The exports of oil-seeds from India in the year ended March 31, 1915, amounted to 953,900 tons, valued at £9,750,000, as against 1,582,000 tons, valued at over £17,000,000, in 1913-14.
The Ferris bill, providing for the development of water-power and the use of public lands, has been passed by the House of Representatives and is before the committee on public lands of the Senate.
Two thirds of the steam and electric power used in the United States is controlled by less than one hundred corporations, the Stone & Webster interests of Boston standing at the top of the list of interlocking companies, according to a statement in the report of the secretary of agriculture, made in response to a resolution of the Senate and laid before that body.
Conditions mainly due to the great war in Europe continue to keep all the American shipyards operating at full capacity, while many plants are enlarging and otherwise adding to their facilities for constructing and repairing vessels.
An illuminating survey of the progress of legal education in the United States during the past fifteen years, an almost revolutionary period in this subject, was given at the fifteenth annual meeting in Chicago of the Association of American Law Schools by its president, Dean H.
The rapid growth of the idea of compensation of workmen for injuries received in the course of employment as a substitute for the old liability acts, is shown in a bulletin of the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor.
In his annual report for the fiscal year the secretary of agriculture indicates a number of important measures necessary for the betterment of agriculture in the United States.
His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, on his first official visit to South Australia, took the opportunity to become acquainted with the conditions in the state as regards afforestation.
The rapidly increasing consumption of Asiatic raw silk by American manufacturers has resulted in a definite movement on the part of the producers in China to obtain information regarding ways in which the trade between China and America in raw silk may be increased.
