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bacteriology will probably soon show us a method of greatly prolong* 

 ing the sweetness of milk. By a method of milk testing, we are 

 now able to say just how much butter-fat a given amount of milk 

 contains, i. e, how many pounds of butter can be made from the given 

 quantity of milk. This being the case, the milk now sold at creameries 

 is paid for in proportion to the amount of butter-fat it contains. Thus 

 we see the intimate relations existing between the sciencies which 

 underlie agriculture. We also see that science has brought agriculture 

 forward to the state of advancement in which it now stands. That 

 agriculture should be our foremost, as it ever has been primarily the 

 most important, industry there can be no doubt. But science has not 

 completed its work in aiding agriculture. Indeed, the results so far 

 obtained but go to show the possibilities which lie beyond. Other 

 equally important results in scientific agriculture may be looked for, 

 and if the agriculturist wishes to be successful, he should put the 

 latest results of scientific investigations into immediate practice. The 

 greatest aid to the agriculturist in this country is the experiment 

 stations— and it is through these institutions that much of the future 

 aid to agriculture will be brought forward. — ( American Agriculturist.) 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT. 



Library. 



New Ferns of 1892-'93 by J. G. Baker. [Kew.] 



Report on Dept. of Agriculture N. W. Provinces & Oudh for 1893. [Kew.] 

 Report on Bot. & Afforestation Dept. Hong Kong for 1893. [Supt.] 

 Report of Agri. Work in Bot. Gard.. B. Guiana for 1891-92. [Supt.] 

 Report on Exp. Fields, Dodd's Reformatory Barbados, 1892. [Supt.] 

 Report Bot. Station St. Lucia, 1893. [Curator.] 

 Report Bot. Station, Lagos, 1893. [Curator] 

 Report Bot. Station, Gold Coast, 1893. [Col. Secy.] 

 Report Bot. Station Antigua, 1893. [Curator.] 



Report Dept. of Agri,, Queensland, 1892-93. (2 copies). [Dept. of Agri.] 

 Report on Rust in Wheat Experiments, &c. [Dept. of Agri., N. S. Wales.] 

 Agri. Gazette of N. S. Wales, May, 1891, April & May, 1894. [Dept. of Agri.] 

 Agri. Journal of Cape Colony, Nos, 10-13 May & Juue 1894. [Dept. of 

 Agri.] 



Agri. Gazette & Planters' Journal, Barbados, Nos. 6 & 7 June & July, 1894, 

 [Editor.] 



Planters Monthly, Honolulu. Nos. 6 & 7 June and July, 1894. [Editor.] 

 Sugar Journal and Trop. Cultivator, Queensland. No. 4, May, 1894. [Editor.] 

 Sugar Cane. No. 300. July, 1894. [Editor.] 

 Supp. to Leeward Islands Gazette. Nos. 29-30. [Dept of Agri.] 

 Journal Field Nat. Club, Trinidad. Nos. 2 & 3. June and August, 1894 

 [Secy.] 



Proc. and Journal of the Agri. Horti. Socy. of Madras. Jan. -March, 1894. 

 [Secy.] 



Botanical Gazette, Nos. 6 & 7. June & July, 1894. [Editor.] 

 Bulletin Royal Gardens, Kew. Nos. 90 & 91. June & July, 1894, & app. II. 

 1894. [Kew.] 



Bulletin Bot. Gardens, Trinidad. No. 22. April, 1894. [Supt.] 

 Bulletin Dept. of Agri. Brisbane. No. 2. March, 1894. [Dept. of Agri.] 

 Bulletin Torrey Bot. Club. Nos. 6 & 7. June & July, 1894. [Editor.] 

 Bulletin Koloniaal Museum, Haarlem. May, 1894. [Editor,] 

 Bulletin de L'Herbier Boissier, Suisse. Nos. 6 & 7. June & July, 1894. 



[Conservateur.] 

 Revue Agricole. No. 5, May, 1894. [Conservateur.] 

 Science Gossp. No. 5. July, 1894. [Editor.] 



Chemist and Druggist. Nos. 738- 745. June- July, 1894. [Editor.] 



