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The inclosures in England: An economic reconstruction, H. Bradley (Co- 

 lumbia Univ. Studies Hist., Econ., and Pub. Law, 80 (1918), Xo. 2. pp. 112. fig. 

 1). — In this study the author defends the thesis that the inclosure movement 

 in England was due to a necessity of restoring fertility to the laud and not to 

 a rise in the price of wool, and that the decline of the manorial common-field 

 system resulted from the impossibility of maintaining the productive capacity 

 of the land at a high enough standard to provide a living for tillers. 



The size of Maya farms, O. F. Cook (Jour. Wash. \< ad. SoL, 9 (1919), Xo. 

 1, pp. 11-14). — Disi tissing similarities between customs of assignment of land 

 in the ancient civilizations of Peru and Mexico, the author points out the mis- 

 conception which led to the translation by D. G. Brinton in The Maya Chroni- 

 cles of a sentence from Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, p. 130, to 

 indicate that a plat of ground 20 ft. square was assigned to a family. He shows 

 that Landa's account gives the area of Maya farms as 3.67 acres, while the 

 figures that Brinton would substitute establish their size at 2.3S acres. This 

 confirms rather than contradicts the earlier report, since they " may relate to 

 different districts where the sticks used in measuring the fields were not of the 

 same length." 



Central storage of harvests, M. II. Pobtevxn {Cotfipt. Rend. Acmd. Agr. 

 France, 4 (1918), Xo. 38, pp. V> i.— There is here presented a plan for 



central cooperative storage anil marketing. This urges the economy of build- 

 ing silos, granaries, ami sheds at convenient points in four districts to be 

 created in the devastated territory of northeastern France, from which points 

 harvests of each district might be handled. 



[Collectivism in agriculture] (In State Socialism, Pro awl Con, edited by 

 W. B. Walling and II. \v. Laipt.kr. New York: Henry Holt <£ Co.. J917, pp. 42- 

 59, 69-242). — The editors have broughl together, in the chapter on agricul- 

 tural banks, an extract from the report to the British Board of Agriculture ,, n 

 Agricultural Credit and Cooperation in Germany, by J. B. OahiU (E. s. H., 

 30, p. 295), a discussion of personal (short-term) credit, and pans of popular 

 and Official publications relating to the Federal farm loan system in this country. 

 Under the subject of Agriculture and the Conservation <»f Natural Resources 

 is contained a chapter on land reclamation, the information relating to the 

 United States being compiled from reports of the Secretary of the Interior 

 and of the Reclamation Service, that for France, India, and Egypt being taken 

 from Geological Survey publications and other official sources. This section 

 includes, also, notes on land tenure and colonization and State-aided land 

 settlement in the United States and several foreign countries; a chapter on 

 agricultural collectivism, which is concerned with Government operation of 

 creameries, elevators, and cold storage plants, particularly in Canada; a 

 discussion of cooperation and governmental aid for the advancement of agri- 

 cultural science in Germany; and selections from official sources setting forth 

 in detail the organization, expenditures, and activities of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. Compilations of data from similar sources are given relating 

 to State administration and control of forests, roads, fisheries, and water power. 

 Deep furrows, li. MoosHoi I ronto, Canada: George J. McLeod, ltd. 

 [1918], pp. 299). — This is a story of the organization of the Grain Growers' 

 Grain Company and of affiliated organizations, showing the way in which the 

 farmers of western Canada have achieved success in cooperation. 



Syndical and mutual association and cooperation in agricultural organi- 

 zation in Belgium, J. Wathklet (Egypte Contemporaine, Xo. 41 a'.>is\. pp. 

 485-503). — This article is a description of Belgian associations, agricultural 

 and other, official and voluntary. The organization, function, and importance 

 to Belgian agriculture of the voluntary agricultural societies, classified as pro- 



