CONTENTS. VII 



RURAL ECONOMICS. 



Page. 



The State and the farmer, Bailey 486 



Agricultural legislation, Rudloff 486 



Farm leading system in New York State 487 



The subdivision of farms in France, Grandeau 487 



The exchange and reassignment of land, Grandeau 487 



The fluctuations in value of agricultural land in France since 1851, Saulnier. . 487 



The fluctuations in value of agricultural land in France, ZoUa 487 



The firm labor problem 488 



The white immigrant as a plantation laborer, Behan 488 



Rural mutual association, Sarazin 488 



The agricultural cooperative congress at Piacenza, Ottavi 488 



Agricultural mutual credit banks in 1907 488 



Agricultural credit banks 488 



Agricultural credit societies 488 



The new development in agricultural cooperation, Plunkett 488 



Credit bank for the encouragement of irrigation works and agriculture 488 



Crop Reporter 489 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Report of Committee on Industrial Education in Rural Communities 489 



Farmers' Institute Report, Miller _. 489 



Instruction in practical agriculture at the University farm, Davis, California .... 489 



Manual of agriculture for the common schools of Illinois, Barto 489 



Plan for presentation of agriculture for use of teachers, Morgan and Main 489 



Quantitative analysis for students of agriculture, Lincoln and Walton, Jr 489 



Dry-land farming: Drought-resistant crops and soil culture. Ten Eyck 490 



Demonstration problems for Farmers' Institute members, and others 490 



The poultiy industry, Wilson and Lamb 490 



Nature-study, Holtz 490 



Our useful birds, Hine 490 



The story of corn, Breen 490 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Nineteenth Annual Report of Connecticut Storrs Station, 1907 491 



Twenty-first Annual Report of Maryland Station, 1908 491 



Twenty-first Annual Report of Nebraska Station, 1907 491 



Twenty-sixth Annual Report of Ohio Station, 1907 491 



Summarj^ of experiment station work 491 



How the experiment station can be of service to the farmers of Virginia 491 



Press bulletins 491 



Accessions to the Department Library, January-September, 1908 491 



