1918] KUEAL ECONOMICS. 393 



that have been grown and the best work that has been done in the community, 

 but also for games, athletic contests, pagents, and similar features of recrea- 

 tional or educational value. The community fair is most effective where the 

 whole community is concerned in its management, though successful fairs, 

 patronized by the greater part of the people of the community, are often held 

 by the Grange, Farmers' Union, or other farmers' organizations." 



Monthly crop report (V. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rpt., 3 {1911) f No. 11. pp. 

 105-116, ftgs. -i). — This contains a crop summary for November, 1917, and the 

 usual estimate of crop conditions, estimate farm value of important products, 

 average prices received by producers, and range of prices of agricultural prod- 

 ucts at important markets. In addition, there are shown data regarding the 

 crop conditions in Florida and California, prices of alfalfa and clover seed, 

 hop production and consumption, exports from the United States of leading 

 cereals, potatoes, and meats, the frost damage to corn, the percentage of farm 

 labor hired by the month and by the day, with and without board, the com- 

 mercial acreage and production of cabbage, monthly movement of wheat from 

 farms, crop prices and production, honey production in 1917, pecan production, 

 a potato forecast by months, monthly wheat prices, wheat prices in England 

 from 1259, etc. 



Exports of raw cotton from the United States (Neio York: National Bank 

 of Commerce, 1917, pp. 13). — This report discusses exports of cotton from the 

 United States to the leading European neutrals, endeavoring to point out to 

 what extent Germany has been able to obtain cotton by this means. 



Economical notes on Brazil {Rio de Janeiro: Min. Agr., 1916, 2. ed., pp. 93). — 

 This report contains discussions of the foreign trade in agricultural products 

 for 1910-1914, and of the industries using agricultural products, the cattle 

 industry, and immigration. The report contains a large amount of statistical 

 data relating to the various topics treated. 



Acreage under crops and the numbers and descriptions of live stock in 

 each county and province of Ireland, 1916—17 (Dept. Agr. and Tech. Instr. 

 Ireland, Agr. Statis., 1917, pp. 29). — By adding data for a later year, this 

 report continues the information previously noted (E. S. R., 36, p. 494). 



Agricultural statistics of Netherlands (Dept. Landb., Nijv. en Handel [Neth- 

 erlands], Verslag. en Meded. Dir. Landb., No. 3 (1917), pp. 132-\-XCI, fig. 1). — 

 This report gives data for 1916, with comparisons for earlier years, showing the 

 acreage, yields, number of live stock, business of the credit organizations, 

 insurance societies, extent of business conducted by rural banks, prices, im- 

 ports, and exports, and discusses the weather and crop conditions and crop 

 prices. 



Agricultural statistics of France (Ann. Statis. [France], 34 (1914-15), pp. 

 141-181). — This continues data previously noted (E. S. R., 34, p. 291) giving 

 statistics for later years. 



Live stock statistics, P. Van Hissenhoven (Internat. Inst. Agr. Rome, 

 Intcrnat. Crop Rpt. and Agr. Statis., S (1917), No. 10, pp. 808, 809).— Statistical 

 data are given showing the number of various classes of live stock on July 

 12, 1917, for Denmark, and on July 1, 1917, for Fnmce. 



[Agriculture in Babira, Belgian Kongo], Lacomblez (Bui. Agr. Congo 

 Beige, 8 (1917), No. 1-2, pp. 52-72, figs. 9).— In this article are described the 

 population, soils, vegetation, methods of communication, and native crops of 

 this district. 



Agricultural statistics of Australia for 1905-06 — 1915-16 (Common- 

 wealth Bur. Census and Statis. Aust., Prod. Bui. 10 (1917), pp. 168).— By add- 

 ing information for later years, this report continues the data previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 27, p. 595). 



