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semination of market information, inspection of food products, and licensing 

 have proved valuable and will persist ; and that improvement in retail dis- 

 tribution will come about with education of the large numbers of merchants. 

 He endeavors to set forth simply and clearly the principles of future trading, 

 regulations of it under the Federal Food Control Act, and the efficiency of 

 the system in the distribution of farm products. 



The farm market (Philadelphia: The Curtis Pub. Co., 1918, pp. 68, figs, ftf).— 

 This is a brief summary of a study made "to visualize the market opportunity 

 in the farm field." It takes up the numerous determining factors in the new 

 Interrelationships between city and farm, hinging upon increased production 

 of farms and rise of new standards of earning and spending acquired by farm 

 families. The text is graphically illustrated. 



Monthly Crop Reporter ( U. S. Dept. Agr., 3/o. Crop Rptr., 5 (1919), No. S, 

 pp. 25-36). — This report, which gives the usual data relating to estimated farm 

 value of important products, February 15 and March 1, 1919, average of 

 prices received by producers of the United States, and range of prices of 

 agricultural products at Important markets, is concerned mainly with farm 

 stocks March 1, 1919, of the principal grains, by States, and the proportion of 

 each shipped out of the county where grown. It contains, also, the United 

 States crop summary for March; statistics of the total corn crop and the por- 

 tion merchantable, yearly, 1901 to 1918, inclusive; prices of articles bought 

 by farmers; aggregate crop acreages, by States, in L909, 1916, 1917, and 1918; 

 the principal crops of France, 1S15 to 1918; and the principal crops harvested 

 in Argentina in the years 1S91 to 1919, inclusive. 



Trends in agricultural statistical data; estimates of wheat held by Interior 

 mills and elevators on March 1 of live years, 1915 to 1919; and figures tor the 

 meat production, imports, exports, and consumption, 1!>00 to 1918, are shown. 

 Special articles are included on meat production in the United Slates during 

 19 years, beginning with T. »< »« » ; errors in crop reports; livestock changes 

 during January, 1900; the farm firewood crop, with estimates of consumption 

 of cord-wood, l>y Stales, in 1918; and farm land value. Other miscellaneous 

 data are recorded. 



[Field crop and live stock report of Canada for 1916], J. II. GBISDAXX {Can- 

 ada Expt. Forms Rpt8. l'Jll, pp. 9-11). — These pages indicate that the only 

 crops for which the yields equaled or exceeded tho6e of 1915 were hay and 

 clover, potatoes, and turnips. "The total value of all field crops grown in 

 Canada in 1916 is estimated at $808,054,000 as compared with $841,297,500, the 

 revised total for 1915. The total for 1918, although lower than that for 1915, 

 is greater than that for any other previous year." 



Tables are given to show a comparison of yields ami prices obtained for the 

 years 1915 and 1916, a comparison of eastern Canada, Prairie Provinces, and 

 British Columbia as to yields and prices obtained in 1915 and 1916, and the 

 number of various classes of live stock for the period 1912-1916. 



Sugar industry [in Cuba] (Sec. A;ir. Com. y Trah. [Cuba], Ofir. Estad.. 

 Indus. Azucarera, Mem. Zafra ReaUeada, 1916-17, pp. 257, figs. 16). — This gives 

 statistical information, by provinces, as to the condition of the sugar industry 

 in Cuba during certain periods of the years 1916 and 1917. 



Agricultural statistics of Argentina. 1916-17, K. LAHITTX (E*tadis. Apr. 

 [Argentina], 1916-17, ]>p. 230).— This statistical report continues, for the agri- 

 cultural year 1916-17, the one previous noted (B. S. R., .">."», p. B98). 



Three centuries of prices of wheat, flour, and bread. War prices and then- 

 causes, J. Kikki and (London: Author. 1911. pp. 63).— The author has compiled 

 tables of the prices of wheat. Hour, and bread through 317 years, from Itiou to 

 July, 1917, which he offers with notes explanatory of the sources of data and 



