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1919, tlie injection of tlie Government into the market as a trader on a com- 

 mercial basis, and tlie positive direction of export business by a Government 

 agency down to the permitted resumption July 15 of trading in futures, which 

 marked the end of the undertaking. 



A short discussion of the United States Warehouse Act, what it provides, 

 and its purposes ( U. 8. Dept. Agr., Bur. Markets Sen-, and Regulatory An- 

 nouncement 61 (1920), pp. 38). — A short discussion is given of the United States 

 Warehouse Act and its amendments (E. S. R., 41, p. 891). Recent revision 

 of the regulations for cotton warehouses (E. S. R., 42, p. 34) and amendments 

 to the above-noted circular, also a list of cotton warehousemen licensed under 

 the United States Warehouse Act prior to April 1, 1920, notes and extracts 

 from correspondents showing the efforts of the Bureau of Markets to secure 

 equitable credits by reduced insurance rates on contents stored in licensed ware- 

 houses, and to have receipts under the United States Warehouse Act approved 

 as collateral by the Federal Farm Loan Board and other similar special agree- 

 ments, lists of licensees, and suggested blank forms, are given. 



International annual of agricultural statistics, 1915-16 and 1917-18 

 {Inst. Internatl. Agr. [Ro7ne], Ann. Internatl. Statis. Agr., 1915-16, pp. L-{-9Jf9 ; 

 1917-18, pp. ZL/ A' +^77). —These volumes continue information previously 

 noted (E. S. R., 34, p. 490). 



Monthly Crop Reporter [U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rptr., 6 {1920), No. 9, 

 pp. 93-lOS, figs. 2). — The usual monthly summaries of acreage and condition, and 

 brief articles, forecasts, and tabulated data as to stocks, farm value, and 

 market prices of impoi'tant agricultural products, including live stock, are 

 given. A summary of foreign crop prospects on August 31, 1920, estimates of 

 the percentage of various crops which is harvested in the several months and 

 of the per capita flour consumption by States,- and other data are included. 



Prices and supplies of grain, live stock, and other agricultural produce 

 in Scotland, J. M. Ramsay {Agr. Statis. Scot., 6 {1917), pt. 3, pp. 79-109).— 

 Tables with interpretative notes, previously noted (E. S. R., 41, p. 795), are 

 continued for the later year. 



[Agricultural statistics of Italy] {Ann. Statis. Ital, 2. ser., 7 {1917-18), pp. 

 157-182, pi. 1). — Agricultural statistics for the later year are continued as pre- 

 viously noted (E. S. R., 40, p. 194). 



[Agricultural statistics of British India] {Statis. Abg. Brit. India, 52 {1908- 

 1917), pp. 128-136; 53 {1909-1918), pp. 128-136).— These pages continue current 

 summaries of agricultural statistics, as noted for an earlier year (E. S. R., 

 38, p. 695). 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural education and its needs, G. A. Smith {Scot. Jour. Agr., 3 

 {1920), No. 2, pp. 155-160). — ^The author briefly reviews the development of agri- 

 cultural education at the University of Aberdeen and the Aberdeen and North 

 of Scotland College of Agriculture under a system of close cooperation which 

 has done excellent and effective work. Attention is called to the advantages of 

 this alliance to the college. A board of 46 governors has charge of the organiza- 

 tion of the college and administers its finances subject to the Board of Agri- 

 culture. It also manages the experimental farm at Craibstone and a demon- 

 stration croft at Alness, and has oversight of all the extension work throughout 

 the counties of the college area. The university provides the courses in pure 

 science for the first part of the degree, appoints the external examiners, and 

 determines and conducts the degree examinations, etc. A candidate for a de- 

 gree must satisfy the examiners that he possesses a practical knowledge of agri- 



