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to trace whether some of the increase shown in the returns may or may not be 

 due simply to the withdrawal of less productive soils from the crop." 



The results obtained are summarized as follows: 



"(1) The reduction of the wheat ai'ea has been accompanied by a rise of the 

 yield per acre in England as a whole. 



"(2) The yields of separate counties have shown a slight tendency to 

 level up. 



"(3) Counties of low yields do not appear to have been specially selected 

 for a reduction of area. 



"(4) Improvements of the yields appear, to some extent, to be greatest in 

 those counties where the proportionate reductions of area have been greatest." 



The paper is followed by a discussion. 



Prices of agricultural produce {Jour. Bd. Agi: [London], 16 (1910). No. 12, 

 pp. lO-'fl-lOol). — Statistics on the average prices of live stock, meat, provisions, 

 potatoes, aud hay in England and Scotland during February, 1910, and of 

 wheat, barley, and oats during 1908, 1909, and to March, 1910. are reported. 

 The cereal prices are compared with those in France. Belgium, aud Germany. 



Investig'ations on the profitableness of agriculture in Switzerland during 

 1908, E. Lauk (Landw. Jahrb. Schweiz, 24 (1910). .Yo. 2. pp. 25-153). ^In 

 addition to the usual data (E. S. R., 21, p. 189) on yields, value, exports, prices, 

 etc., of farm produce raised in 1908, there is an account of the profitableness of 

 agi'iculture as determined by the detailed returns from 287 farms. 



The exportation of agricultural products from Denmark in 1909, Beau- 

 CAiBE (5«/. Hens. Off. Renseig. Agr. [Paris], 9 (1910). Xo. 2, pp. riS-llo).— 

 Statistics on the quantity, prices, and destination of butter, cream, milk, lard, 

 eggs, live beef cattle, meat, and horses exported from Denmark in 1909 in com- 

 parison with similar data for the two preceding years are presented and dis- 

 cussed. While the exportations of certain products diminished in quantity, the 

 price as a rule was higher, so that the Danish farmers reaped as favorable 

 returns as in 1908. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Institutions in the United States giving instniction in agriculture, M.\rie 

 T. Spethmann {U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Circ. 91, pp. i J). —These 

 classified lists include 57 collegiate institutions for white students receiving aid 

 from the Federal Government, 24 privately endowed colleges giving secondary 

 instruction in agriculture. 58 special agricultural high schools and 28 public 

 high schools receiving state aid. 2 privately endowed agricultural high schools. 

 !")<> normal schools and industrial schools for women. 432 public and private 

 high schools and academies teaching agriculture without state or federal aid, 

 18 institutions offering correspondence or reading courses in agriculture, 34 

 si)ecial elementary schools teaching agriculture, and the 46 secondary and 20 

 elementary schools teaching agriculture for negroes aud Indians, a total of 875 

 institutions, and an increase of 330 since the issuance of a previous list in 

 October, 1908. 



University Farm School, Davis. California [California ^ta. Circ. 51, pp. 22. 

 figs. II). — This circular gives a description of the farm and buildings, general 

 information concerning the daily work of the institution, and announcements 

 for 1910-n. 



Suggestions on rural education. T. S. Dymond (London: Bd. Ed.. 190S, pp. 

 17-rJ}). — The object of this pamphlet is to assist in some degree in adapting 

 rural education to the conditions of rural life. 



