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farm expenses, age of farmers, terms of occupancy of farms, farms and farm 

 property, and live stock not on farms. 



[Agricultural statistics of Trinidad and Tobago], W. G. Freeman (Rpt. 

 Dept. Agr. Trinidad and Tobago, 1916, pp. 4-7). — This contains statistics re- 

 garding the principal agricultural exports in 1916, and notes the registering of 

 the first agricultural credit society under the new ordinance going into opera- 

 tion in 1916 and the progress of agricultural education. 



A study of the native agricultural-pastoral colonies, A. C. Muello (Bol. 

 Min. Agr. [Argentina], 22 (1917), No. 2, pp. 172-205, figs. 5).— This article de- 

 scribes the geographical features, with data as to the rainfall and temperature 

 of the colonies in the region of the Teuco and Vermejo Rivers in north- 

 ern Argentina. It contains estimates of the cost of production of important 

 crops, and reports on the means of communication and the local government. 



The war and Brazilian foodstuffs (U. S. Dept. Com., Com. Rpts., No. £56 

 (1918), pp. 419-425). — This is a report, with statistics, on the production and 

 exportation of vegetable foodstuffs from Brazil, showing the development of 

 several new crops which, at prevailing prices, were more profitable than coffee. 



British agriculture as a business proposition, J. H. Guy (Jour. Bd. Agr. 

 [London], 25 (1918), No. ■). pp. %0t-±16). — An American lecturer suggests, as 

 three basic conditions for success, that capita] combined with expert manage- 

 ment shall operate (1) to turn over the capital of the farming industry more 

 frequently; (2) to control its purchasing and distributing machinery so that 

 it can pass on its fair and reasonable costs to the consumer; and (3) to cease 

 paying profits to interlopers who may intrude between the factory and the farm 

 and the farm and the consumer. Tables are given to emphasize the author's 

 conclusions. 



Ireland as a food supplier of Great Britain (Jour. Bd. Agr. [London] 

 (1918), No. 4, pp. MI-U8; Dublin: Dept. Apr. TecH. Initr. Ireland. 191S. pp. 

 4). — Statistics are given as to the value of foodstuffs imported into Great 

 Britain from Ireland from 1912 to 1916 and the quantities of foodstuffs im- 

 ported, comparing the average of the Irish supply for the prewar years 1912 

 and 1913 with the average of the two years 1916 and 1917, and comparing the 

 average of the supply from all other countries for the same prewar years with 

 that of 1916. Notes on the importance of Ireland as an essential food base 

 for Great Britain and on the regulation of exports and imports between Ire- 

 laud and Great Britain are included. 



Agricultural and live stock statistics of Finland (Ftatis. Irsbdk Finland, 

 n. ser., 14 (1916), pp. 122-189. 687-692).— -In addition to information previously 

 noted (E. S. R., 30. p. 6912), which is continued to date, new tables are Inserted 

 on capital invested and net returns on rural Improvements, number of rented 

 farms by governments in 1912, and economic status of the cooperative dairies 

 1905 to 1915. 



[Agriculture in the Belgian Kongo], F. Fallon (In V Agriculture au Congo 

 Beige. London: Belg. Min. Colon., Dir. Agr. [1917), pp. 42-57, figs. 9).— This 

 section of the publication contains reports on the labor situation from different 

 districts of the colony, and statistics as to the estimated cost of clearing, the 

 capital necessary to start a plantation in Katanga, the net cost of different 

 kinds of houses in some of the colonies, and the net cost of production of im- 

 portant crops. 



[Agricultural laws in the Belgian Kongo], F. Fallon (In V Agriculture au 

 Congo Beige. London: Belg. Min. Colon.. Dir. Agr. [1917], pp. 73-76).— This 

 chapter deals with legislation relating to agriculture. 



