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with winter forage for sheep. The winter forage is followed by spring cereals, 

 which, in turn, are intercropped with tares. In the third year the tares, which 

 are intercropped with winter forage, are grazed in the fall and in the spring, 

 and are cut for hay or silage during the summer. The winter forage provides 

 feed from October to March, when it is followed by spring cereals seeded with 

 grass and sainfoin. The first crop of grass and sainfoin is used for hay, and 

 the aftermath for silage. The following year the area is pastured, and the 

 rotation begun again. Modifications of this scheme to provide for the growing 

 of potatoes and root crops are outlined. A discussion of intensive methods of 

 milk and beef production from the consumption of the crops grown is included. 



Continuous cropping and tillage dairy farming for small farmers, T. Wih- 

 berley (London: 0. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., 1917, pp. 186, figs. 9). — Stating that 

 nest to intensive market gardening milk production is most profitable for the 

 small farmer, the author outlines a system of farm management deemed ap- 

 plicable to a holding of 20 acres and based upon his continuous cropping 

 system described above. 



Agriculture in Berkshire. J. Orr (Oxford. Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1918, pp. 

 X+208, pis. 19, figs. 11). — This is a study of Berkshire, England, similar to 

 that of Oxfordshire, previously noted (E. S. K., 37, p. 291). 



Production of food in Scotland. E. Wason et al. (Scot. Dept. Committee 

 on Food Prod. Iipt.. 3 (1911), pp. 8). — The committee here reports the action 

 taken by local organizations in regard to previous recommendations (E. S. R., 

 37, p. 890), and makes new ones regarding the Increase of arable land, the 

 extermination of pests, and labor and wage adjustments. 



[The economic effects of the war upon agricultural production], G. Renard 

 (In Les lie" pi missions Econoiniques <lr In Cm mi ActiteUe sur la France, Au- 

 gust 1, 191k-May 15. 1917. Paris: TAbr. /'</,> Alcan, 1911. pp. 319-319).— The 

 author, in these pages, traces the reactions of the state of war upon crop pro- 

 duction and live-stock raising in France. Figures are given for the period 

 1913-191G. showing decreases. He recounts efforts to organize farm 1 

 bureaus, the cooperation of military authorities In meeting the farm labor 

 Deed, and the availability of colonial and other Imported labor. He also dis- 

 cusses the impulse given by war conditions to motor cultivation, use of fer- 

 tilizers, conversion of idle land, and gardening, and in the last chapter noted 

 he deals with the classes found in rural populations and the means "f restoring 

 and improving the equipment and the living conditions, particularly of the 

 peasants. 



The economic future of Macedonia. H. Ilrnn: (Bui. Soc. Encour. Indus. 

 X'it. [Paris], ill {1918), II. Wo. 5. pp. 871-875).— General notes on the existing 

 agricultural status of the country and the possibility of its becoming a market 

 for French products are here recorded. 



Foodstuff production in Mauritius, II. Robert {Dept. Agr. Mauritius. Statis. 

 Ser., Bui. 3 (1918) [English Ed.], pp. 10, pi. 1).— This bulletin contains sta- 

 tistics on the production, consumption, and Importation of grain and the rela- 

 tion between values of rice and sugar in the colony since 189S. The data indi- 

 cate also the purchasing power of sugar in terms of rice, a factor which fur- 

 nishes an index to the serious economic depression of the community. This 

 condition is represented graphically in an annexed diagram. 



The role of our colonies after the war, E. Do Yivier DB Streel (Lc R6le do 

 Nos Colonies dans VApr&s-Cruerre. Paris: Augustin Challamel, 1916. pp. 38).-- 

 This discussion of the future of French colonial development Includes that of 

 the value of raw materials imported from the colonies and of the organization 

 of public utilities, native labor, agriculture, transudation, and financial sys- 



