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naturally, it deals principally with work done in the United 

 States ; but for the most part it is little more than an index. 

 The Institute's Bulletin, on the other hand, consists of lengthy 

 summaries of all important reports and articles, and the readei 

 will seldom feel the necessity of obtaining the original publica- 

 tion, and, as the summary is in English while the original 

 may be in any language, the value of this will be evident. 

 The Institute is enabled to publish such full summaries 

 only because it confines its attention to matters which 

 are absolutely new, important, and indicative of progress. 

 The value of the bulletin may, perhaps, best be illustrated 

 by giving the titles of three successive articles which 

 appeared in the issue for September, 1912, the latest I have 

 seen ; the articles are grouped according to subject, and the 

 following are those given under the head " Feeds and Feeding " : 

 (1) Methods for calculating the influence of the diminution in 

 milk yield due to advance of the lactation period during feeding 

 experiments — this being a summary of a report of an investiga- 

 tion published in a German periodical ; (2) A practical method 

 of increasing meat production and of decreasing its net cost — 

 from a French bulletin ; and (3) On the feeding value of 

 potato haulms and berries — from a German weekly. The 

 bulletin will be found a most valuable source of reference for 

 the agricultural scientist and investigator, and of great interest 

 to the practical farmer. The Bureau of Agricultural Intelli- 

 gence and of Plant Diseases has also issued separate publications 

 on the protection of birds and on dry farming. When it first 

 began to summarise articles and reports from agricultural 

 periodicals it was thought that the summaries could best be 

 published on a geographical basis. This plan was abandoned 

 and the monthly bulletin above described was started. One 

 volume, however, has been issued in accordance with the first 

 plan and it deals with Great Britain. This is a unique work 

 consisting of 640 pages, and it reviews the whole of the 

 important publications issued in 1910 dealing with the science 

 and practice of farming in Great Britain. 



Agricultural Co-operation, Insurance, and Credit. 



There are subjects in which agriculturists in Great Britain 

 have much to learn from other countries, and the publica- 

 tions of the Institute serve a useful purpose in bringing 

 together the scattered information of all countries. With 

 regard to co-operation and allied movements, even in this 

 country, its publications give in a readable form information 

 which is l)y no means easily accessilile. The principal publi- 

 cation on this subject is the Bulletin of the Bureau of 

 Economic and Social Intelligence. This bulletin is conducted 



