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:>.v_'i;, approximately 85 per cent of which was produced on the furm and con- 

 stituted an average of 18 per cent of the net Income on farms baying ii~>u acres 

 or more of crop land and 48 per cent of the net income of farms haying less 

 than 75 acres of crop land. Data in the second bulletin referred to indicate that 

 on 149 farms evenly distributed in Gaston County, N. C, Troup County, Ga., 

 and -McLennan County, Tex., the average family consumed food to the value of 

 $464, of which G9 per cent was produced on the farm. 



Data from Bulletin 602, previously noted (E. S. R., 38, p. 792), are given 

 to illustrate a similar relative importance of the value of products of home 

 gardens to town families. The size and plan of the home vegetable garden and 

 fruit garden tire discussed, and tables are given as to yields of garden vege- 

 tables; planting periods, width of row, and distance of plants In the row for 

 garden vegetables, and a suggested planting of vegetables for a farm family 

 of five adults or their equivalent in the middle cotton belt. 



The author makes suggestions for the production of farm supplies of cereals; 

 sirup and sugar; animal foods for the family, including milk, butter, and cot- 

 tage cheese, pork and pork products, chickens, and eggs; and of feed for the 

 family live stock. He apportions the following acreages, calculated on the 

 basis of average yields in the cotton States, for food and feed crops which will 

 be required to supply adequately a two-mule family farm with an average of 

 five adult persons or their equivalent: Garden 2 acres, corn with cowpeas 13$ 

 acres, sugar cane } acre, oats and oat hay 7i acres, soiling crops 2 acres, and 

 pasture 7 acres. Roughage for cows and work stock, cowpea or velvet bean 

 hay, and cotton seed for cows are taken as by-products or second crops. A 

 second crop may be grown on 7 of the 25} acres, and cowpeas or peanuts should 

 be planted between the corn rows. 



Relation of the Government to the marketing problem, B. T. Galloway 

 (Proc. 2. Pan Amir. Sri. Cony., 1915-16, vol. 3, pp. 50-55). — The data presented 

 have been previously noted from another publication (E. S. R., 35, p. 89). 



The economic bearing of future trading in agricultural commodities, H. C. 

 EMERY (Proc. 2. Pan Amer. Set. Cong., 1915-16, vol. 3, pp. 21-25).— The author 

 states that organized future trading in articles which naturally permit it, in 

 their relation to the whole mechanism of trade and credit by which agricultural 

 products are carried to all parts of the world from producer to consumer, in- 

 creases the possibilities for a prompt market for the producer under definitely 

 known conditions and a prompt service to the buyer, and that the gap between 

 the consumer's and the producer's prices (plus freight) is thereby reduced to a 

 minimum. 



Uniform grades and standard packages, C. T. More (Proc. 2. Pan Amer. Sci. 

 Coup., 1915-16, vol. 3, pp. 468-474)- — The benefits of these conditions are set 

 forth. 



Municipal terminal markets, C. C. Miller (Proc. 2. Pan Amer. Sci. Cong., 

 1915-16, vol. 3, pp. 720-729).— The author discusses the salutary influence of 

 proper wholesale markets on many pressing problems in this country, such as 

 encouragement to the farmer to increase his production, the reduction of food 

 prices, etc. He states that it is of far more importance that the farmer sell 

 his whole crop at moderate prices than to sell a part at high prices and the 

 remainder not at all, that the chief reason farming has not paid is the lack of 

 marketing facilities in the cities, that it has been proved that the establishment 

 of a large terminal market insures steady sales at moderate prices, and that 

 the quick returns of cash for goods consigned to the market stimulates produc- 

 tion. 



Monthly Crop Report ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rpt., 4 (1918), No. 11, pp. 

 138-144)- — In addition to the customary data on crop conditions, estimated 



