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.031,635.97 in 1904, and $632,298,322.57 in 1905. The conclusion reached regard- 

 ing the production of cotton in foreign countries is that only in the remote future is 

 there a prospect of any other country than the United States producing any large 

 amount of cotton for export. 



There has been a very large increase in the establishments making cotton-seed 

 products since 1900, the number in that year being 369, and 715 in 1905. The value 

 of the products increased from $19,335,947 in 1890 to $96,407,621 in 1905. These 

 products include linters, hulls, and oil. 



An introduction to the history of sugar as a commodity, Ellen D. Ellis 

 {Bryn Mawr Col. Monographs, 4 {1905), pp. 117). — This monograph presents a study 

 of the statics and dynamics of sugar and of the history of the substance as a com- 

 modity in various countries of the world. A list of over 100 references bearing on 

 the subject from a practical, historical, geographical, and technical standpoint is 

 given. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Higher agricultural education, E. A. Bryan {Pullman, Wash.: Author, 1905, 

 pp. 16). — An address delivered before the Educational Congress of the Lewis and 

 Clarke Exposition at Portland, Oreg., in which the aims of pure and applied science 

 are set forth, and the development of agricultural education in the United States is 

 outlined. Agricultural education is characterized as genuine, real education which 

 can not do without the old instruments of education, but which " has added new and 

 better instruments for the purpose of mind growth along certain directions, namely, 

 that of the life which the student is to lead." 



Educational agriculture, W. R. Hart {Peru, Nebr.: Author [1906~\, pp. 16). — 

 This is a discussion of the pedagogics of agriculture based on the premise that 

 "before agriculture becomes entitled to a permanent place in the common school 

 course it must withstand three tests: First, the test of usefulness; second, the test 

 of mental discipline; third, the test of humanizing culture." The conclusion of the 

 author is "that from whatever point of view the subject is approached, agriculture 

 gives an affirmative answer to every test that can be applied to any subject, not 

 excepting the richest, in any course of study." 



How can a college of agriculture keep close to the ground? L. H. Bailey 

 {Cornell Countryman, 3 {1906), No. 9, pp. 207, £08).— The writer discusses means of 

 bringing the people and the college closer together, and among other things suggests 

 the sending of college students to approved farms to learn advanced farm practice, 

 and the bringing of experienced larmers to the college to lecture and consult infor- 

 mally with students. 



Proceedings of the nineteenth annual convention of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations held at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, November 14-16, 1905, edited by A. C. Trie, W. H. Beal, and 

 H. C. White ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Bui. 164, pp. 189, dgms. 2).— An 

 account of this convention has been given (E. S. R., 17, p. 321). 



Proceedings of the tenth annual meeting of the American Association of 

 Farmers' Institute Workers, edited by W. H. Beal, J. Hamilton, and G. C. 

 Creelman {U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. Stas. Bui. 165, pp. 95).— This is a detailed 

 account of the proceedings of the meeting held at Washington, D. C, November 

 9-11, 1905. 



Animal husbandry— four-year course, R. S. Shaw {Rpt. Mich. Acad. ScL, 7 

 {1905) , pp. 242-144).— This is a syllabus of a course in animal husbandry for gradu- 

 ates of a good high school, followed by a discussion of some features of the syllabus. 

 Out of a total cf 382 hours in the course 129J hours are devoted to animal husbandry 

 subjects, 30 hours to other agricultural subjects, and 25£ hours to hygiene, anatomy, 



