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experiment stations received by the Office of Experiment Stations during 1897, and 

 the Federal legislation relating to the colleges and stations and the rulings of the 

 Treasury, Post-Office, and Agricultural Departments as to the construction of the 

 act of Congress of March 2, 1887, establishing the stations, are included. 



Truth about agricultural depression ; an economic study of the evidences of 

 the Royal Commission, F. A. Channing (London: Longmans Green $ Co., 1897, pp. 

 388).— The author sums up and analyzes the data accumulated by the recent Royal 

 Commission appointed to investigate the causes of agricultural depression in Eng- 

 land. The history of the decline of British agriculture, past and present methods 

 of farming, economic relationship of landlords and tenants, etc., are discussed at 

 length. Excessive rents is believed to be the chief cause of the depression. 



Agricultural statistics of the province of South Australia, 1896 (South Aus- 

 tralia Stat. Reg., 1897, pt. 3, pp. S3). — This gives returns showing the total acreage of 

 occupied and cultivated land, acreage of each of the different farm and orchard 

 crops and the produce therefrom, stands of bees and the honey product, number and 

 kinds of live stock, wool production, etc., of each district and county of the Prov- 

 ince for the year ending March 31, 1*97. The number of mills and manufactories, 

 rates of wages, prices of raw and manufactured product, etc.. are also given. In 

 some instances similar data are given for preceding years for comparison. 



Statistics of the land-grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations in 

 the United States ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations But. 51, pp. 39). — 

 A summary of the data contained in this bulletin has already appeared (E. 8. 11., 9, 

 p. 701). 



Proceedings of the eleventh annual convention of the Association of Amer- 

 ican Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, A. C. True and H. H. 

 Goodell ( r. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Station* Bnl. 49, pp. 100, jig. 1). — 

 This gives the officers and committees of the Association and the proceedings of the 

 convention held at Minneapolis, Minn., July 13-15, 1897, an account of which has 

 already appeared (E. S. B., 9, p. 303). In addition to the general business and dis- 

 cussions the following papers are included: Evolution of agricultural education, 

 G. T. Fairchild; Advertising in Experiment Station publications, A. C. True; An 

 experiment, its conception and methods of procedure, H. L. Bolley; How may uni- 

 versity extension work be best conducted by the colleges of agriculture, I. P. Rob- 

 erts; Preparatory teaching in agricultural colleges, E. W. Hilgard; Preparatory 

 work in agricultural colleges. W. M. Hays; Science vs. art, I. P. Roberts; Methods 

 of keeping records of horticultural work at the State Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Geneva, N. Y., S. A Beach; The importance of mycophagy in a course on 

 botanical instruction, H. N. Starnes; Classification of varieties of peaches, R. H. 

 Price; Horticultural education in Minnesota, S. B. Green; A bacterial disease of 

 cabbage and allied plants, H. L. Russell; Development of electrical engineering in 

 Utah, J. Jensen; and A calorimetric determination of the heating value of corn, 

 C. R. Richards. 



Teaching agriculture and the sciences, O. Pavette (L'enseignement des sciences et 

 de V agriculture. Paris: Fernand Nathan, 189S, pp. 36). — A revised edition for the use 

 of instructors. 



The new chemical institute of the University of Breslau, Schoi.tz and 

 Klingenstein (Chem. Zt;/., !l (1897), No. 51, pp. 501-503, figs. 3). 



Public laboratory and experiment station in Johannesburg (South African 

 Republic), J. Loeyy (Chem. Ztg., 21 (1S97), No. 09, pp. 677, 678, fig. 1).—A plan and 

 description of the new building opened in May, 1897. 



Report of the chemical and seed control station at Skara, 1896, < >. Xylaxder 

 (Skara (Sweden), 1897, pp. 16). 



On government control of fertilizers, feeding stuffs, and seeds in Sweden 

 (Landtmannen, 8 (1897), Nos. 18, pp. 243-247 ; 19, pp. 259-264). 



The chemical plant biological station at Lulea, Sweden (Landtmannen, 8 

 (1897), No. 6, pp. 71-76). 



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