The past few years have shown great progress in the method of sugar making. It used to be thought that a high grade of sugar could be made only by the use of the bone-black or animal-char process. The beet-sugar producers were the first to diverge from this method and succeeded in making a perfectly satisfactory sugar in their factories in one continuous process by the aid of the carbonitation system. Louisiana had been making a fairly good sugar known as yellow clarified for a number of years, but the great step in improvements along these lines was brought about by the acid-thin-juice process of Java. This was a combination of the carbonitation and sulphitation processes which gave a satisfactory sugar, though unfortunately the yield of resulting molasses was also quite high. The latest improvement in this work was the introduction of the "Battille Process" which has certain similarities to the Steffens process of beet-sugar manufacture. This method has given an excellent grade of sugar and the maximum rendement since practically all of the sugar is extracted in crystalized form. PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE. Subscription rates for The Philippine Agricultural Review are as follows: In the Philippine Islands and the United States P2 ($1 United States currency) per year; in foreign countries in the Postal Union P4 ($2 United States currency) per year. A limited number of the following-named bulletins are available for free distribution. All communications should be addressed to the Director of Agriculture, Manila, P. I. BULLETINS. No. 7. The Garden. (Spanish.) (62 pp., 9 ill.) No. 12. Abacá (Manila Hemp). (Revised.) (English and Spanish.) (40 pp., 11 ill.) No. 13. The Cultivation of Maguey in the Philippine Islands. (Spanish.) (26 pp., 9 ill.) No. 14. The Cultivation of Sesamum in the Philippine Islands. (Spanish.) (8 pp.) No. 16. Cultivation of Tobacco in the Philippines (Spanish, English, Ilocano, and Ibanag.) (24 pp., 6 ill.) No. 17. Coconut Culture. (Spanish.) (20 pp., 4 ill.) No. 18. The Mango. (English.) (60 pp., 9 ill.) (Out of print.) No. 19. Tests of the Efficiency of Antirinderpest Serum. (English.) (110 pp., 187 Charts and Diagrams.) No. 20. Notes on the Muscular Changes Brought about by Intermuscular Injection of Calves with the Virus of Contagious Pleuropneumonia (English.) (18 pp., 4 ill.) No. 21. A Study of the Normal Blood of Carabao. (English) (12 pp.) No. 24. The Role of Stomoxys calcitrans in the Transmission of Trypanosoma evansi. (English.) (51 pp., 5. ill.) No. 25. The Philippine Coconut Industry. (English.) (67 pp., 21 ill.) No. 26. The Kapok Industry. (English.) (41 pp., 11 ill.) No. 27. Citriculture in the Philippines. (English.) (60 pp., 43 ill.) No. 28. The Mechanical Transmission of Surra by Tabanus striatus. (11 pp.) NOTES