492 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



Crop Reporter {U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Statis. Crop Reporter, 13 {1911), 

 No. 1, pp. 1-S, dgms. 2). — Statistics ou tlie coudition of crops in the United 

 States and foreign countries, the farm values and range of prices of agricultural 

 products, and monthly receipts of eggs and poultry in the leading markets of 

 the United States are presented and discussed. The annual report of the 

 Bureau of Statistics for the year 1909-10, continued from the December supple- 

 ment (E. S. R., 24, p. 292), contains data on the purchasing power of farm 

 products in 1899 and 1909 as measured in terms of general products purchased 

 by farmers, from which it appears that the purchasing power of one acre has 

 increased about 54 per cent during this period. 



AGEICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Report on the distribution of grants for agricultural education and re- 

 search [Bd. Agr. and Fisheries [London], Rpt. Agr. Ed. and Research, 190S-9, 

 1909-10, pp. XVII+132). — This report includes a general report on the work of 

 the department for 2 years, a list of grants awarded in these years, discussions 

 concerning the arrangements with the Board of Education, the development and 

 road improvement funds act (E. S. R., 24, p. 201), and state aid for research, 

 and appendixes dealing with these matters in detail. 



According to this report the grants awarded by the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries for agricultural instruction in England and Wales amounted in 

 1908-9 to $58,320, and in 1909-10 to $59,778. There were also special grants for 

 experimentation and research amounting in 1908-9 to $4,423, and in 1909-10 to 

 $2,916. Although grants for experimentation have been given for a number of 

 years, not until 1908-9 was there any grant to an institution for research work, 

 when $972 was allotted to the University of Cambridge for cereal breeding 

 investigations. 



The relations between the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Board 

 of Education with reference to the promotion of agricultural education in 

 England and Wales have been defined by a "memorandum of arrangements" 

 between these departments. According to the terms of this memorandum, the 

 purpose of which is to prevent overlapping or duplication of work in agricul- 

 tural education, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries will hereafter distribute 

 all grants to institutions giving instruction to students in advanced courses in 

 agriculture, and to institutions restricted to one special pha?e of the subject, 

 such as forestry, dairying, or cider making, the main purpose of which is to 

 prepare competent instructors in that phase of agricultural work, and the Board 

 of Education will distribute all grants in aid of other forms of agricultural 

 education. In the case of farm schools having farms and experiment stations 

 in connection with them, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries will render the 

 necessary government supervision and aid for the farms and stations and the 

 Board of Education that for the educational work of these schools. To aid in 

 correlating the work of the 2 boards an interdepartmental committee has been 

 provided for. as previously noted (E. S. R., 23, p. 298). 



Agricultural education, J. G. Schurman {N. Y. Dept. Agr. Bui. IJ/, PP- 

 137a-149a). — The author considers the passage by Congress of the land-grant 

 act of 1862 to be the fifth great epoch in the history of university education. 

 He traces the development of the land-grant colleges with reference to their 

 agricultural and engineering courses. 



Aids to agricultural advancement in tke Middle West, E, Davenport 

 {N. Y. Dept. Agr. Bid. V/, pp. 95a-116a). — The author recommends as a rational 

 system of agricultural education: (1) Courses of collegiate grade, in which 

 approximately one-half of the work is given to technical agriculture of the 



