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Statements are given showing the yearly marketings of live stock, imports 

 and exports of butter and eggs, stock of potatoes on hand, disposition of the 

 cabbage crop, and the wool production for 1915. Monthly prices are for a 

 series of years for the different types of live stock. The estimated farm value 

 of important products on December 15 and January 1, and the range of prices 

 of agricultural products at Important markets are also given, together with 

 miscellaneous data. 



Of the total receipts of cattle at Chicago on different days of the week, about 

 43 per cent is shown to have been received on Mondays, 9 per cent on Tues- 

 days, 34 per cent on Wednesdays, 10 per cent on Thursdays, 3 per cent on 

 Fridays, and 1 per cent on Saturdays. Mondays' quotations averaged $8.50, 

 Tuesdays' $8.20, Wednesdays' .$8.51, Thursdays' $8.20, and Fridays' $7.87, 

 with no market on Saturday. 



Cotton facts, edited by C. Gellek (New York: Shepperson P^ihlisliing Co., 

 1915, 40. €d-, pp. 220, pi. 1, figs. 4). — This book contains a compilation of the 

 crops, receipts, exports, stocks, home and foreign consumption, visible supply, 

 prices, and acreage of cotton in the United States and other countries for a 

 series of years. 



Annual agricultural statistics of France, 1913 (Statis. Agr. Ann. [Paris'\, 

 1913, pp. XII -{-286). — In addition to giving statistical data, showing by depart- 

 ments for France for 1913 the acreage, yield, and average prices of the principal 

 farm crops and the number of live stock, there is shown for France as a whole 

 the acreage and production for 1904 to 1913. Additional data are given relative 

 to the manufacturing industries using agricultural products, foreign trade in 

 agricultural products for 1911 to 1913, and the area, production, and trade in 

 agricultural products in a number of other important countries. 



Live stock statistics [in France] (IntcDiat. Inst. Agr. [Ro7ne] Bui. Agr. and 

 Com. Statis., 6 (1915), No. 12. p. 680). — This page contains statistical data show- 

 ing the number of live stock by kinds on December 31, 1914, and July 1, 1915. 



Agricultural warehouses in Bavaria (Landio. Jahrb. Bayern, 3 {1913), No. 

 7, pp. 269-315). — These pages contain a report for 1911 of the 169 agricultural 

 warehouses in Bavaria, showing the amount of grain handled, cost of buildings 

 and equipment, business transacted, and profit and loss. 



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Report on agricultural instruction act, 1913-14 (Canada Dept. Agr. Sess. 

 Paper 93 (1915), pp. 145, pis. 16). — This is a detailed report of the work car- 

 ried out by the Provinces of Canada with the federal appropriations provided 

 under the Agricultural Instruction Act, including a synopsis of the act. An 

 appendix includes brief articles on agricultural education in Manitoba, a turnip 

 growing competition, agricultural instruction in Belgium, an educational com- 

 petition for country girls, etc. 



Sixth annual report of the eleven district agricultural schools of Georgia, 

 J. S. Stewart (Bui. Ga. State Col. Agr., No. 91 (1915), pp. 29).— This bulletin 

 contains an account of the fourth annual meeting of the principals of the dis- 

 trict agricultural and mechanical schools of Georgia, held June 5, 1915, organi- 

 zation lists of the schools, an outline of the revised course of study recom- 

 mended by the Georgia State College of Agriculture and adopted by the prin- 

 cipals for 191.5-16, a description of subject matter, a suggested daily schedule, 

 the text of the act creating the schools, and statistical data on the value of their 

 farm products, repairs, salaries, value of their plants, indebtedness, enrollment, 

 cultivation of their farms, and farm equipment. 



