790 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD, 



Additional tables are given showing tlie aggregate value of farm lands by 

 States, also the value of farm buildings and farm machinery, improved acreage, 

 expenditures for labor and fertilizers, tho average value per acre of lands alone 

 and the values of 12 leading crops in 1900 and 1910. 



Yearbook, 1910 (2V. Dak. Marj., J, {lillJ), Ao. /,, pp. 272, pi. 1, figs. 206).— 

 This publication gives a historical and descriptive sketch of the State of North 

 Dakota by counties, showing the agricultural, social, and political history of 

 each, supplemented by statistics concerning their population, and the commer- 

 cial, industrial, and agricultural growth during the past year. 



[Agriculture in Canada], J. W. Robebtson et al. (In Landu, Fisheries and 

 Game, and Minerals. Ottawa: Com. Conserv., 1011, pp. 1-33). — This report 

 presents results of an agricultural survey of representative areas in each prov- 

 ince, made by special agents of the Canadian government under the super- 

 vision of the officers of the provincial departments of agriculture and the 

 agricultural colleges. Visits were made to 100 or more representative farms 

 in each province and the information obtained is considered fairly representa- 

 tiA'e of the actual conditions in each regarding the " preservation of soil 

 fertility, the inroads of weeds and insect pests, and the practice of well-planned 

 farming as shown by systematic rotation of crops, the practice of sowing selected 

 seeds, and the application of manures or other fertilizers." 



Tables are given showing the area of field crops, and the yield and value 

 of farm products in the various provinces. 



Conservation of the soil, W. H. Taft ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Secretary Circ. 

 38, pp. 8). — This is an address before the National Conservation Congress, at 

 Kansas City, Mo., September 25, 1911, in which the present status of agriculture 

 in this country is discussed, together with the outlook for future development 

 along the lines of soil conservation, business administration, and agricultural 

 education. It is believed that the adoption of improved methods will so stimu- 

 late production that " we may look forward to the middle of this century, wlien 

 200,000,000 of people shall swear fealty to the starry flag, as a time when 

 America will still continue to feed her millions and feed them well out of her 

 own soil." 



The country-life movement, L. H. Bailey (New York, 1911, pp. XI+220). — 

 The author makes a careful distinction between the " country-life movement " 

 and the " back-to-the-farm " agitation, showing that the former " is the work- 

 ing out of the desire to make rural civilization as effective as other civilization," 

 and the latter is in part " the result of the doubtful propaganda to decrease 

 the cost of living by sending more persons to the laud, on the mostly mistaken 

 assumption that more products will thereby be secured for the world's markets." 

 A greater portion of the book is devoted to a discussion of some of the agencies 

 for a more equal development of social and economic conditions in country 

 and city life. 



Bookkeeping for small farmers {Jour. Bd. Agr. Brit. Guiana, 5 (1911), 

 Xo. 1, pp. 21-23). — A simple and practical method of farm bookkeeping for the 

 small farmer is fully explained and illustrated. 



The Bavarian Central Loan Bank Qnternat. Inst. Agr. [Rome^, Bui. Bur. 

 Econ. and 8oc. Intel., 2 (1911), No. 6, pp. 12-l.'t). — This bank was founded in 

 1894 as a limited liability company to serve as a kind of clearing house for 

 the Bavarian agricultural credit banks, which deposit with it their surplus 

 funds and receive loans from it, thus preserving to some degree an equilibrium 

 between societies with surplus funds and those in need of money. It deals 

 entirely with the affiliated agricultural banks and by fixing practically a 

 uniform rate of interest it prevents to a large extent its members from suffer- 

 ing by fluctuations in the market rate of discount. 



