690 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The county farm bureau, B. H. Crocheron (California Sta. Virc. 118 ilQl-i), 

 pp. 18, figs. 9). — The uuthor discusses the functions of the farm bureau, a 

 county organization of tliose interested in agriculture " to assist tlie farm ad- 

 viser in his worli in tlie county," outlines the method of organization, and 

 gives a constitution and by-laws previously noted (E. S. R.. 30, p. 695). 



Community improvement clubs for the rural and village comm.unities of 

 Kentucky, C. D. Bohannan {Kentucky Sta. Ext. Circ. 19 (191^), pp. 3i).— This 

 contains a model constitution for a rural community improvement club and 

 suggestions for making a study of a rural community along the lines of health 

 and sanitation, and economic, social, religious, and school conditions. These 

 suggestions are in the form of questions the answers to which the community is 

 to determine for itself. A brief bibliography is included. 



Economic associations of rural Poland, A. Szembek {Les Associations 

 Economiquen des Paysans Polonais Sous la Domitmtion Prussienne. Paris and 

 Brusftcls [191-'t], pp. XVI+461). — This book contains a detailed statement of 

 the histoi'y and organization of mutual credit societies, cooperative associa- 

 tions, and agricultural clubs in Poland, and their relation to their respective 

 centra] organizations. A brief bibliography is included. 



Buyers and sellers in the cotton trade, H. B. Heyhn {London, 1913, pp. 

 Vni-\-2.i4, pi. 1). — This book describes the cotton trade, the sources of supply, 

 the progress of cotton manuf:icture in England, and various phases of the dis- 

 tribution of cotton and cotton goods. Statistical data are given showing the 

 production, consumption, trade, and prices for a series of years. 



Second annual report of the markets commissioner of the Province of 

 British Columbia, J. F. Smith {Ann. Rpt. Markets Comr. Brit. Columbia, 2 

 {191S), pp. 31). — This report contains a .summary of the work of the markets 

 commissioner during 1913, and gives information regarding the consumption 

 of fruit at prairie centers, freight rates, prices, cost of production, and rules 

 regarding grades. 



Stability of farm operators, or term of occupancy of farms {Bur. of the 

 Census [V. S.] BuL, Ayr. U. S., 1910, Stability of Farm Operators, pp. 22). — In 

 taking the last census of agriculture, the question was asked. " How long have 

 you lived on this farm?" These data have been tabulated by number of years 

 of occupancy and by color and tenure of farmers, and may be summarized as 

 follows : 



Farm operators in tlie United States classified by number of yearn on farm and 



by tenure, 1910. 



Persons engaged in agriculture, W. E. Bear {Trans. Highland and Agr. Soc. 

 Scot., 5. ser., 26 {1914), PP- 233-24.')) .—The author by the use of the census data 

 as a basis estimates that the decreases in persons engaged in agriculture in the 

 United Kingdom were 4.6 per cent for males and 19 per cent for females in the 

 decade ended 1«91. whilt! the corre.spondlng decreases for the 10 years endtnl 



