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Return of prices of certain classes of Irish agricultural products and live 

 stock (Dept. Agr. and Tech. Tnstr. Ireland, Affr. Statu. 1904, rr- 51, dgms. IS .— This 

 report gives the pricesof certain agricultural products and live Btock in I reland during 

 the year 1904, with comparative tables for preceding years Bince 1885. Statistics are 

 given for the following products: Wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, hay, rye, grase 

 llax. cattle, sheep, wool, iimtt.ui, hcci', pork, eggs, and butter. The figures Bho^ 

 great fluctuations in the prices from month to month as well as in the average prices 

 from year to year 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Agricultural instruction for adults in the British Empire, J. Hamilton 

 [U. - s '. Dept. Agr., Offia Expt. Stas. Bui. 155, pp. 95).— This is a report by thefarmers' 

 Institute specialist of this Office on the methods thai have been adopted by the vari- 

 ous governments included in the British Empire in the dissemination of agricultural 

 information among their rural populations. 



The author states that the conclusion reached years ago by Greal Britain's wisest 

 statesmen was that the only solution of the question of improving agriculture suffi- 

 ciently i" enable those who pursue it as a calling to maintain themselves in comfort 

 and at the same time to produce a surplus sufficient for the use of those engaged in 

 other occupations lies in their proper education. Accordingly the Government 

 established Bchools and colleges of agriculture a1 home many years ago, and ha- since 

 encouraged their erection in all of her dependencies, until dow agricultural instruc- 

 tion in some form or other is given in almost every country under British rule. 



The present bulletin describes the means adopted for reaching rural adults through 

 itinerant teachers, traveling schools, farmers' institutes, and other forms of college 

 and university extension. There is also some discussion of the higher institutions 

 which are associated in the work of instruction of adult farmers. 



Reading-course bulletins for farmers and farmers' wives {Albany: N. )'. 

 Dept. Agr., 1904, j>/>. 788, figs. 404). — This is a reprint of all the Cornell reading-course 

 bulletins for farmers and farmers' wives up to March. 1905. 



The following subjects are treated in the reading course for farmers: (1 I The ^oil — 

 what it is; (2) tilliage and underdrainage — reasons why: (3) fertility of the soil— 

 what it is; (4) how the plant gets its food from the soil; (5) how the plant '_ r et- it- 

 food from the air; (6) balanced rations for stoek; (7) the computing of balanced 

 rations; (8) sample rations for milch cows; (9) soiling crops, silage, and mots: 10) 

 pastures and meadows; (11) how a fruit tree grows; (12) planting the orchard; 

 (13) tilling and fertilizing the orchard; (14) pruning and spraying fruit tree-: I 15) 

 picking, storing, and marketing fruit; (16) building poultry houses; 17 feeding of 

 laying hens— the principles; I L8) rations for poultry; | L9) raising chickens; (20) mar- 

 keting poultry products; (21) the care of milk on the farm; (L'L'ithe composition of 

 milk and cream and their by-products; (23) construction of sanitary dairy stables; 

 (24) farm butter making; (25) the dairy herd. 



In the reading course for farmer-' wives the following subjects are treated: l I Bav- 

 lng steps; (2) decoration in the farm home; (3) practical housekeeping; 1> the 

 kitchen garden; (5) flowers and the (lower garden; (6) the rural Bchool and the 

 farm home; (7) boys and girls on the farm; (8) reading in the farm home; 9 farm 

 home industries; (10) insect pests of house and garden; I 11 | suggestions OH home 

 sanitation; I L2) germ life ill the farm home— a second talk on sanitation; 13) brief 

 discussion of human nutrition: | 14 i f 1 for the fanner's family: 1 15 Baving strength. 



Agricultural college extension, University of Illinois ([Circa.] Marc) 

 July, 1U0~>).— Among these circulars the following are designed for use in connection 

 with agricultural instruction or the encouragement of interest in farm operations: 



Soil fertility experiments, C. 0. Hopkins (pp. 8, figs, 6).— This contains explicit 

 instructions for the direction of young people's experimental clubs and public school 



