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ber beetle, bagworms, chinch hua, planting speeds of forest trees?, peach culture, and 

 varieties of fruit for Oklahoma. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of Wyoming Station, 1903 {Wyoming Sta. Rpt. 

 1903, pp. 6S). — This includes the organization list of the station, a report of the 

 director, a financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, and reports of 

 members of the station staff, parts of which are noted elsewhere. The report of the 

 director discusses, among other subjects, the origin and purpose of the station; coop- 

 erative work; station equipment and buildings, and lines of work that may profit- 

 ably be undertaken by the station, especially in stock feeding and breeding; and 

 includes abstracts of the regular bulletins issued during the year, and reprints of 

 press bulletins dealing with storage reservoirs, food adulteration and inspection, the 

 prevention of grain smut, and the Rhizoctonia disease of potatoes. 



Index to Wyoming Station bulletins, Grace R. Hebard ( Wyoming Sla. Index 

 Bui. C, pp. 33). — A list of the publications of the station since its organization, and a 

 subject index to Bulletins 38-53, issued from September, 1898, to June, 1902. 



Crop Reporter ( JJ. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Siati.stics Crop Reporter, vol. 5, Nos. 4, 

 pp. 25-32; .5, pp. 33-40; 6, pp. 41-48). — These numbers, for August, September, and 

 October, 1903, contain the usual statistical information on the condition of crops in 

 the United States and foreign countries. 



Sources of the agricultural imports of the United States, 1898-1902, F. H. 

 Hitchcock {U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Foreign Markets Bnl. 31, pp. 150).— The total 

 value of the agricultural imports during the fiscal year 1902 was 1413,744,557 and the 

 average value for the 5 years covered by this report was $379,124,315. Of the im- 

 ports for 1902 Brazil supplied 15.07, the United Kingdom 8.74, Cuba 7.09, Japan 6.32, 

 France 5.56, and Italy 5.19 per cent. The principal agricultural imports were coffee, 

 animal fibers, hides and skins, sugar, vegetable fibers, fruits and nuts, alcoholic liquors, 

 tobacco, tea, vegetable oils, and cocoa and chocolate. A similar statistical report for 

 the years 1S97-1901 was publislied as Bulletin 28 of the Section (E. S. R., 14, j). 508). 



Distribution of the agricultural exports of the United States, 1898-1902, 

 F. H. Hitchcock ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Foreign Markets Bui. 32, pp. 224). — 

 The total value of the agricultural exports of the United States during the fiscal year 

 1902 was $857,113,533 and the average value for the 5 years covered by this report 

 was $861,037,815. Of the agricultural exports during 1902 the United Kingdom re- 

 ceived 48.62, Germany 15.39, the Netherlands 5.56, and France 5.34 per cent. Cotton 

 constituted 34.02 per cent of the total agricultural exports, grain and grain products 

 24.9 per cent, and meat and meat products 22.85 per cent. A similar statistical re- 

 port for the years 1897-1901 was published as Bulletin 29 of the Section (E. S. R., 14, 

 p. 508). 



Belgium's foreign trade in agricultural products for 1902 ( V. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Division of Foreign Markets Circ. 26, pp. 8). 



Agricultural returns for Great Britain for 1902 {London: Bd. Agr., 1903, pp. 

 XL + 264, fig. 1, maps 2). — A report on the agricultural returns relating to acreage and 

 produce of crops and number of live stock in Great Britain, with summaries for the 

 United Kingdom, British possessions, and foreign countries, and particulars of prices, 

 imports, and exports of agricultural produce. 



Letters on agriculture in the West Indies, Spain, and the Orient, D. G. 

 Fairciiili) ( r. >S'. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Plant Industry Bui. 27, pp. 40, pis. 5).— This 

 contains the author's ol)servations on agricultural conditions in the British West 

 Indies, the Philippine Islands, Spain, China, the Persian Gulf region, and Japan. 

 Comments are made especially upon the preparation being made in the British West 

 Indies for the establishment of experiment stations and agricultural colleges, the 

 culture of yams in Jamaica, the opportunities for agricultural and botanical research 

 in the Philippine Islands, and breeds of milch cattle and carabaos for these islands. 

 The author speaks very highly of the Jamaica yam, especially the variety Yampie. 



