 765). 



Report of the farm superintendent, \V. Rennie ( Ontario Agr. Col. and Expt. 

 Farm Bi>t. 1896, pp. 203-210). — A summary of the improvements made, the crops 

 grown, the methods of cultivation, the feeding of live stock, the practical instruc- 

 tion given to students, and the annual sale of surplus stock. 



Abstract from the report of the experimentalist, C. A. Zavitz (Ontario Agr. 

 Col. and Expt. Farm Bpt. 1896, pp. 117-1.'..'). — Prefatory notes to the complete report 

 of the work done during the year concerning the equipment and the work of the 

 station, the reports and bulletins issued, the correspondence carried on, and the 

 methods of conducting the grain experiments. Abstracts of the experiments appear 

 elsewhere. 



Guide to the Central Experimental Farm [Canada] for 1897, -with plan show- 

 ing the location of the buildings, -with particulars of the arrangement of the 

 different crops and groups of experimental plats for the season of 1897, W. 

 Saunders (Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1897, pp. 14, map 1). 



Farmers' institutes in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dept. Agr. Bui. 26, pp. 74). — 

 Suggestions on methods of conducting farmers' institutes, with a schedule of the 

 institutes to be held in the State during the season of 1897-'98, a list of the lectures, 

 with their subjects and appointments, and a list of the dates and places where insti- 

 tutes were held last season. 



Second report of the committee on the methods of teaching agriculture 

 (U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Circ. 37, pp. 4). — This is a report of 

 progress presented by the committee to the Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations at the convention held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

 July 13-15, 1897, suggesting additional subjects to be included in the four years' 

 course in agriculture leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science, and the number 

 of hours to be devoted to each; with a synopsis of the course suggested in agricul- 

 tural work and statements showing in a general way the equipment required in 

 connection with this course. 



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