690 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol 40 



Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture for the quarter ending 

 December, 1917 (Quart. Rpt Kans. Bd. Agr., 36 (1917), No. 1U- PP- 50).— This 

 number is devoted to " tables giving the State's population by counties and 

 cities; acres, yields, and values of agricultural products, and numbers and 

 value of live stock, for the year 1917, together with other tables showing yields 

 and values of numerous productions for 20 years." 



[Reports of the Porto Rico commissioner of agriculture and labor and of 

 the food commission] {War Dept. [U. S.J, Ann. Rpt. Governor P. H., 18 {1918), 

 pp. 621-Vf'J). — In this section of the governor's report are published mites on 

 the work of the forest service and of the insular experiment station during the 

 year ended June 30, 1918, various labor data, and a survey of the work of 

 increasing the food production, marketing, and price control in Porto Rico, 



including statistics of the acreage of £ l crops, live stock. Imports from the 



United States and foreign countries, and exports of foodstuffs from the island, 

 together with the text of resolutions regulating the sale of food adopted by the 

 food commission. ■ 



Farm land and farming [in New Brunswick] (In The Province of New 

 Brunswick: Its Natural Resources Developed and Undeveloped, 1918. Ottawa: 

 Dept. Int.. 1918, pp. 7-18, fig. 1). — A compilation of general Information, re- 

 vised by the Dominion Experimental Farms Branch of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, regarding field crops, dairy fanning, cheese factories, live stock, and 

 fruit farming. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Administrative organization of the college of agriculture, C. D. Jakvis 

 (U. S. Bur. Ed., Higher Ed. Circ. 8 {1918), pp. u>. fig. t).— This paper presents 

 the results of a study of the administrative organization of the American col- 

 leges of agriculture, which was undertaken in response to a request from the 

 committee on college organization and policy of the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. It includes a set of recom- 

 mendations on different subjects, together with brief explanatory statements, 

 suggesting a normal rather than an arbitrary standard. 



Agricultural instruction, F. Dalencoum {UEnseignement Agricole. Port 

 auPrince, Haiti: Author, nils. /,),. 86). — The author suggests ;l program for the 

 development of agriculture in Haiti. He urges that theoretical and practical 

 agricultural instruction be made obligatory in the elementary and secondary 

 schools and that a professor of elementary agriculture be placed in each rural 

 and urban school. In his opinion the elementary schools should be so reorgan- 

 ized as to adapt their instruction to local conditions, and each school should 

 have a garden. The schools for girls should include also instruction in home 

 economics. It is proposed that the Farm of Thor be attached to the secondary 

 School of Applied Science, in which purely theoretical instruction in agriculture 

 is given. The Plantations of Haiti at Bayeux could render in the north the 

 same service is the Farm of Thor in the east, viz. as a demonstration of 

 experiments interesting to Haitian agriculture and commerce and as a center of 

 truly practical agricultural instruction. Agricultural instruction in the army 

 by means of evening schools is also recommended. Attention is called to the 

 agricultural possibilities of Haiti, in the realization of which the departments 

 of public instruction and agriculture should cooperate. The role of the clergy 

 and the use of moving pictures in the promotion of agriculture are discussed. 

 It is suggested that a central bureau for popular agricultural education be 

 established in the department of agriculture 



Agricultural education: Some problems in State supervision {Fed. lid. 

 Vocat. I'd. nil!. 26 i 1918), pp. 81).- This bulletin consists of three parts, 



