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7.6 cts., respectively. The difference between the lowest and highest average 

 feed cost per hour of horse labor was 4 cts. 



Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians. — An Indian interpretation, G. L. 

 Wilson [Viiii-. Miwi., Studies Soc. Sci., No. 9 (1911), pp. X-{-129, pis. 5, figs. 

 JfO). — This study is based on the narrative of an Indian woman, and contains 

 information regarding the methods of laying out the garden, crops grown, 

 methods of selecting seed, cultivating crops, tools used, storage for winter use, 

 and the influence of the white man upon their system of agriculture. 



[Social and educational surveys of Lancaster community, Kentucky], 

 C. I). BoHANKAN (Kentucky Sta. Rpt., 28 (1915), pt. 1, pp. 10-12).— This sur- 

 vey has as its purpose the extension of the relations existing between town 

 and country, and to formulate a plan for community development based on 

 actual needs of the community. It points out that for sincere development 

 there must be hearty cooperation. While country schools are on a par with 

 those of any other community, there is too large a dropping out of pupils 

 between the first and eighth grades. There is need for improvement in the 

 housing conditions amon^- the poorer classes, both owner and tenant. In place 

 of a cultivated crop on hillsides subject to erosion alfalfa is suggested. It 

 recommends the admission of farmers as well as city men to membership in 

 the Lancaster Commercial Clubs and the installation in the high school of a 

 department of agriculture and home science, with a short course during the 

 winter months for older l)oys and girls. 



The farmhouse in relation to food supply a.nd labor problems, j\Irs. Blair 

 (Jour. Bath and West and South. Counties Soc., 5. ser., 11 (1916-17), pp. 25!i- 

 262). — The author points out that it is the function of the farm home to be 

 attractive and efficient; in order to maintain the necessary number of persons 

 in the rural community. 



The national food supply in peace and war, T. B. Wood (Cambridge, Eng- 

 land: JJniv. Press. 1917, pp. J/3). — The author believes that in order to secure 

 the necessary food supply for Great Britain " the policy which should be 

 adopted must be based on five general principles: (1) It must secure the 

 maximimi amount of food for human consumption. (2) It must be suffi- 

 ciently simple to be put into actual practice. (8) It must avoid dislocation of 

 the ordinary channels of distribution. (4) It must remove temptation from 

 the farmer, by making agricultural products which can be dispensed with less 

 remunerative than those which are indispensable. (5) It must be enforced 

 by penalties so heavy that no one dare risk them." 



He also believes that these plans could be given effect, first by the publica- 

 tion of an order forbidding the use of potatoes and cereals for feeding live 

 stock or for any other purpose than for human food ; second, that in order 

 that distribution may be continued through ordinary channels, there must be a 

 certain elasticity in price which will allow distributing agents to make suffi- 

 cient profit to maintain their normal efficiency. 



Appeal for mobilization of agricultural products, G. Brunnelli (Agr. Mod. 

 Milan, 23 (1917), No. 18, pp. 237, 238).— The autJior recommends the establish- 

 ment of an Italian national committee with subsidiary local committees to 

 supervise propaganda, provide fertilizers, aid in the requisition of agricultural 

 products for military purposes, and obtain the services of scientific institutions 

 in giving necessary advice regarding regional products and the national pro- 

 gram. 



Wheat dockage on a percentage basis, E. D. Davis (Minneapolis, Minn.: 

 Author, 1917, pp. Jf8). — This pamphlet contains tables designed to facilitate 

 the figuring of dockage and net weights on wheat when the dockage is com- 

 puted on a percentage basis. 



