RURAL ECONOMK^S. 391 



(■veto on the farm and llic a(lvanta^^'s following,' its use. Among the uses- 

 ('numerated are foundations for houses, barns, and windmills, sidewalks, fence 

 ])osts, water troughs, cisterns, tanks, and cesspools, tioois for house and stable, 

 stairs, well curbs, stalls, hog pens, chicken houses, corncribs, ice houses, in- 

 cubator cellars, nuishroom cellars, hotbed frames, bridge abutments, chimneys, 

 ventilators, and hitching posts. 



Attention is called to the fact that in estimating on cost of concrete sufEcient 

 broken stone should be pi'ovidiMl to till the whole volume under estimate, since 

 the cement and sand merely till the voids in the broken stone. 



A calculation is given of the cost of concrete posts, by which it is found that 

 posts can be made for 14 cts. each. It is explained, however, that this low 

 cost would be possible only when large numl)ers of posts are made. 



Detailed bill of material for storage barn, sheds, feed lots, and other 

 equipment for feeding experimental cattle in carload lots, II. W. Mumford 

 and E. S. Goon (Illinois St a. Vive. lO'i, pp. 111). — A circular supplementing 

 Bui. 110 of the Illinois Experiment Station and giving a detailed bill of 

 material used in an experimental cattle-feeding plant. 



RURAL ECONOMICS. 



Changes in farm values, 1900-1905, G. K. Holmes (C7. ^. Bept. Agr., Bur. 

 Statis. Bill. //S, pp. Ji6). — Detailed statisti(?al data on this subject are reported. 

 The analysis, economic causes, and character of the resirits of this investi- 

 gation have been previously noted from another source (E. S. R., 18, p. 291). 



Local conditions as affecting farm values, 1900-1905 (U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Bur. Statis. Bid. Jf.'/, pp. SS). — This bulletin consists of a partial reprint of an 

 article from the Yearbook for IDO.") (E. S. R., p. 291) with selected state- 

 ments from reports of 4.j,000 crop correspondents which show " the local 

 conditions affecting values of farms in all parts of the country." The state- 

 ments in general apply to medium-size farms, cover five years, and are 

 gi-ouped into counties and States under geographical divisions of the United 

 States. 



Keport and scheme of national land settlement, H. R. Haggard {London: 

 Govt.. I'JO'), pp. \'fl I -\- 7-'/). — The contents of this report have already been 

 noted from anotli(>r source ( E. S. R.. 17. jt. SK!). 



Agricultural settlements in British colonies {London: Dcpt. Com. Agr. 

 Settlements Brit. Colonies, 1906, vols. 1, pp. iV + Jfl ; 2, pp. IV + 381).— In 

 January, 1905, Mr. H. R. Haggard w^as appointed special commissioner by 

 the British government to investigate and report on the Salvation Army 

 agricultural colonies established in the United States and at Hadleigh, Eng- 

 land, with a view of suggesting some scheme for the settlement on agricul- 

 tural laud in the colonies of poor individuals and families fi'om British cities 

 (see above). 



The report of the committee appointed by the British government to con- 

 sider the i)lan suggested by the sjiecial commissioner is given in volume 1 

 of this publication, together with notes and memoranda by individual mem- 

 bers of the connnittee bearing on certain phases of the subject. The report 

 treats of the history of British agricultural colonies during the nineteenth 

 century in Canada. South Africa, and Australia ; outlines and discusses the 

 scheme for agricultural settlements i)roposed by Mr. Haggard ; reviews the 

 evidence of witnesses who testified before the committee as to the respective 

 merits of colonization and emigration ; and enumerates the reasons why the 

 scheme for national land settlement proposed by the commissioner should not 



