488 



EXPEEIMENT STATION RECORD. 



300 members, each paying £8 4s. per share. The figures in the following table 

 show results of its working since beginning operation: 



Work of cooperative sugar factory at Dinteloord, 1909-1912. 



Years. 



Number of 

 members. 



1909-10 

 1910-11 

 1911-12 



644 

 704 

 720 



Number of 

 shares. 



3,150 

 3,368 

 3,430 



Beets 



handled 



per season. 



Tom. 

 65,000 



87. ono 



119,000 



Beets 



handled 



daily. 



Tons. 

 1,038 

 1,333 

 1,400 



Price paid 

 per ton. 



21s. 8d. 

 25s. Id. 

 28s. 4d. 



" From the farmers' point of view, the cooperative factoi-y is no doubt the 

 ideal way of going to worli." In this way the farmer gets his profits as beet 

 grower and his dividend as a sugar manufacturer, it being stated that for the 

 season 1911-12, " the members will be paid about 8s. 4d. more per ton for 

 their beets than they would have got . . . from the joint stock companies." 



[Compulsory insurance ag'ainst sickness and unemployment] {Internat. 

 Inst. Agr. [Rome], Bui. Bur. Econ. and Soc. Intel., 3 {1912), No. 4, pp. 103- 

 119). — This article presents a discussion of the national insurance act of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, which provides for the compulsory insurance of practically 

 all persons employed in the United Kingdom under any contract of service or 

 apprenticeship. The fund from which the insured are paid is raised by con- 

 tributions from the State, employers, and the insured persons. The compensa- 

 tion for men is 7d. per week, for \tomen 6d. " Where the rate of remuneration 

 exceeds Is. 5d. but does not exceed 2s. a working day, the State will pay Id. 

 per week, the employed contributor Id. per week, and the employer 5d. for 

 men and 4d. for women." Other data pertaining to the provisions and enforce- 

 ment of the act are given, also a lengthy bibliography. 



Influence of the agricultural associations and corporations on the organi- 

 zation of the German labor market {Internat. Inst. Agr. \Roine], Bui. Bur. 

 Econ. and Soc. Intel., 3 {1912), No. 3, pp. 36-47). — The progress in industrial 

 centers, depopulation of rural districts, new methods applied in farming, and 

 unwillingness of agricultural laborers to contract for long periods have greatly 

 increased the demand of German farmers for foreign labor, especially for the 

 i5owing and harvesting periods. Private labor bureaus being inadequate to 

 supply this demand, several unions and corporations have endeavored to cen- 

 tralize the organization of the agricultural labor market, under the Central 

 German Agricultural Labor Bureau. 



The government has recognized this bureau and bestowed upon it certain 

 special powers with regard to the registration of foreign laborers, and in 

 reorganizing the agricultural labor market. In 1909, the bureau procured 

 70,397 foreign laborers, 76,001 in 1910, and 78,296 in 1911. It legitimizetl, that 

 is, authorized to remain in the German Empire, 374,751 agricultural laborers 

 in 1910, and 387,902 in 1911. " It has begun to exert a very useful action as 

 arbiter between foreign laborers and German masters for the benefit and to the 

 advantage of both parties." In 1909, 280 workmen and 212 masters appealed 

 to it to settle their differences; in 1910 there were, respectively, 523 and 220 

 cases, and only 47 could not be amicably adjusted. 



Other data as to tlie work of the bureau are given. 



Increasing the eflaciency of farm labor, W. M. Kelly {Mich. Farmer, 138 

 (1912), No. 22, p. 613, fig. 1). — Observations are made showing that in order 

 to secure the greatest possible efficiency of farm labor the work must be 



