1919] RURAL ECONOMICS. 591 



teatB, which it is thought WlU insure to France realization of the possibilities 

 of assistance from her colonial possessions. 



A selected list of references on the reconstruction and reeducation of dis- 

 abled soldiers and sailors (BotUm /'»'<. Libr. Brie) l'< adinff f.ixtx. No, .', ( t'.HS), 

 pp. 22). — This list contains a few references on the subject of agricultural re- 

 education and the return of disabled soldiers and sailors to the land 



[Forms for returning soldiers] (17. 8. I)ei>t. Int.. Ann. Rpt, Sec., 1918, pp. 

 l'.~2l). — This presents recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior for 

 Government Improvement of arid, swamp, and cut-over timber lands, with the 

 end iii view of making them available to returning soldiers. 



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

 settlement {Berkeley, Gal.: State Land Settlement Bd., 1918, pp. 7. pi. 1, figs. 

 j i.- Information similar to that previously noted (E. S. It., 40, p. 3S9) is given 

 lor areas later thrown open t" inspection. 



[Meeting farm labor demands] (U. S. Dcpt. Labor, Ann. Rpt. See., 6 (1918), 

 pp. 203-2 /.}). — These pages contain reports of the efforts of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Labor toward meeting agricultural labor requirements in the grain 

 belt and outside and in cooperation with the Canadian Government, sending 

 wheat harvesters into Manitoba and Saskatchewan in exchange for extra 

 workers for the potato crop and lumbering operations in Aroostook County, Me. 

 Hearts of the work of the Boy's Working Reserve and Farm Service Division 

 are also given. 



Wages Board Gazette (Wages Bd. Gaz., 1 (1918). Nos. 1, pp. 1-16; 2, pp. 

 17-38; 8, pp. 29-U; 4, PP- 45-56; 6, pp. 69-84; 7, pp. 85-92).— The first of these 

 papers contains a summary of the first eight months' work of the Wages Board 

 of Great Britain. The others are given to minutes of the meetings of the 

 Agricultural Wages Board, agricultural club notes, official notices, current 

 scale of minimum-wage rate in force, etc. 



New York State Boys' Working Reserve, H. D. Sayek (N. T. State Food 

 Com. Circ. 1 (1918), pp. 8). — The purpose of this circular is to show the co- 

 operation of the county farm bureaus, the State Department of Education and 

 the public school system, and the State Public Employment Bureau in the 

 Boys' Working Reserve organization and to outline the method of procedure 

 in using the latter. 



Children in agriculture, IL McIntiue (Nat. Child Labor Committee Pamphlet 

 284 (1918), pp. 16, figs. 11). — This pamphlet reports child labor investigations 

 made by the National Child Labor Committee in the beet raising localities of 

 Colorado in 1915, in seven rural counties of Kentucky, in " shade-grown " 

 tobacco fields of Connecticut In August, 1917, and in Oklahoma. In these 

 districts nonattendance at school and retardation in studies are general and 

 largely due to demands of farm work and house work. The author points 

 out the economic fallacy of the faulty organization of the schools, which is in 

 many instances an explanation of the situation. 



[Cooperative production], E. P. IIakius kt al. (In Cooperation the Hope of 

 the Consumer. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1918, pp. 257-263). — The author 

 devotes this chapter to the discussion of principles underlying growers' and 

 shippers' organizations and the advantages of cooperation among producers 

 in insuring to customers uniform quality and standard grading, achieving a 

 wider distribution of products, etc 



Cooperation in the New World, L. Smith-Gordon (Better Business, 2 (1917), 

 No. 2, pp. 163-178; 3 (1918), Nos. S. pp. 204-821; 4. PP. 321-336; 4 (1918), X>. 

 1, pp. 1-19). — The author continues the account previously noted (E. S. EL, 36, 



