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life iind the importcance of farm records, together with simple illustrations of 

 methods for keeping a record of farm income and expenditures. 



Bookkeeping' for farmers, P, G. (tIlokr {Dci)t. A'/r. N. »s'. M'ales, FarDicrs' 

 Bill. /f3, 2. cd., 1911, pp. 20). — This bulletin presents reasons for keeping farm 

 accounts and suggests methods by which such accounting may be simplified and 

 made practicable. 



Cost of living- iii France, J, E, Dunning iDaihi Cons, and Trade Rpt.^. 

 [U. 8.], 15 (1912), No. 21, pp. ^Oi-//0//),— In discussing the cost of living in 

 France as compared with other countries it is noted that despite the high price 

 of food it is still possible for the small French family to live comfortably 

 according to its own standards at a much lower rate than will be paid in the 

 United States for the support of an equal number of individuals. The differ- 

 ence is said not to arise from the fixed charges of life, such as rent, food, cloth- 

 ing, and fuel, but from the tendency of the American family to live up to or 

 beyond its income in supplying itself with comparative luxuries, which the 

 French family of equal station has so far considered beyond its reach. Another 

 source of difference noted is in the character of the i^eople, the average ambition 

 in France being to live comfortably on a comparatively fixed income, whereas 

 in the United States income is regarded as ever subject to increase through 

 effort. 



The report notes further, however, that the present increased cost of living, 

 in view of the French law, is not due to combinations in restraint of trade and 

 augmentation of prices, but simply to a demand for better, and therefore more 

 exjiensive, conditions of living. The remedy as suggested by the French them- 

 selves is reduction of the tariff on mutton and pork and an increase of the 

 wage scale or purchasing power of the people. 



Crop Reporter (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bin: ,S7r;?/.N\ Crop Reporter, I'l (1912), No. 

 J, pp. 8, figs. 10). — Notes and statistics are given showing the stocks of potatoes 

 January 1. 1912, the proposed scope of ci'op reports in 1912, value of farm prod- 

 ucts on dates indicated, range of prices of agricultural products at important 

 markets, wheat supply and distribution by States, exports of farm and forest 

 products from the United States during the years ended June 30, 1910, and June 

 80, 1911, monthly receipts and stocks of eggs and poultry in the United States, 

 and the quantity of wheat and oats sown per acre by States. There is also a 

 brief summary of Bulletin S.5 of the Bureau abstracted on page 532. and charts 

 illustrating the 1911 production of corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax seed, 

 tobacco, and Irish potatoes by States. 



[Exports and imports of agricultural products in France] (Bui. Mens. 

 Off. Renscig. Agr. [Paris], 10 (1911), No. 11, pp. 1369-137.',). —Tables are given 

 showing the quantity and value of the principal agricultural products Imported 

 and exported by France during the first months of 1909, 1910, and 1911, 



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Report of the committee on instiniction in agriculture, 1911 (U. 8. Dept. 

 Agr., Office E.rpt. Stas. Circ. 115, pp. i9).— Previously noted (E. S. R., 26, 

 p. 10). 



The committee recommends the use of the term " home economics " to desig- 

 nate subjects and departments heretofore variously designated as " domestic 

 science." " home science," and " domestic art," etc. 



Training teachers to teach agriculture, C. H. Winkler (Farm and Ranch, 

 31 (1912), No. If, p. 9). — The author holds that ignorance among teachers 

 regarding the most elementary facts in agriculture, together with an utter 

 lack of interest in farm life, constitutes one of tlie chief obstacles to the intro- 



