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most interesting or important have been M. Vilmorin's annual 

 report on potato growing ; the report on the new potato, 

 Solatium Commersonii ; M. Helot's report on sugar beet culture ; 

 M. Bouquet de la Grye's report on the parasite of the woolly 

 aphis ; M. Vacher's communication on the subject of a new 

 herd-book for Pyrenean cattle ; some references to the use of 

 sugar products in cattle feeding ; and notices of certain works 

 on the economics of agriculture, rural depopulation and finance. 

 Communications were also made on vine growing, forestry, 

 Colonial products (cotton, rice, &c), and the manufacture of 

 alcohol. The French communications are all the work of indi- 

 viduals, and no mention is made of any subject being relegated 

 to any deputed body for consideration and report. The German 

 society, on the other hand, is divided into a large number of 

 general and special committees, a short account of whose work 

 is given. Among others, the following may be noticed as giving 

 an indication of the direction in which the attention of the 

 society is turned: the special committees on soil- bacteriology, 

 on tobacco manuring, the cultivation of moorlands, agricultural 

 labour (dealing with land colonies) ; departments of seed culti- 

 vation, tillage, cattle rearing, land cultivation (dealing with 

 irrigation), implements, farm-buildings, and the newly-created 

 department of farm management (Betriebsweserf), which ap- 

 parently proposes to enquire into the conditions of the business 

 side of farming in Germany and develop the already consider- 

 able assistance rendered by the society in this respect to 

 individual farmers. Seeds and manures are also purchased 

 from the society. The sittings of the conference lasted several 

 days, during which papers on various subjects of special interest 

 to German agriculturists were read. 



Copies of Volume XI. (April, 1904, to March, 1905), of 

 this Journal can now be obtained, bound in cloth with gilt 

 lettering, through W. H. Smith & Sons' 

 Bookstalls, Booksellers, or direct from the 

 Publishers, Messrs. Laughton & Co., Limited, 

 1, Essex Street, Strand, W.C. Price 7s. 6d. 



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