294 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol.40 



farm value, average prices received by producers of important products, and 

 range of prices of agricultural products at important markets, this number 

 contains a crop summary for November 1, 1918; special reports on materials 

 used in brewing; acreage of pasture land and its carrying capacity; exports 

 of domestic feeding stuffs from the United States; leaf tobacco held by manu- 

 facturers and dealers ; clover and alfalfa seed prices, 1916-18 : the corn pro- 

 duction, 1918, with comparisons; area and yield of sugar-beet seed, 1918; live- 

 stock changes in the United States; hog production and consumption; data 

 on how the corn crop is harvested: a special sectional apple report; a com- 

 parison of the commercial tomato pack of 1917 and 1918; and miscellaneous 

 data. 



Farmers' market bulletin, W. R, Camp i North Carolina Bta. Farm r«' Markt t 

 Bui., 5 [1918), No. i~>. pp. 7). This number contains the current partial list of 

 products Which farmers have for sale, with notes on marketing ami directions 

 to growers (or reporting their needs. 



Price Current-Grain Reporter Yearbook. 1918. K. <:. OSMAJJ [Price Current- 

 drain Bptr. Yearbook 1918, p\,. IQk). — This issue continues data previously 

 DOted (B. S. H.. :*.7, p. 595), giving statistics for the year ended May 1. 1918. 



[Agricultural statistics of Sweden] [StatU. Anbok Sverige, 1917, /*. 70- 

 86; 1918, i'i>. 78-90). — These reports continue data previously noted (B. S. EL, 

 85, p. 894) by adding Information for the years 1917 and L918. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Have the agricultural colleges fulfilled their obligation in the present war 

 emergency? w. I ». Hubd [Proc 8oc. Prom. Agr. s<i., 88 [1917), pp. 95-104).— 

 This paper, presented at the 1917 meeting of the society, briefly surveys some 

 of the things which the D. S. Department of Agriculture and the agricultural 



colleges with their cooperating organizations have done througb their scientific, 

 technical, and military instruction to meel the war emergency. 



The advisability of collegiate courses on marketing and distribution. T. X 

 Cabveb [Proc. ..'. Pan Amer. Set. Cong., 1915-16, vol. 3. pp. ... I. The 



author discusses the necessity of a Btudy of the problem <>f marketing and ways 

 in which this problem enters into the general scheme of theoretical economics. 



lie concludes that "colleges ami universities are the proper places for the 

 study of any problem which is, in the first place, of such profound Importance 

 to the welfare of the community as the problem of marketing, and. in the 

 second place, Of BUCh difficulty and, magnitude as to challenge the best efforts of 

 educated men." 



The institute of tropical agriculture of the Pacific Coast. II. J. Wkbbkb 

 [Proc 2. Van Amer. Sci. Cong., 1915-16, vol. 3, pp. 599-602).— An account is 

 given of the functions and equipment of t ho Graduate School of Tropical Agri- 

 culture and Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside, Cal., established as n 

 branch of the College of Agriculture of the University of California. 



The public school system of San Francisco, Cal. (17. 8. Hur. Ed. But. 46 

 (l'J17), pp. 649. figs. 79). — This report of a survey of the public school system 

 of San FranclSCO contains among others a chapter <>n home economics (pp. 442- 

 478), including a discussion of the conditions as they existed at the time of the 

 survey committee's visit, a statement of ideals in regard to this phase of edu- 

 cation, and a series of recommendations for immediate modifications and the 

 ultimate development of courses. Instructional corps, ami material equipment 



A chapter is also devoted to the educational and economic value of school- 

 directed gardening (pp. 570-020), including a discussion of the present statu* 



