STATISTICS MISCELLANEOUS 199 



Observations and experiments to illustrate the principles of agriculture 

 in elementary schools, W. Fawcett ( West India a Bul.,1 {1900), No. S,2yp- 240-259). 



Elementary agricultural education, R. Harper {Agr. Gaz. New South Wales, 

 11 {1900), No. 4, pp. 293-300, fg.s. 2). — An account is given of the author's experience 

 in teaching agriculture and horticulture in a public school. 



Norway; the agriculture of Norway in relation to the general develop- 

 ment of the country, X. A. Kryukov {Norngh/a, selskoe kJiozyalstro v Norregii, v 

 svyazi s obshcMm razvitiem stranui. St. Petershnrg: Bttssian Ministry of Agriculture and 

 Crown Lands, 1899, pp. 246). 



Agriculture in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Die Jjandwirthschaft in Bosnien und 

 der Herzegovina. Sarajero: 1899, pp. 12^897, maps 21, pis. 20, dgms. 14)- — The topo- 

 graphical features of these provinces, their resources, population, crop production, 

 animal production, etc., are discussed. The system of agricultural education adopted 

 and the experiment stations and model farm are describeil at considerable length. 



Australian agriculture {Mitt. Deut. Landir. Gesell., 15 {1900), Sup. to No. 3, pp. 

 22,33). 



Colonial experiment stations, J. Dybowski {Les jardins d'essai coloniaux. Paris: 

 Hachette d: Co., pp. 40, Jigs. 13). — Outline of the work of the French tropical colonial 

 agricultural exjieriment stations, with illustrations and descriptions of some of the 

 more agriculturally important plants of these regions. 



Australian experimental farms {Nature, 61 {1900), No. 1587, p. 528). — A list of 

 the experimental farms in New South "Wales and their principal lines of work. 



Explanation of some scientific terms met w^ith in agricultural literature, 

 E. H. GuRNEY {Agr. Gaz. New South Wales, 10 {1899), Nos. l,pp. 54-63; 2, pp. 171- 

 185; 5, pp. 427-439) . 



Manual of a bibliographical repertory of the sciences related to agricul- 

 ture arranged according to a decimal classification, V. Vekmorel {Manuel da 

 repertoire hihliographique des sciences agricoles etabli d'a2)res la cl '.'isification decinmle. 

 MontpelUer: Coulet & Sons; Paris: Ch. Beranger; Paris, Bruxelles, and Zurich: Institut 

 Intcrnationid. de Bd,Hographie, 1900, pp. 239, jigs. 2). 



The modern farmer in his business relations, E. F. Adams {San Irancisco: N. 

 ,T. Stone tt* Co., 1899, j^p. 662). — This is " a study of some of the principles underlying 

 the art of profitable farming and marketing and of the interests of farmers as affected 

 by modern social and economic conditions and forces. ' ' Tlae different sections treat 

 of the education of the farmer; the farmer as a business man and as a cooperator; 

 the relations of the farmer to questions of tariff, export bounty, single-tax system, 

 currency, labor questions, referendum, and socialism; and the character, object, and 

 organization of the cooperative fruit-marketing societies of California. 



The appendix contains considerable information in small compass concerning the 

 Morrill and Hatch acts, agricultural courses and agricultural extension, books of 

 interest to farmers, statistics relating to banks and to currency. Interstate Commerce 

 Commission rulings, cooperation among farmers and others, etc. 



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