The Bulletins of this Bureau will not as a rule, contain origi- 

 nal unpublished matter. They consist, as said above, of reviews, 

 summaries and extracts, regarding the more interesting subjects 

 treated in the scientific and technical press on farming and on 

 agricultural research in each country. Whatever may be the 

 nature of the publications thus summarised, books, periodicals 

 or reports, published by academies, associations or congresses, 

 government reports and circulars, the chief object will be 

 to give a picture of the agricultural science and practice of 

 each country, without any attempt at criticism. The only 

 discrimination will consist in the selection of such matter as is 

 likely to be useful or suggestive to many, in several countries, 

 and of general interest. The responsability for the facts and 

 data given belongs solely, of course, to the authors whose 

 works are reviewed, or abridged, and whose words will be in 

 many cases quoted. 



Each nation will thus speak for itself, by its statistics and 

 enactments, through its own writers and experimenters, telling 

 the story of the present conditions of its husbandry and of 

 the day by day experience in farm and in scientific laboratory. 



The reviews or extracts will necessarily be brief, and in 

 some cases may even take the form of mere summaries or 

 bibliographical data. But as the object of these Bulletins is 

 to make the progress achieved by each country known to 

 other countries, and to diffuse and coordinate agricultural 

 knowledge, the reviews published must be more exhaustive 

 than the mere references made to such subjects in the many 

 Reviews, Records, Annals and Centr alb latter, published in 

 several countries. The Agricultural Intelligence Bureau of 

 the Institute avails itself of such reviews for rapidly getting at 

 the original sources of information ; but when these are not 

 attainable it will reprint the brief abstracts as given in the 

 special reviews, which will always, of course,be duly recorded 

 and quoted. 



When dealing with important passages and questions, the 

 text of the publication reviewed will often be quoted in the 

 original words. In the case of bulky publications or books, 

 dealing with several different questions, some of these may be 



