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cost data are grlven for baud and motor driven curryluif machines and combi- 

 nation currying and shearing machines. 



RURAL ECONOMICS. 



[How will an increase in crop output affect prices and incomes?] {Farmers' 

 Rev., U (1012), No. 10, p. 259).— This article illustrates by the table below, 

 compiled from census reports, that an increase in output of farm products in 

 the United States will not necessarily mean a decrease in price per unit or in 

 total amount received. 



Total output, value, etc., of farm products in the United States, 1900-1910. 



Other illustrations are given showing the total value of farm crops to have 

 increased from $5,017,000,000 in 1900 to $8,920,000,000 in 1910. Nevertheless the 

 total value of beans, peas, onions, and potatoes imported increased from 

 $5,092,932 in 1906 to $8,273,371 in 1910. 



From producer to consumer, M. C. Smith (Farmers' Rev., Jt4 (1912), No. 

 14, PP- 4, 18, figs. 2). — ^This is a popular article describing in more or less 

 detail the establishment and success of a public market in Rockford, 111., 

 where producer and consumer are enabled to complete their marketing trans- 

 actions without the aid of the middleman. 



Farm management, W. M. Hays et al. (Minnesota Sta. Bui. 125, pp. 7--)^, 

 pis. 5, figs. 10; U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus. Bui. 236, pp. 7-.'/-^, pis. 5, figs. 

 ItO). — The term "farm management," is said to include "the selection, plan- 

 ning, organization, and development of the farm and the daily and yearly con- 

 duct of the farm business," and " the object sought in research in farm manage- 

 ment is to secure the elementary facts which must be utilized in organizing 

 and conducting the business of the farm in such a way as to give the maxi- 

 mum of products, profits, and enjoyment to the owner and to the farm family, 

 to supply farm products in the best way to all who need them, and gradually 

 to increase the productivity of the soil." 



In addition to discussing and outlining the scope of farm management this 

 portion of the bulletin presents a number of results obtained from investigations 

 made for the purpose of determining the best methods of crop rotation and the 

 cost of producing farm products in Minnesota (E. S. R., 21, p. 188). It also dis- 

 cusses and illustrates by means of tables and charts methods of planning the 

 farm and its business organization, planning fields for rotation of crops, com- 

 paring cropping schemes with standard rotation, showing profits and losses, 

 the use of cost statistics of farm products, value of farm products, etc. 



The outlook for agriculture in the Canal Zone, W. A. Taylor (U. 8. Dept. 

 Agr., Rpt. 95, pp. 39-49, pis. 2). — From a study of the climate, soil, crops, and 

 other conditions bearing upon the development of agriculture bordering the 

 Panama Canal, observation discussions are given of the humid tropical cli- 

 mate; broken topography of the surface and the clayey nature of most of the 



