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tiire, and the following papers were read: "What onr bad roads cost us," by C, 

 Coleman; "How to produce the means to build good roads," by J. F. Jackson; 

 "Our highways, their construction and maintenance," by C. E. Ashburner; "The 

 use of convict labor on public roads," by J. Graham, jr.; "Country road bridges/' 

 by C. C. Wentworth; "Stone and shell roads," by D. C. Humphreys. 



STATISTICS. 



Report of the statistician (U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Statistics Hpi. 1S3, n. ser., 

 pp. 58). — The statistics given in this report relate to the number and value of farm 

 animals in the different States, the cotton crop of 1894, live stock in Great Britain 

 and Ireland, and the cotton crop of India for 1894. The report also contains notice 

 of a French Congress on popular credit, notes on the wheat crop of Victoria (Aus- 

 tralia), notes on foreign agriculture, and transportation rates. 



Report of the statLstician ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Staiisiics Rpt. 124, n. ser., 

 pp. 59-106). — This repoi't treats of the distribution and consumption of corn, the con- 

 sumption of wheat per capita in the United States, the wheat crop of the world, 

 prices of wheat since 1865, wholesale prices of principal agricultural products, 

 report of European agents, and transportation rates. 



Reports of director and of treasurer of Vermont Station ( Vermont Sta. Rpt. 

 189S, pp. 9-16). — This includes the review of the work of the year by the director, list 

 of bulletins published, and matter of general interest, together with the treasurer's 

 report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. In connection with a revision of the 

 station mailing list by return postal cards which took place during the year, it is 

 stated that "over 95 per cent of the cards were returned, and a large number of 

 names of persons who had died or removed to unknown addresses were stricken from 

 the list." 



Report of Wyoming Station for 1894 ( Wyoming Sta. Rpt. 1894, pp. i55).— This 

 includes a report by the director on the work of the year; treasurer's report for the 

 fiscal year endiug June 30, 1894; and brief reports by the agriculturist and horti- 

 culturist, physicist, meteorologist, botanist, chemist, and geologist; together with 

 reprints of the bulletins published during the year. 



Remarks on the work of the Poseu Experiment Station in 1894, M. Gerlach 

 (Laiidiv. Centbl. Posen, 2S (1895), No. S, pp. 44, 45). 



