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Prom September 1 to November l, when the greater part of the harvesting is 

 accomplished, about 42 days are available for field work and In November are 

 20 more available days." 



Fourteen tables (bowing labor requirments per acre for various crops and 

 three summary tables, two of which comprise the man-labor and bO KOl abot 

 requirements, respectively, of farm crops by periods and one the man and 

 horse labor requirements in live-stock enterprises, are given. 



Farm allotments and farm laborers' allotments in the Durham State land 

 settlement (Iierkeley, Cal.: State Land Settlement Bd., 1918, pp. 10, pi. 1). — 

 This offers information regarding soil, water supply, improvements, prices of 

 land and terms of payment, capital necessary, general requirements of the 

 land settlement act, etc., with reference to the Durham State land settlement, 

 Durham, Butte County, Cal. 



When they come home, F. K. Lane {Nation's Business, 6 (1018), No. 9, pp. 

 22, 23. fig. 1). — This article discusses the plan to absorb labor released by dis- 

 banded armies and dislocated war workers through the development of arid 

 lands, especially in the Colorado Basin, the drainage of the Mississippi Delta, 

 and the reclamation of cut-over pine lands in the South. 



City troops take a food salient, E. V. Wilcox (Nation's Business, 6 (1918). 

 No. 10. pp. 16, 11, 38, figs. 2).— It is estimated that 500,000 persons responded In 

 1918 to the plan of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for city men to volun- 

 teer as harvest hands. The movement is said to have solved the labor problem 

 in many cases and to have established a better understanding between the 

 farmer and the city man. The Department is endeavoring to make this im- 

 provement permanent through the development of organization, cooperation, 

 and community interest. 



Proceedings of the eighty-sixth annual meeting of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society (N. Y. Dcpt. Farms and Markets, Die. Agr. Bui. WS 

 (1918), pp. 227, pis. 32). — The program of this meeting included addresses on 

 some defects in the New York laws as to cooperative associations, a report of 

 the Million Acre Wheat Committee, and a statement of the Patriotic Farmers' 

 Fund, which has made short-term loans to farmers and from which was planned 

 to make loans for the purchase of sheep and swine. 



A credit statement for short-term farm loans, J. I. Falconer (Agr. CoL 

 Ext. Circ. [Ohio State Univ.], 4 (1918), No. 82, pp. 4).— This is a blank for an 

 agricultural credit statement and a detailed statement and business record. 



The cattle-loan company, F. M. Labmer (Jour. Polit. Eeon., 26 (1918), No. 

 8, pp. 807-83t). — The points developed in this treatise are types and location 

 of cattle-loan companies, types of cattle loans, the credit analysis made by the 

 cattle-loan company, the marketing of cattle paper, the correlation of cattle- 

 loan companies and allied banks, the economic services of cattle-loan companies, 

 and the future of cattle-loan companies. 



Agricultural credit in Spain ( U. S. Dept. Com.. Com. Rpts.. No. 264 (1918), 

 pp. 555—559). — This article reviews briefly the function of the " p6sitos." or 

 granaries, and gives the text of the proposed law for the reorganization of 

 agricultural credit. 



Agricultural cooperation and the collective rent system in Italy, P. Du- 

 mont (Vie Agr. et Ruralc, 8 (1918), No. 41, pp. 261-264).— This article is an ac- 

 count of two principal types of collective holdings in Italy, those under a cen- 

 tral management and those divided into small individual holdings, as well as of 

 the details of organization of agricultural cooperative societies. A representa- 

 tive balance sheet of one of the improvements under this system in Parma for 

 1917 is given. The methods of cultivation described have effected higher 



