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A report on public administration in relation to agriculture and allied 

 interests, J. W. Garner (Chicago: Efflc. and Econ. Com., 1914, pp. 51). — This 

 report calls attention to the fact that in Illinois the state boards and offices 

 for the administration of laws relating to agricultural interests have been 

 entirely independent of one another and not correlated in their activities. The 

 committee advises that the various boards and offices be brought together in 

 a single department with one administrative head. 



Negroes in the United States (Bur. of the Census [C7. S.] Bui. 129 {1915), 

 pp. 207, figs. 21). — ^There has been brought together in this one bulletin the 

 greater part of the statistical information of the census relating to the negroes. 

 Among the statistical tables are those that show for rural districts the number 

 of negroes and the school attendance by age periods, number of voting age, 

 marital condition and illiteracy and ownership of farm homes, number engaged 

 in agriculture by sex, number of farms, total and improved acreage, and tenure 

 and value of farm property. This information is given for the individual States 

 and for groups selected because of their relation to the negro problem. 



Live stock [in Costa Rica] (Internat. Inst. Agr. Rome, Bui. Agr. and Com. 

 Statis., 6 (1915), No. 2, p. 79). — The number of live stock in Costa Rica is 

 reported for 1914 as follows : Cattle, 336,061 ; horses, 52,095 ; pigs, 63,552 ; mules, 

 2,409; asses, 107; goats, 522; sheep, 122. 



Agricultural statistics of Sweden (Statis. Arshok Bverige, 1915, pp. 60-75). — 

 Statistical data are given for 1913, showing by departments the area of land 

 devoted to different agricultural purposes; the area, total production, average 

 yield and value of the principal crops; the number of live stock, and the pro- 

 duction of dairy products. For many items comparative data for the country 

 as a whole are shown. 



Agriculture in Algeria (Statis. Gen. Alg&rie, 1912, pp. 233-280). — These 

 pages of the annual report contain statistical data showing the area in crops, 

 number of agricultural implements, number of operators by tenure, and number 

 of live stock. 



[Agricultural statistics of Egypt] (Ann. Statis. Egypte, 6 (1914), PP- 319- 

 370). — These pages of the annual report give the number of farm operators, the 

 area in farms by size, the area cultivated and not cultivated, the area in the 

 principal crops, the number of live stock, and the trade in the principal agi'i- 

 cultural products. The data are for 1913 and by minor subdivisions, with com- 

 parative data for earlier years for the more important items. 



[Chinese agriculture] (China Year Book, 1914, PP- 4^-59). — These pages of 

 the annual report give, for the principal agricultural products grown, a brief 

 statement concerning the localization of the crops, the domestic and foreign 

 trade, and the uses to which they are put. 



[Agriculture in Japan] (Statis. Rpt. Dept. Agr. and Com. Japan, 30 [19131, 

 pp. 836, pis. 3). — These pages continue the statistical data previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 31, p. 491) by reporting information for 1913. 



[Agriculture of New Zealand] (New. Zeal. Off. Ycarl)ook 1914, pp. 506-620, 

 pis. 2). — These pages of the annual report relate to land tenure, settlement, land 

 transfer, occupation and ownership of land, area and yield of crops, and number 

 of live stock. 



Monthly crop report (U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rpt., 1 (1915), No. 2, pp. 

 8). — This number contains estimates as to the condition of a large number of 

 crops on June 1, 1915, and of cotton on May 25, 1915, by States, with compari- 

 sons for earlier years, and as to the farm value of many important products on 

 May 15 and of others on June 1, together with data as to the range of prices 

 of agricultural products at important markets, and miscellaneous data. It also 



