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Important agricultural products are given. A statistical report showing the 

 tendency toward increased divei'sification of crops in the South, a summary of 

 the production of 21 important crops in the leading five States, 1917-1919, and 

 of the farm labor supply and demand, April 1, 191S-1920, are included. 



The Market Reporter (U. S. Dept. Agr., Market Rptr., 1 (1920), Nos. 14, pp. 

 209-221 pj. 1; 15, pp. 225-2^0, fig. 1; 16, pp. 241-256, fig. 1; 11. pp. 257-272, fig. 

 1). — In these numbers are continued the weekly and monthly summaries of 

 movement, marketing, and prices of specified commodities, and tabulatetl data 

 with interpretative text in regard to imporant classes of agricultural products. 



Special articles on the potato market position and apple exports and imports, 

 and a tabulated report of the annual production of manufactured dairy prod- 

 ucts and oleomargarine (see p. 179) are published in No. 14. In No. 15 are 

 articles on the dominant position of American cotton shown by a review of the 

 world situation, increased butter production in 1919, and Montana cattle move- 

 ment in 1919; in No. IG on milk prices in 1919 (see p. 178), grades for 

 tomatoes (see p. 144), handling spinach (see p. 144), a monthly cold-storage 

 report, and report of receipts and disposition of live stock at public stock yards 

 for March ; and in No. 17 on .sugar beet seed supply, marketing Bermuda onions, 

 and the dominant position of American cotton (continued from No. 15). 



The economic role of our colonies during and after the war, R. Chudeau 

 {Assoc. Franc. Avanc. SgL, Confs., 1918, pp. 18-53, figs. 4)- — ^This deals princi- 

 pally with French Indo-China, Madagascar, and the French island colonies, 

 giving the general geographic characteristics of each and describing their 

 important vegetable and animal products. Certain characteristics of natives of 

 these colonies as laborers are described. The improvements accomplished and 

 needed, and the financial resources are noted. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Annual report of the extension service for the year ending November 



30, 1918 {Mass. Agr. Col. Ext. Rpt. 1918, pp. 63, figs. 3).— This is a report on 

 the history, organization, and work during the year, of the extension service of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



During the year there was a total enrollment of 103,603 boys and girls in the 

 junior extension work. A plan was adopted whereby a high-school agi'icul- 

 tural student who is enrolled in junior extension work may obtain, on entering 

 the college, one point of credit for each year of such work performed during 

 the high-school course, or a total of four credits. To meet the need of a regu- 

 lar publication of the extension service, the Extension News was issued as a 

 bimonthly publication, the first number appearing in June, 1918. 



State-aided vocational education in Massachusetts {Ann. Rpt. Bd. Ed. 

 [Mass.], 82 {1917-18), pp. 106-134, 218-263; also in- Bui. Bd. Ed. Mass., No. 5 

 {1919), pp. 79). — This is a report on the work in vocational education in Massa- 

 chusetts in 1917-18, the special feature being the work done by the schools 

 because of war needs. The 107 vocational scliools in operation during the year 

 included 9 homemaking day schools with a total enrollment of 450 students, 

 6 agricultural schools, 12 vocational agricultural departments in high schools, 

 and 19 vocational agricultural departments for war emergency work only. 

 The total expenditure of the agricultural schools was $179,970, and of the 

 agricultural departments .$37,468. The total earnings of vocational agricultural 

 students from the form and other work during the periods covered by their 

 school attendance and their farm projects increased from $11,100 in 1912 by 

 a total of 70 pupils to $124,669 by a total of 322 pupils. 



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