498 EXPEEIMENT STATION RECORD. 



A classification of the literature of agriculture enlarged from the decimal 

 classification of Melvil Dewey, J. I. Wyek {XehrasJca ,Sta. Rpl. 1899, pp. 91-121).— 

 "This classifu-ation of the literature of agriculture is the result of an attempt to 

 arrange satisfactorily, in minute subject order, the literature on agricultural topics 

 which has accumulated at the University of Nebraska liljrary during the past 10 

 years." The classification includes nearly 600 heads, and is designed to provide for 

 the most specialized agricultural literature, except in the department of floriculture. 

 An index is added. 



Bulletins of Alabama Station {Index to Vol. VII, Buls. 101-107, pp. 425-452). 



The new agriculture of the tropics, G. E. W. {Sci. Amer., S3 {1900), No. 5, 

 p. 67). — A discussion of tlie agricultural products of the tropics and the impiovement 

 of soils and plants by the application of scientific methods. 



Danish agriculture in 1899, R. Schou ( Tidsskr.Landokon., 1900, No. 1, pp. 1-26). 



Crops in Denmark in 1899, K. Hansen {Tidsskr. Landokon., 1900, No. 2, pp. 

 46-74). 



Agricultural syndicates in France, H. W. Wolff {Jour. Roy. Agr. Soc. England, 

 3. ser., 11 {1900), pt. 2, pp. 252-262). — Popular article pointing out the benefits to 

 French agriculture of the formation of cooperative societies among the farmers for 

 the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, farm implements, feeds, etc., needed by farmers, 

 and for the sale of farm products. 



