2 JANUARY 1909, Page 31

Among the specially useful almanacs of the year may be

mentioned Vinton's Agricultural Almanac and Diary (Vinton and Co., is.) Among the items of information we find the crops of 1908 in Great Britain. These were :—Wheat, 6,565,370 quarters, as against an importation (in 1907) of more than forty-four million pounds' worth ; barley, 0,830,081; oats, 15,467,619. All these were inferior to the produce of 1907. The marked superiority of the year was in potatoes, which show 3,019,708 tons as against 2,977,485.—From the same publishers also comes, in a special line, the Live Stock Journal and Almanac (1s.)