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considering various methods that might be used to bring the cut-over land 

 into agricultural use. 



Agricultural wages in Sweden, 1915, B. Nystrom and J. G. Richebt (Stock- 

 holm: K. Soc. Styr., 1916. pp. 39). — In this report are given for 1915 the sys- 

 tems of paying for work and the wages by types of work performed and whether 

 on the yearly or daily basis. The information is also given by sex and for 

 minor subdivisions. 



[Data relating' to agricultural contracts, 1914] (Finlands Off. Statis., XXX, 

 No. 5 {1916), pp. [41+32+15). — In this report data are given regarding laws 

 and contracts relating to wages and labor under the old and new systems, and 

 also to the rent and leasing of land, buildings, and forests. The data relate 

 mainly to the renting of small farms and give the areas under various types 

 of leases. 



The high cost of living, F. C. Howe {New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 

 1917, pp. A'+275). — The author has discussed the high cost of living as it is 

 dependent on the influence of the buying and selling of wheat in exchanges, 

 the system of marketing live stock, cold storage, transportation, value of land, 

 and the withholding of land from agricultural use. He also calls attention to 

 the organization of the agricultural interests in Austria, Germany, Denmark, 

 and Australia, and its effect upon prices and systems of agricultural practices. 



Eeport of the committee on warehousing and storing of sugar, for the 

 year ending September 30, 1917 {Hawaii. Sugar Planters' Assoc, Rpt. Com- 

 mittee Warehousing, 1917, pp. 67). — The authors include in this report infor- 

 mation received from plantation managers as to the methods of warehousing 

 and storing sugar, types of flooring and building, how ventilated, location with 

 reference to the ocean trade-winds, percentage of the total crops which can 

 be warehoused in an emergency, influence of methods of manufacture, in- 

 fluence of heat-resisting ferments on the keeping qualities, weighing auto- 

 matically or by hand, methods of sewing bags, mechanical means of piling 

 sugar in warehouses, and loss in weight in shipping to San Francisco and 

 to New York. 



Cold storage in Canada, W. F. O'Connor {Ottawa: Govt., 1917, pp. 63). — 

 In this report are discussed cold storage conditions in Canada, indicating the 

 classes and character of cold storage establishments, including abattoirs, and 

 the margins of profit for 1916-17. The author concludes that the operations 

 of cold storage companies generally have been fairly conducted and that the 

 margins of profit have not as a rule been so high as during 1916. He points 

 out that any reduction secured by lessening these margins would go only a 

 short way toward lessening prices to consumers. 



Cooperative marketing of eggs in Florida, Minnie M. Floyd {Fla. State 

 Col. for Women Ext. Bui. 16 {1917), pp. 27, figs. 12).— The author discusses the 

 methods of candling and marketing eggs, community egg circles, rules to be 

 followed by producers in assembling, shipping, and finding customers. A model 

 by-law and a constitution to be used by community egg circles are included. 



Uniform cost accounting for milk distributors, E. A. Kracke {Jour. Ac- 

 countancy, 24 {1917), No. G. pp. 4^4-429). — The author discusses the factors to 

 be considered in estimating the cost of milk distribution, such as sizes of bottles, 

 classes of trade, system of delivery, and whether the monthly or annual cost 

 is desired. 



The community fair, J. S. Moean {U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 870 

 {1917), pp. 11, figs. 8). — The author explains that "the community fair is a 

 miniature county fair with the races, side shows, and other commercialized 

 amusements omitted. It caUs not only for the exhibition of the best products 



