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p. 689), taking up grain and live-stock cooperative enterprises in the North 

 and fruit and nut growers' associations on the Pacific const. 



The largest cooperative society for farmers (Country Life [London], .',) 

 (1918). Xo. 1130. pp. 375, 376). — This article gives the history, organization, 

 and benefits of the Eastern Counties Farmers' Cooperative Association of 

 Suffolk, England, with statistics showing the membership, acreage represented, 

 capital, sales, and net profit during 12 years, 1905 to 1917. 



The spread of cooperation in the Punjab, C. F. Strickland (Agr. Jour. 

 India, 13 (1918), Nos. 2, pp. 260-271; 4, pp. 671-681).— This article is devoted to 

 the discussion of early types of organization, legislation in encouragement of 

 agricultural cooperation, attitude of officials and public, financial control, and 

 thus of the evolution and prevailing type of the Punjab societies. 



The Australian Farmers' Federal Organization (Land [Sydney], 8 (1918 I, 

 No. -'(05, pp. 2, 3). — In this account are published the resolutions adopted at the 

 conference of October S, 1918, with notes of local meetings of the organization. 



Journal of proceedings of the National Grange of the Patrons of Hus- 

 bandry, fifty-second annual session, Syracuse, N. Y., 1918 (Jour. Proc. Net. 

 Grange, Patrons Hush., 52 (1918), pp. 192). — The reports and resolutions em- 

 bodied in these proceedings indicate the policy of the Grange in regard to farm 

 loans, the Farm Service Labor Bureau, agricultural reconstruction, taxation, 

 and related topics. 



Third annual report of the New Jersey State Department of Agriculture 

 (.V. ./. Dept. Agr. Bui 17 (1918), pp. 73-152, figs. 15).— In this bulletin are in- 

 cluded a report of the specialist in farm management regarding his work on 

 State institution farms, previously noted (E. S. li., 39, p. 89); a report on 

 projects concerned with organizing and assisting farmers' cooperative and 

 business associations as to city distribution, transportation, etc.; a summary 

 of market conditions by counties; a list of farmers' buying and selling agencies; 

 and a report of the statistical service on the value and accuracy of crop 

 estimate-. 



Government marketing of Australian wheat, A. M. Sakoi.ski [Atner. ECOH. 

 Rev., 8 (1918), No. '/. i'ii. 858-855). — This reports the methods of securing a 

 minimum price to the wheat growers "f Australia by the issuance of negotiable 

 scrip certificates on which Australian banks advanced about 80 <-ts. per bushel 

 to the farmers. The author states that the success of this socialistic plan 

 would no doubt be complete were it not for transportation and shipping diffi- 

 culties. He suggests that the producer will grow other crops rather than 

 submit t<> the pooling arrangemenl in the face of an enormous surplus. 



The farmers' elevator movement in Ohio, II. E. Ehdman (Ohio 8ta. But. 

 851 [1918), pp. 139-100. figs. 5). — This study, made in cooperation with the de- 

 partment of rural economics, Ohio State University, to ascertain the nature and 

 extent of the farmers' elevator movement in Ohio, was conducted by meai 

 personal visits and the use of a questionnaire. Tbe author gives, in this report 

 of the work, first a historical sketch of the movement, illustrating tbe location 

 of farmers' elevators established in Ohio in 1910 or earlier and in 1914 or 

 earlier, and those operating in May. 1!»i- 



The inquiry shows that the elevator companies are either corporations in 

 which most of the stock is owned by farmers who are interested as a business 

 venture or in marketing their own grain advantageously, or else they are coop- 

 erative companies marked by restricted ownership of capital stock, limited 

 voting privilege, and distribution of a patronage dividend. Thirty-nine of the 

 02 companies replying to the investigation indicated that they limited the num- 

 ber of shares to from one to five. Four of the same number reported the number 



