MISCELLANEOUS. 305 



The leading agricultural imports during 1901, mentioned in the order of tlieir 

 importance, were nugar, coffee, hides and skins, silk, vegetable libers, fruits and nuts, 

 tobacco, Avool, and tea, and the leading agricultural exports were cotton, wheat, corn, 

 wheat flour, lard, cattle, bacon, fresh beef, leaf tobacco, ham, oil cake and oil-cake 

 meal, and cotton-seed oil. 



Agricultural imports of the United Kingdom, 1896-1900, F. H. Hitchcock 

 ( r. ,S. Dcpt. Agr., Sedio)i of Foreign Morkctx l>al. JH, pp. ^27). — Statistical tables are 

 given showing the kinds, values, and quantities of the agricultural imports from the 

 different countries of supply for each of the 5 years 1896-1900. The total value of the 

 agricultural imports in 1900 was $1,578,000,000, or 62 per cent of the entire import 

 trade of the United Kingdom. The United States supplied about 33 per cent of the 

 agricultural produce. 



Suggestions to pioneer farmers in Alaska, C. C. Georgeson {Alaska Sta. Bui. 

 1, pp. Jo, pis. 7). — This bulletin discusses clearing and draining land under Alaskan 

 conditions, ijoints out liriefly the value of oxen as work animals, and gives directions 

 for the construction of a log silo. The sterility of new ground in Alaska, to which 

 attention has been called in former publications (E. S. R., 13, p. 125), is again discussed, 

 and methods of bringing these soils to a satisfactory state of fertility are recommended. 



Agricultural monograph of the Polder region of Belgium {Monographie 

 agrlcole de la region desFolders. Brussels: Ministrn of . igriculture, 1902, lyp. VI -\- 85). — 

 The region discussed in this monograph is a zone 10 to 15 kilometers wide, running 

 parallel with the coast from Furnes to Knocke. As in previous monographs of this 

 series (E. S. R., 13, pp. 723, 799), the subjects discussed are climate and soil (see 

 p. 230), agricultural operations (plant and animal production and agricultural man- 

 ufacturing industries), permanent improvements, and the agricultural regime. 



Teaching agriculture in Germany, II, J. Vaxdervaekex {Bui. Agr. \_Brussels'], 

 18 { 1002) , No. 2, pp. IGO-l'jS). — A brief sunnnary of the different kinds of schools and 

 methods of teaching agriculture in Germany. 



Teaching agriculture in Austria, J. Vaxdervaeren {Bui. Agr. [/>ri(.«(V.s], 18 

 {1902), Ko. 2, pp. 199-213). — A summary of methods and courses in agriculture in 

 Austria. 



Practical agriculture, C. C. James {Xew York: D. Appleton A Co., 1902, pp.203, 

 fgs. 90). — This book, the American edition of Avhich is edited by John Craig, dis- 

 cusses the plant, the soil, the most common and important field and garden crops, 

 the orchard, the vineyard, stock raising and dairying, and presents a chapter each 

 on bees, birds, forestry, roads, and the rural home. 



Practical manual for the farmer, L. Beuret and R. Bkunet {Manuel prcdique de 

 ragriculleur. Paris: L. Mulo, 1901, pp. 640-^-36, figs. 115). — This book is divided into 

 3 parts, the first being devoted to meteorology, soils, fertilizers, drainage, irrigation, 

 cultivation, and machinery; the second to cereals, industrial plants, viticulture, 

 meadows, forage crops, horticulture, sylviculture, insects, and plant diseases, and the 

 third to stock raising, wine, cider, beer, and resin making, silkworm culture, bee- 

 keeping, and other industries. 



