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articles noted elsewhere, and an appendix containing notes on the organization of 

 the Department, the agricultural colleges and experiment stations, agricultural sta- 

 tistics, composition of feeding stuffs and farm products, feeding standards, analyses 

 of fertilizers, amount and value of barnyard manure produced by different farm ani- 

 mals, methods of controlling injurious insects, preparation and use of insecticides 

 and fungicides, a cheap orchard spraying outfit, seed standards, hawks and owls, 

 timber, lumber, and wood, irrigation, number, weight, and cost of grass seeds and 

 the amount to sow per acre, metric system, Department publications, and a compre- 

 hensive index. 



Crop report for November, 1897 (U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Statistics Ept. 

 154, n. ser., pp. 4). — This gives preliminary estimates of the average yields per acre 

 and average quality of certain crops in the United States, and a review of the forage 

 crop situation wilh especial reference to wheat. 



Austria-Hungary as a factor in the world's grain trade ; recent use of Ameri- 

 can wheat in that country, F. 11. Hitchcock ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Section of Foreign 

 Markets Circ. 19, pp. 23). — This includes a report by United States Consul G. R. Ernst 

 relative to the present wheat shortage in Austria-Hungary and the importation into 

 that country of American grain, and statistics on the production and importation 

 ami exportation of wheat and other grains for the years 1886 to 1895, inclusive. The 

 statistics show that "not only in the case of wheat, but also in that of the various 

 other cereals, the tendency has been toward a larger home consumption of the 

 national product and a consequent reduction of the surplus available for shipment 

 to other lands. To such an extent have the exports declined and the imports 

 increased that most of the cereals are now brought into the country in larger quan- 

 tities than they are exported. Barley is the only grain of Which any considerable 

 amount continues to be shipped abroad." 



Exports of animals and their products, D. E. Salmon ( U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Bureau of Animal Industry Circ. 17, j>p.3). — This gives statistics relative to the ex- 

 ports of animals and animal products from the United States to all other countries 

 and to the United Kingdom for the fiscal years 188!I-'!M>. 



Synoptical index of the reports of the statistician, 1863 to 1895, G. F. Thome 

 BON and G. W. Hill ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Publications Bui. .', pp. .'.-.vi, 



An ideal department of agriculture and industries, E. TlSSERAND (U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Yearbook 1896, pp. 543-554). — This is reprinted from the Report of the Recess 

 Committee (House of Commons) on the Establishment of a Department of Agricul- 

 ture and Industries for Ireland, London, 1897. 



The author discusses the necessity for a department of agriculture, fundamental 

 principles of a department of agriculture, methods of control in France, encourage- 

 ment of private agricultural schools, cooperative agricultural experiments, securing 

 scientific assistants, the scope of a department of agriculture, functions of an Irish 

 department of agriculture, divisions of ministry of agriculture, qualifications of a 

 minister aud of heads of diverse consultative bodies, and permanent technical 

 committees. 



Experiment stations, fields, and laboratories of the southwestern section of 

 Russia and apian of unification of their work, Yanoushevski (Zemledijelie, 1S9H, 

 No. 13). 



Agriculture in the Transcaspian region, A. Rodzevitch (Selsk. Khoz. i Lgesov., 

 1S9G, No. 1). 



Agriculture in Buenos Ayres (Mitt. Deut. Landic. Gesell., 12 (lS97),No. 20, Suppl. 

 pp. 113-120). — The climate, soil, vegetatiou, aud commerce of the province are dis- 

 cussed. Crop statistics are given. 



Agricultural calendar for Finland (La ndtbruks-kalender for Finland. Prepared 

 bji Landtbruks stijrelsen, Helsingfors, 1S97, pp. 114). — Gives a complete directory of the 

 officers of agricultural educational and investigational institutions and agricultural 

 and horticultural societies; regulations for the periodical Finnish butter exhibitions, 

 and the various societies and associations for the advancement of Finnish agri- 

 culture. — F. w. WOLL. 



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