Vm CONTENTS. 



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Motor plows and cultivating machinery, Luedecke 185 



Competitive tests of cultivators and weed cutters, von Stockhausen 186 



Trials with cultivators, Christensen and Dall 186 



The grain drill, Gilmore and Milne 186 



Practical country buildings, Radford 186 



Planning the farm house, Chase 186 



Conventional designs for agricultural engineers 186 



RURAL ECONOMICS. 



Interest paid by farmers on loans 186 



Loans and credits granted on agricultural products in Russia 188 



The noncooperative rural credit system of Japan, Shimooka 188 



Rural cooperation, Lahitte 188 



Waste in distribution, Van Hise 188 



The economy of small holdings, Campbell and Turner 188 



Agricultural laborers 189 



Insurance against damage to crops by hailstorms 189 



The potentialities of southern agriculture. Merry 189 



Agriculture : Porto Rico 189 



Agriculture as practiced in Germany, Owen 190 



Pastoral life on the French Alps, Arbos 190 



Crop Reporter 190 



Prices of commodities in 1912, Sauerbeck 190 



The church of the open country, Wilson 190 



The country church and rural welfare 190 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Influence of educational institutions on agricultural science, Thatcher 191 



Motive of the college of agriculture of the University of California, Hunt 191 



First congress of agricultural education of Sao Paulo 191 



Distribution of grants for agricultural education and research, 1911-12 191 



Dairy instruction in foreign countries, EUbrecht 191 



Two kinds of agricultural education 191 



New York high school course in farm mechanics and drawing, Howe 192 



Course of study and manual of methods for Michigan district schools, Wright. . . 192 



Elementary principles of agriculture, Ferguson and Lewis 193 



Crops and methods for soil improvement, Agee 193 



Agronomy. — A course in practical gardening for high schools, Clute 193 



Chemistry applied to practical farming and home mixing fertilizers, Smith 193 



Manual of horticulture for grade and high schools, Busch and Gustin 193 



The poultryman's handbook, McGrew and Shoemaker 193 



Bird study in the schools, Libby 193 



Suggestions for corn growing and conducting a contest, Schmitz and Hanger. . . 193 



Organization and instruction in boys' corn-club work, Benson 193 



Tomato growing as club work in the North and West, Corbett 193 



Potato growing as club work in the North and West, Stuart 194 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-fifth Annual Report of Illinois Station, 1912 194 



Annual Report of Nevada Station, 1911 194 



Annual Report of Nevada Station, 1912 194 



Twenty-fifth Annual Report of Vermont Station, 1912 194 



Finances, meteorology, index 194 



Experiment Station Work, LXXIV 194 



