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(2) Af>-i-i('iiltni;il specialties, such as the raising of fruit, tobacco, 

 hops. flax, silk-worms, bees, or fishes, aiul the iiiakinf>- of wine. 



(;')) Ao-i-iculti'.ral en gi nee ring, including irrigation, drainage, swamp 

 cultuiv. utilization of otl'al. etc. 



(4) Agricuhural iiubistries, such as the making of sugar, stai-cii, 

 and yeast, bi-ewing and distdling, milling, dairying, etc. 



(5) Agi-icultui'al science and education, inchiding schools of dif- 

 ferent grades and experiment stations. 



((■)) Forestry, including general forestry, the lumln-r trade, forest 

 engineering, instruction in forestry, etc. 



(7) Rural economy, inchiding legislation, statistics of agriculture, 

 cooperative associations, insurance and loans, protection for birds, 

 etc. 



This Office has received seven bulletins of the Imi)erial College of 

 Agriculture and Dendrology, Tokio, Japan, published in English, 

 from December, 1887, to March, 1890, inclusive. The first is by Prof. 

 C. C. Georgeson. M. S. : the five succeeding by Dr. C). Kellner, and the 

 last by Y. Kozai. The titles of the bulletins are as follows: No. 1, 

 Fertilizer Experiments with Rice; No. 2, The Composition and 

 Digestibility of ,fapanese Feeding Stuffs; No. 3, The Composition, 

 Treatment, and Ai)j)lication of Night-soil as a Manure, and the Vahi- 

 ation of Japanese Fertilizers; No. 4. The Composition of Several 

 Japanese Fertilizers; No. 5, The Distribution of Vegetable and Ani- 

 mal Nutrients in the Products Obtained from Rice by AYhitening, 

 and the Manufacture, Composition, and Properties of " Koji " 

 (steamed rice or barley upon which is developed the mycelium of a 

 special fungus) ; No. (>, The Manufacture and Composition of 

 '' Miso " (a food prejiared from a mixture of soy beans, rice or barley, 

 common salt, and water, by slow fermentation, and much used, espe- 

 cially by the lower classes, in connection with vegetables), and Ex- 

 periments with Several Nitrogenous Fertilizers on Crops (barley and 

 rice, in ziiu- cylinders bui'ied in a field) ; No. 7, The Manufacture of 

 Various Kinds of Tea and the Niti'ogenous Non-albuminous Con- 

 stituents of l^amboo Shoots. 



An agricultural and industrial exposition is now in progress at 

 Tokio, and will be couliinied until Julv 'M. 



On page 2()7, in the abstract of l)ulletin No. l7 of the Ncav York 

 Station on cattle foods and feeding rations, estimates are given of 

 the quantities of different feeding stuffs and the di<rcstil)le nutrients 

 in rations fed to cows by leading New York dairymen. To these are 

 added estimates of the fuel A^alues of the rations in heat units. The 

 different rations varied in fuel value from about 18,000 to 43,000 



