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be used In rigging up such a stacker. The cost of repairs, Interest on invest 

 incut, anil replacement charges on stackers depend upon the amount of hay 

 handled per year; the more hay handled per year the less the amount of th 

 charges per ton. A stacker will last from 10 to 12 years under ordinary con- 

 ditions. The charges for stackers on 27 farms In central Kansas, which 

 stacked an average of only 144 tons of hay per year, amounted to less than 

 7 cts. per ton when the yield was 1 ton per acre. The charges on 32 farms 

 In central Nebraska, when twice this amount or 300 tons of hay were Btacked 

 per year, amounted to 3 cts. per ton with a yield of 1 ton per acre." 



Simple water systems, O. K. Robey (Michigan Sta. Quart. Bui., 1 (1918), 

 No. 2, pp. 69, 70, figs. 2). — A hot and cold water system for farm kitchens sui>- 

 plied by a hand-force pump is described and illustrated. 



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Address of D. F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, before the Trans- 

 Mississippi Readjustment Congress, Omaha, Nebr., February 20, 1919 

 (U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Off. Sec. Circ. 130 (1919), pp. 19).— This address deals with 

 the necessity of certain economic and social reforms. Including rural school, 

 rural health, and better roads programs; proper Federal control of stockyards 

 and packing establishments; the assisting of tenants to become farm owners; 

 a Federal budget system ; and others to which the recent organization for win- 

 ning the war has given an impetus. 



Summary of the annual reports of the farm advisors of California for De- 

 cember 1, 1917, to December 1, 1918, B. H. Ckocheron {California Sta. Circ. 

 20S (1919), pp. 59. pi. 1). — This circular reports the success of campaigns for 

 increased pork production, for the growing of silo sorghum, fire protection for 

 grain fields and .mass ranges, better seed, and increase of wheat, also the 

 handling of farm labor needs, development of boys' agricultural clubs and of 

 the farm home departments of the farm bureaus, and miscellaneous results of 

 farm advisors' activities. Detailed reports from 35 counties having county 

 farm bureau organizations are included. 



Farming plans for 1919, C. Ousi.ey (College Station, Tex. E.vt. Scrv., Agr. 

 and Midi. Col.. 1919, pp. 8).— This analysis predicts high prices for meats and 

 fats, cheaper bread owing to a large prospective wheat crop, and a lower corn 

 acreage and yield than in 1918. The author advocates restraining the cotton 

 acreage by the production of food and feed supplies. 



A method of testing farms in the South for efficiency in management, 

 C. L. Goodrich (U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Off. Sec, 1919, pp. 40).— "This circular is in- 

 tended to present a met bod of testing farms for efficiency in management." 

 Some of the more important tests noted are "the production of family and 

 farm supplies, the yield per acre of crops, the production per bead of productive 

 live stock, the organization of the crop acreages, the adjustment between labor 

 requirements and labor supply, and secondary tests directly influencing the 

 main factors." The author illustrates the measurement of farms by these tests, 

 using data furnished by several farm management studies conducted in t lie 

 South, which have been previously noted i E. S. K.. 30, pp. 203. 294; 40, p. 2'J2). 



American Association for Agricultural Legislation: A description of the 

 association and a statement of its aims (Amer. A8SOC. Agr. Leg. [Pamphlet}, 

 [1918], pp. [?]).— "Tbe purpose of this association [E. s. R., 30. p. 10S] is to 

 Investigate conditions that seem to call for new <>r Improved legislation affecting 

 agricultural Interests and to promote by publicity and education such legisla- 

 tion as the results of the investigations indicate." 



