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colonization as thoy have existed in the Doited States is eiwn, together with 

 comments and comparisons of the plans employed In Australia, New /''aland, 

 r.rui tlu> city of l 'l m. Germany. 



The author suggests that we must regard land as the chief public utility, and 

 that we should have land settlement divisions of our departments of agriculture 

 to exercise functions analogous to the railway and public utility commissions. 

 These activities should consist in the expausion of present services — agricul- 

 tural education, university certification of farms as to labor and living condi- 

 tions, and the organization of suburban and country homes and farm hoi: 

 companies to furnish the land purchaser with the best possible dwellings compati- 

 ble with a modest return of capital, say, 6 per cent. The companies acting in 

 conjunction with the universities should advise would-be purchasers of land 

 with regard not only to their own well-selected lots but also other lands. A 

 portion of the profits of these companies should be devoted to scientific investi- 

 gation of land problems. The problem of the returning soldiers and sailors of 

 the present war is thought to add an urgent reason for action by the Government 

 with regard to colonization methods. 



The agricultural accident insurance at Baden (Landw. Jahrb. Sehicriz, 32 

 (1918), No. 2, pp. 209-221).— This is a report as to the methods and policy of 

 agricultural accident insurance as applied at Baden. 



Cooperation and markets branch (Rpt. Min. Agr. Ontario, 1917. pp. 55-59, 

 fig. 1). — This article discusses the act passed by the Ontario Legislature in 1917 

 providing for the incorporation of cooperative companies and associations as 

 such. The author states that a standard set of by-laws has been issued, and 

 lists the cooperative companies thus far incorporated. 



Conference of representatives of the grain trade of the United States {Conf. 

 Represent. Grain Trade U. S., 1918, pp. Ill +252). — This is a report of the dis- 

 cussions of representatives of the grain trade of the United States during a 

 conference held in April, 191S, at New York City. The subjects discussed in- 

 cluded the problems of the country dealer, such as storage, grades, competition, 

 etc.; terminal and the seaboard problems, such as elevators, insurance, com- 

 missions, etc.; milling questions as affecting grain handling; and new crop 

 problems. 



Facts for the farmer (£7. Paul, Minn.: Nat. Nonpartisan Tjrague, 1917, pp. 

 133, figs. 6). — Among the subjects discussed in this book are farm tenancy and 

 farm mortgage, taxation, grain, butter and eggs, meat supplies, etc. The 

 preface indicates that the data given are taken from official or other authorita- 

 tive records and relate to conditions important to the farmer as a producer and 

 to the wage worker as consumer, and that while the book is issued as a Minne- 

 sota handbook, mucb of its contents apply in more or less pertinent degree to 

 other States as well. 



Facts kept from the farmer (St. Paul, Minn.: Xat. Nonpartisan League, 1917, 

 pp. 79). — This book maintains that farmers must organize to protect their in- 

 terest and insure " their proper place in a reconstructed society." 



Eugenics and the agricultural community. O. C. Glaseb (Abs. in Rpt. Mich. 

 Aead. Sci., 19 (1917). pp. 105-106). — The author maintains that in times past 

 agriculture has retained the less alert and less ambitious and that agricul- 

 tural communities have resulted too much in intermarriage among a small 

 group of families. This period, however, is passing, and general education in 

 the laws of natural inheritance and other matters of eugenic importance may 

 be one of the most positive methods of Improving such conditions. A second 

 influence may be the use of the eugenics registry. It is pointed out that to 

 reduce the frequency of disgenic marriages and their unfortunate chain of con- 



