94 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



fiffs. J). — ^This volume contains a detailed description of the geology, soiJ, mois- 

 ture, and climatic conditions, peoples and colonization, systems of cultivation, 

 live stock, agricultural organizations and their improvement, and trade in ani- 

 mal ijroduce, in Argentina, and details concerning a number of typical agricul- 

 tural establishments. Statistical data, illustrations, and diagrams supplement 

 the text. 



An agricultural faggot, B.. H. Rew (Wcstmimtcr, 1913, pp. XII-\-lS7).— 

 This is a collection of papers on the following subjects relating to English 

 agriculture: Farming in olden times, agriculture under free trade, English 

 markets and fairs, the migration of agricultural laborers, the middleman in 

 agriculture, combination among farmers, cooperation for the sale of farm pro- 

 duce, the nation's food supply, selling stock by live vreight, and British and 

 French agriculture. 



The determination of the fertilizer requirements of soils, M. Hoffmann 

 {Arb. Dent. Lrnidw. Gesell., No. 251 {1913), pp. 182, pi. 1, figs. 5).— This report 

 summarizes the results of experiments with fertilizers on the Calvorde estate 

 from 1809 to 1912 and on a number of other estates from 1907 to 1912. The 

 results are discussed especially from the economic standpoint. 



Investigation of the management, organization, and profitableness of a 

 large farm, in the black earth region of Volhynia, J. Klein {Mitt. Landw. 

 Inst. Breslau, 7 {1914), Xo. 1, pp. J[9-200, figs. 11). — The author discusses the 

 following factors that enter into the management of a farm in the black earth 

 region of llussia : The soil, climate, influence of climate upon yields, proportion 

 of land under different types of cultivation, monthly distribution, kinds, and 

 management of labor, capital invested in land, buildings, animals, and fertil- 

 izers, and cost and revenue from various farm crops. Most of the records 

 shown cover a period of more than 15 years. 



The agricultural law; its improvement and enforcement, C. J. Hudson 

 {N. Y. Dept. Agr. Bill. 47 {1913), pp. 1217-1224, pl- J).— The author states that 

 the i)urpose of the laws applying to agriculture in New York is to provide means 

 for making the farms more productive, to search out by rigid inspection diseases 

 of plant and animal life and. to prescribe and apply the remedy, to stay the 

 ravages of insect pests, and to perform those numerous things whidh the 

 farmer, either singly or collectively, is unable to i^erform for himself. He sug- 

 gests some improvements that might be made in the laws already existing, and 

 discusses what the rigid enforcement of those already on the statute book would 

 mean. 



Can European cooperative credit methods be applied to American farm- 

 ing? E. W. Kemmerer (-Y. Y. Dept. Agr. Bui. //7 {1913), pp. 1291-1300, pl. 1).-— 

 The author gives as the reasons for the lack of development of short-term agri- 

 cultural credit in the United States the system of extensive cultivation, the 

 unsettled character of a considerable part of our agricultural population, the 

 heterogeneous character of many rural communities, and the isolation of our 

 farmers. He concludes that conditions are becoming more favorable for the 

 adopting of this type of credit, but that the initiative in the establishment of 

 rural credit banks should be taken by the farmers themselves and that only a 

 reasonable amount of government supervision seems desirable. 



Agricultural accident insurance in Belgium, M. E. Vliecergh {Intcvnat. 

 Inst. Agr. [Rome], Mo. Bui. Econ. and Soc. Intel., 5 {1914), ^'o. 2, pp. 37-49).— 

 According to the law passed in December, 1903, the farmer became liable for 

 accidents to his laborers similarly to other classes of employers. In applying 

 the law it became evident that the farmer himself or members of his family- 

 needed compensation for accidents as well as his laborers, so there was or- 



