288 



EXPERIMENT STATIOX EECOED. 



giveu for the years ISSO to ISU.l. but in some instances ai-e brought down to 

 J9t»5. 



Agricultural credit [in Brazil], J. I. Tosta (Bol. Dir. Agr. Bahia, .9 (1D07). 

 No. 3. pp. 221-232). — This article gives sections of the laws passed in 1007 

 anthorizing the establishment of cooperative societies iu Brazil and a govern- 

 ment loan of a million dollars to promote credit among the peasantry on the 

 basis of personal security. In discussing these laws the author i)oints out that 

 " the government loans money to an agricultural bank at 4 per cent interest, 

 the bank lends to cooperative societies at 5 or per cent. . . . and the society 

 loans to members at 8 per cent," and by this means the poor peasant is able to 

 borrow money with no security at the sjime rate of interest which landowners 

 have to pay iu Brazil on the basis of i-eal estate. 



Report on the agricultural bank in the Philippines, E. W. Kem merer 

 (Rpt. PhiJipphie Com., 1906. pt. J. pp. JfSo-GJil). — This report discusses the agri- 

 cultural conditions of the Philippine Islands, the high rates of interest (10 to 

 120 per cent) charged by money lenders in different provinces, the various forms 

 of agricultural credit adopted in many countries, and suggests plans believetl to 

 be best suited to present Philippine conditions. The law passed by Congress 

 since the submission of the report is included, together with appendixes on agri- 

 cultural credit in the Philippines, the agricultui*al bank of Egypt, the provisions 

 of the code of conunerce concerning mortgage and agricultural banks, the stat- 

 utes of the East Prussian and West Prussian Landschafts, the French law 

 regarding societies for the grant of land credit, the articles of the " Credit 

 Foncier of France." the laws and regulations relating to the Hiuigarian Boden- 

 Kredit Institut. extracts from the laws and regulations regarding real credit in 

 Italy, the law relating to the mortgage bank of the Canton of Berne, Switzer- 

 land; abstracts of the agricultund lianking laws of Australia and New Zealand, 

 •etc. .^ 



[Agriculture and cooperation in Denmark], .J. L. Bentox (Daily Consular 

 and Trade Rpts. [L . ,S'.]. 1901. Xo. 2916, pp. 1, 2). — Statistics show Denmark's 

 popidation in 1906 to have been 2.000,000. cf which 54 per cent belonged to the 

 agricultural classes. Only one-fifteenth of the agricultural population are 

 tenants or renters, the remainder being freeholders. The laws prevent the cre- 

 ation of large farms, and the following table shows the classification of farms 

 in 1906 : 



Clafisificdlion and total acrcafie of lands in T>cH)iiark, 1906. 



Acres. 



Total 

 acreage. 



7 or less 116,614 



7 to 11 1 16,988 



11 to 2'2 28, 992 



22 to 33 17, 723 



33 to 67 • 35,257 



67 to 135 25,615 



239, 604 

 159, 882 

 473, .598 

 496, 962 

 1,752,121 

 2,346,295 



Number. 



135 to 270 



270 to .540 



540 and over , 



Total 

 acreage. 



6,502 1,169,484 



1,590 574,946 



822 I 964,327 



Total ' 250, 103 8, 177, 169 



Out of the total acreage in farms, 5.267,900 acres belong to farms ranging in 

 size fi'om 33 to 270 acres in extent. In addition to the above there are some 

 68,000 small holdings containing about 4 acres each. 



Statistics for 1906 show that there were 1.085 cooperative dairies with 158,170 

 members, 33 bacon factories with 91,000 members, and a cooperative egg export- 

 ing society with 500 local centers. Statistics of the business transacted by these 

 organizations in 1906 are included. 



General agricultural conditions in Calabria, D. Tariffi {Atti li. Acrad. 

 Econ. Ai/r. Gcorfi. Fircnzc, 5. scr., .'j (1901 \. .Y". 1. pp. 15-3S). — ^This article 



