1918] RURAL ECONOMICS. 293 



Details regarding the method of making the computation and the results 

 obtained for the various items are included. 



The food supply of the German Empire (Rpt. Physiol. (War) Committee 

 Roy. Soc. [London'], 1 {1915), pp. 6, flgs. 2; 2 (1916), pp. 9).— These reports 

 discuss the food supply of Germany available duTing the first two years of the 

 war and point out the changes in its composition. 



The two agricultures, G. Sauvage {Paris: Author, 1916, pp. II-\-244)- — In 

 this book is given a general review of agriculture in Germany and France and 

 a discussion of different types of agricultural instruction found, the use of 

 agricultural machinery and motors, methods used in destroying injurious in- 

 sects, and establishing new agricultural industries and enterprises. 



Report of the national Scottish conference on employment on the land, 

 1916 {Rpt. Nat. Scot. Conf. Employment on Land, 1916, pp. lOIf, pis. 3). — Among 

 the subjects discussed in this conference were the employment of women and 

 of discharged soldiers and sailors on the land, methods of development and 

 extension of small holdings, cooperation in farming, conditions of successful 

 land settlement, and afforestation after the war. 



Report on the private insurance organizations in Switzerland for 1915 

 {Rap. Bur. Suisse Assur., Entrep. Priv. Nat. Asstir., 30, {1915), pp. 201). — In 

 this report are discussed the private insurance organizations for accidents, fire, 

 hail, live stock, loss in transit, damage from weather, and damage to glass. 

 Statistical data are also given showing the extent of the organizations and the 

 amount of business done. 



Cooperation in Wisconsin, B. H. Hibbakd and A. Hobson {Wisconsin Sta. 

 Bui. 282 {1917), pp. Jf-i, fiffs. IS). — Among the types of cooperative organizations 

 described are those connected with creameries, produce and feed, cheese, live 

 stock, merchandise, fruit, telephones, and laundries. The authors give infor- 

 mation regarding the extent of the various organizations and their develop- 

 ment and the reasons for their successes and failures, and point out that their 

 business now amounts to over $62,000,000 per annum. Of the 83 creameries in 

 the State 45 per cent are cooperative ; of the cheese factories, 37 per cent. 

 Among the various types of associations looking toward improvement of the 

 live-stock industries are live-stock shipping associations, community breeders' 

 associations, and cow-testing associations. 



It is pointed out that the professional promotion of associations by outside 

 parties is to be deplored and discouraged. 



Public markets in the United States, C. L. King et al. {Philadelphia: Nat. 

 Munic. League, 1917, pp. 82). — This is the second report of the committee on 

 public markets of the National Municipal League, and includes information 

 concerning public markets investments, annual receipts and expenditures, 

 rental of stalls, inducements to farmers, attendance, price to consumers, sani- 

 tary conditions, and consumers' views of the markets. 



Third annual report of the department of foods and markets, 1916 {Ann. 

 Rpt. Dept. Foods and Markets, N. Y., 5 {1916), pp. 26). — This report continues 

 the information previously noted (E. S. R., 36, p. 392), and adds data regard- 

 ing the investigation of methods of marketing foods, vegetables, poultry, and 

 milk, and methods used in securing an advance in prices paid to producers 

 of milk. 



Second annual report of the director of farm markets for the State of 

 Idaho, W. G. Schlotz {Ann. Rpt. Dir. Farm Markets, Idaho, 2 {1916), pp. 27). — 

 Among the activities of the director of markets in Idaho were the establishing 

 of a market news service, holding of State-wide conventions of farmers, develop- 

 ing of public markets and dairy and fruit industries, and assisting in land 

 settlement. There was also established an employment bureau for farm help. 



