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agricultural wages, a decrease in the amount of fallow land and an Increase 

 in production, and larger incomes for proprietors. 



The marketing 1 of Canadian grain under war conditions. W. R. Bawlf 

 (Winnipeg, Canada: Winnipeg Grain Ex., 1918, pp. 12, fig. 1). — The author 

 declares that the order-in-council which increases the power of the Board of 

 Grain Supervisors is acceptable to the grain trade as increasing its chances 

 for survival and maintaining the principle of Canadian autonomy in Canadian 

 commerce. Under the former system, it is stated, marketing of western wheat 

 was practically in the hands of representatives of the Allies and grain firms 

 were being thrown out of business altogether. 



Cereal and seed prices for 1919 (Bui. Soc. Apr. France, 1918, Sept., pp. 203- 

 205). — These pages contain a brief correspondence between the president of 

 the Society of French Agriculturists and the Minister of Agriculture, with the 

 decree which fixed the maximum prices for the 1910 harvest of cereals. 



Cost of producing the 1918 cotton crop, W. B, Yeary kt at.. (Austin, TfT.: 

 Drpt. Agr., 1918, pp. 4). — The data in this report were compiled from results 

 of records returned by several hundred farmers in all parts of the State. < »n 

 the basis of 160 lbs. of lint cotton per acre and $70 per ton for the seed, the 

 cost per pound of lint is estimated at 35 < 



County marketing schemes (-four. Bd. Agr. [London], 25 (1!>1*). Xn. 4, pp. 

 464, 455). — This notice shows 46 counties in England and Wales where sys- 

 tematized marketing is in full swing. Great elasticity is shown in the arrange- 

 ment of marketing schemes. 



Manual of laws pertaining to the Department of Farms and Markets 

 (N. T. Dept. Farms and Market*, Din. Agr. Bui 108 [1918), pp. B78).— This 

 bulletin supplements the data previously noted (B. S. EL, .'i'".. p. 888). 



[Transportation in the Belgian Kongo], P. FAIXOlf (In /.' Agriculture nu 

 Congo Beige. London: Belg. i/i». Colon., Dir. Igr. [1917], pp. 66-72, figs. 6").— 

 Information is given with regard to the routes Into the Belgian K.'n^.i. means 

 of access, and the cosl of transportation of agricultural produ< 



The Colonial Congress of Agriculture at Paris, 1918, G. RsGKLSPl son 

 (Rev. Qen, Sot., 89 {1918), No. 15-16, pp. 475-480).— This article reviews the 

 reports of some of the important lines of agricultural investigation made at 

 the colonial Congress of Agriculture held in Paris. May 21 to 25, 1918. 



The rural church serving the community. B. L. Eakp (.Vnr York: The 

 Ibingdon Press, 1918. pp. 144). — The book offers specific suggestions for making 

 a social survey of a rural church community, contains an analysis of the social- 

 center parish plan, and emphasizes the need for cooperation between spheres of 

 influence and between denominations, or for consent to the survival of the 

 church fittest to work on a community basis. The author calls attention to the 

 need for cooperative denominational overhead intervention in definite rural 

 programs, outlines the training of rural ministers, discusses the local institu- 

 tions that are responsible as parts of the rural social machinery, and con- 

 cludes with a summary of what has been achieved and what should be stressed 

 in the next decade. A bibliography is appended. 



Juvenile delinquency in rural New York, Kate H. Claghobn (U. 8. Drpt. 

 Labor, Children's Bur. Puh. 32 (1918), pp. t97).— This study was made of the 

 amount, nature, and proportion of various classes of delinquency in 21 rural 

 communities of the State, emphasizing mainly the investigation of community 

 surroundings, home influences, and methods of treatment of the juvenile de- 

 linquents. Recommendations are made for treatment and prevention. 



Recommendations for treatment include taking oases of Juvenile delinquents 

 out of the hands of local justices and putting them in the charge of a division 

 of the juvenile court working on a circuit or giving them over to referees ap- 



