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the insured, fees and assessments, etc. He also includes model articles of in- 

 corporation, and suggestions for organization and business forms. 



[Cooperation in Switzerland] {Pubs. Sec. Paysans Suisses, No. 55 {1916), 

 pp. 95). — This is the nineteenth annual report of the Swiss Agricultural Society 

 (E. S. R., 33, p. 894). 



Monthly crop report {U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rpt., 3 {1917), No. 5, pp. 

 Sl-Jflf). — This report contains the usual statistical data relating to the sum- 

 mary of farm prices, crop conditions on May 1 for winter wheat, rye, and hay, 

 and the condition of spring pasture, spring plowing, and spring planting, the 

 estimated farm value of important products, and the range of prices of agri- 

 cultural products at important markets. It also contains special articles regard- 

 ing the eSiciency of agricultural workers in the United States and European 

 countries, yearly summaries of world production of important crops, materials 

 used to make alcoholic liquors in the United States, export of food products, 

 index numbers of prices of meat animals, and index number of the combined 

 price of 10 important crops. There is also a special report on commercial 

 acreage and production of strawberries, the honeybee, crop conditions in Cali- 

 fornia and Florida, production of maple sugar and sirup, beet-sugar production, 

 and the 1916 Louisiana sugar crop, as well as miscellaneous data. 



[Trade and commerce in agricultural products in Chicago. 1916] (.-inn. 

 Rpt. Dd. Trade Chicago, 59 {1916), pp. A'.VA'l'-f-ifl^-f /.}/).— This report con- 

 tinues data previously noted (E. S. R.. 35, p. 497), adding data for the following 

 year. 



The agricultural output of Great Britain {London: lid. Agr. and Fisheries, 

 1912, pp. 62). — This is the report made by the Board of Agriculture and Fish- 

 eries in connection with the Census of Production Act of 1906, relating to the 

 total output of agricultural land, the number of persons engage<l, and the motive 

 power employed. The discussion In this report is amplilied by a large number 

 of .statistical tables, giving data in detail regarding the items mentioned. 



Returns of produce of crops in England and Wales, A. W. An.stritheb 

 {Bd. Agr. and Fisheries [London], Agr. Statis., 51 {1916), No. 2, pp. 37-59). — 

 This publication continues data previously noted (E. S. R., 35. p. S93). 



Acreage and live stock returns of Scotland, J. M. Ramsay {Agr. .V/otw. 

 Scotland, 4 {1915), pt. 1, pp. 55). — This report continues data previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 35. p. 497). 



[Agricultural statistics of Denmark] {Statis. Aarbog. Danmark, 21 {1916), 

 pp. -'i0-62). — This yearbook contains information along the lines previously 

 noted (E. S. R., 34, p. 792), adding data for the crop year 1916. 



AGRICTJLTTJEAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education, A. C. Monahan and C. H. La.ne {Rpt. Comr. Ed. 

 iV. »S.]. 1915-16, I, pp. 237-258). — This is a review of progress In agricultural 

 Instruction In secondary schools; a discussion of the question of the adminis- 

 tration of boys' and girls' agricultural club work In the various States, 1. e., 

 whether as a function of the State department of education or of the State 

 agricultural college, and if in the college, whether in the department of agri- 

 cultural extension teaching or in the department of agricultural education; A 

 State System of Agricultural Education, by K. L. Butterfield, previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 36, p. 93) ; agricultural education at meetings of the year; educa- 

 tional work of the U. S. Department of Agriculture through its States relations 

 Service and the Forest Service; and the principal developments of agricultural 

 education In foreign countries. 



