398 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



rice, citrus fruits, coffee, cotton, bananas, rubber, tobacco, beef, mutton, and 

 poultry. 



Annual report on the working of cooperative credit societies in the Bom- 

 bay Presidency (including Sind), for the year July 1, 1908, to June 30, 

 1909, C. S. Campbell et al. (Ann, Rpt. Work. Coop. Credit Soc. Bombay Pres., 

 1908-9, pj). 51-\-3, map 1). — The agricultural cooperative societies numbered 

 120 with 7,046 members on June 30, 1909, as compared with 99 and 5,150, re- 

 spectively, for the preceding year. 



The inundations and the local mutual agricultural credit banks, J. Cur]& 

 (Rev. Hort. [Pan.s], « (1910), Xo. 6, pp. i-'/O-ii.^).— This article presents a 

 brief history of government aid to agricultural credit in France. It gives 

 directions for organizing local mutual credit banks, and emphasizes the impor- 

 tance of the latter in carrying out the terms of the law of 1910, which provided 

 for the extension of credit on long-time loans to victims of the inundations in 

 France, who desired to rebuild or repair their homes and continue the cultivation 

 of their small holdings. The terms under which loans could be secured and 

 the method of repayment prescribed are summarized. 



Concerning the profitableness of agriculture, A. Arxstadt (IUus. Landic, 

 Zt{/.. 30 (1910). \o. 3(>. pp. S'l'i. 3'iG). — This article discusses the question of 

 the profitableness of agriculture in Germany in relation to the high cost of liv- 

 ing. Statistics from 1875 to 1907 derived from reliable sources are presented 

 to show that the gross returns to farmers are no larger now than fomerly and 

 that, consequently, the high cost of living is not the i-esult of high prices secured 

 by farmers for their crops. 



Advance in farm products, R. Smoot (Cong. Rec, ^5 (1910), No. 138, pp. 

 777J-7/77). — Statistics vn the average prices of staple farm produce in 1896 

 and 1910, and on the purchasing power of such products as measured in terms 

 of other products, are presented and discussed with a view of showing the 

 imjiroved economic condition of American farmers at the present time. 



Crop Reporter (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Stafis. Crop Reporter, 12 (1910), No. 

 6, pp. Jfl~ii8, fig. 1). — Notes and statistics are given on the condition of crops 

 in the United States and foreign countries and on the farm values and range 

 of prices of agricultural products in the United States. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Ninth annual general report of the Department of Agriculture and Tech- 

 nical Instruction for Ireland (Dept. Agr. and Tech. Instr., Ireland, Ann. Gen. 

 Rpt., 9 I190S-9). p. T7-i-47.)). — A report on the department's administraiion, 

 funds, and work during 190S-9. including agricultural and technical instruction, 

 and following in general the lines reported in previous years (E. S. R.. 21, 

 p. 593). 



There was an increase in the number of itinerant instructors in agriculture, 

 horticulture, bee keeping, poultry keeping, butter making, rural domestic 

 economy, and other subjects, and an increased attendance at the winter agri- 

 cultural classes, the schools of rural domestic economy, and the summer 

 courses for teacliors lielil in July and August at various institutions. 



Agriculture for high schools, (i. F. Warren (Proc. Ann: Conf. Agr. ScL, 

 Amherst, Mass., 2 (1909), pp. 32-.'i3). — The author pi-esents an argument to 

 show the economic value of agricultural study, based on an investigation at Cor- 

 nell University of the increased earning power of trained as compared with 

 untrained farmers on farms of the same invested capital. He holds tbat the 

 place for the untrained worker is in the city. factory under supervision rather 

 than in undertaking the management of farms. The importance of trained 



