MISCELLANEOUS. 893 



stations, agricultm-al associations including agricultural banks and cooperative 

 associations, and the supervision of fertilizers. 



Encyclopedia of agriculture, edited by C. E. Green and 1). Young (Edin- 

 hiiryh and London. VMS, vol. S, /*/). yiII + (J33, pis. 17, fiffs. 157, map 1). — This 

 ip the final volume of the general enc.vcl<)])edia of agriculture and contains 

 articles on lopics nn-anged alpliabetically from Kainit to Zelkova. 



The British, yearbook of agriculture and agricultural who's who, 1908—9 

 {London, 1908, pp. r/+.7<S2). — A handbook of information relative to British 

 agriculture, the data being grouped under 10 heads, as follows: Societies and 

 institutions of a national and general nature; county and local societies and 

 institutions; agricultural, horticultural, and veterinary education and re- 

 search; diseases of animals, including the regulations of the Board of Agri- 

 culture and Fisheries relating thereto; British foreign and colonial regulations 

 relative to the importation and exportation of animals; lists of British agri- 

 cultural publications, including official documents, books issued during 1907, 

 publications of societies, agricultural colleges, county councils and similar 

 bodies, and periodicals, as well as of official publications of the British colonies, 

 India, and this country; markets, sales, and pi'ices of agricultural products; 

 statistical, legal, and general information, including data on small holdings, 

 a list of shows in 1908; and an agricultural "who's who," which gives data 

 regarding about 2,000 teachers, writers, and other persons prominently con- 

 nected with agriculture in Groat Britain. 



American Agriculturist handbook for 1909 {New York, Chicago, and Spring- 

 field, Mass., 1909, pp. 192, figs. 90). — This is stated to be "a ready reference 

 book for farm, home, and office." It contains statistical data with reference 

 to crop yields and animal production for 1908; accounts of the work of the 

 Forest Service and the Weather Bureau of this Department, and of the con- 

 servation movement; a glossary of terms used in agricultural science; brief 

 discussions of various agricultural operations, including a spraying calendar, 

 planting tables and feeding stuffs tables; and a directory of officers' in charge 

 of National and State agricultural work and of a large number of agricultural 

 organizations, together with a variety of miscellaneous data. 



The commercial products of India, G. Watt {Ijondon, 1908, pp. TIII-{- 

 1189). — This is an abridgment of The Dictionary of the Economic Products 

 of India, and constitutes an encyclopedia of Indian animal, vegetable, and min- 

 eral ])roducts of present or prosjiective commercial and industrial importance. 



Press bulletins {Ohio aSV«. Btil. 196, pp. 282-285). — Reprints of press bulletins 

 on the following subjects: Yellow leaf in oats; late blight and rot fungus of 

 Iiotatoes now iirevalent; the failure of the clover crop; seed corn for the season 

 of 1908; how to fight the i-ose chafer; and the gi'ape berry worm. 



Experiment Station Work, XLIX {U. K. IJcpt. Agr., I'arnicrs' Bui. 3.}2, 

 pp. 32, figs. .'?). — This number contains articles on the following subjects: 

 CJonservation of soil resources, potato breeding, disk-harrowing alfalfa, the 

 Montreal uniskmelon, storage of Hubbard squash, fig culture in the South, 

 mushroonj growing, preserving wild uuishrooms, cooking beans and other 

 vegetables, and a model kitchen. 



