1919] RURAL Ri'oNOM |(S. 689 



fessional unions, cooperative associations, and mutual Insurance societies, are 

 considered In some detaiL 



Cooperation in Danish agriculture, 11. I-'aui.i: {.London and New York: 

 Longmans, Green & Co., t918, pp. \ ZlI-\-176). The editor endearors to adapt 

 to the needs of British agriculturists the description of certain phases of the 

 Danish cooperative system presented from the Danish viewpoinl In Andelsbe- 

 negelsen I Danmark, by II. Hertel. The activities described are the cooperative 

 distributive societies, dairy societies, slaughterhouses, the Danish Cooperative 

 Egg Export Society, butter exporl societies, breeding societies, control societies, 

 societies for purchase and sale, credit associations, the Danish Coopcrathe Hank 

 and cooperative village banks, Insurance societies, various cooperative under- 

 takings, and the central cooperative committee. 



Appendix l is concerned with the number and turnover In 1915 of Danish 

 cooperative societies connected with the central cooperative committee. In 

 Appendix 2 are Included tallies compiled and condensed from official statistics 

 and expressed in English weights and measures to show development in ben- 

 mark in matters of rural tenure, cultivation of crops, live stock, and import 

 and export of agricultural produce. 



An agricultural federation, G. Hammond (Proc. X. 7. State Fruit Growers' 

 Assoc, 11 (1918). pp. 101-105). — The speaker urges the organization Of farmers 

 for representation in investigations and adjustments of agricultural problems, 

 exemplifying with the case of the New York Federation of Agriculture organized 



to meet these needs. 



Directory of the agricultural and similar organizations of Massachusetts 

 ([Boston']: State Bd. Agr., 1918, pp. 11). — This publication includes the per- 

 sonnel of the State board of agriculture and of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, with the roll of agricultural societies, farmers' cooperative exchanges, 

 farm bureaus, county agricultural schools, and miscellaneous agricultural or- 

 ganizations in the State. 



The official organizations for aiding agriculture, P. DUTBXOTH [Vie Agr. ct 

 if u rale, 8 (1918), Wo. 51. pp. [87-489). — A brief summary of the function of 

 certain French official bodies for agricultural aid. The objects included the In- 

 creasing of cultivated areas, encouraging the use of motor power in cultivation, 

 and maintaining B central office for distributing chemical fertilizers, an agricul- 

 tural labor bureau, an office of agricultural Information, and bureaus for agri- 

 cultural improvement and engineering and for the extension of agricultural 

 credit. 



Third and fourth annual report of the State of Idaho department of farm 

 markets, 1917-1918 (Dept. Farm Markets Idaho Ann. Rpt., 8-4 {1911-18), pp. 

 16). — This records further activities along the lines previously noted (E. S. K., 

 88, p. -\)'A), with notes on the resources and development of Idaho by counties; 

 statistical tables of data regarding acreage, yields, sales of principal crops, and 

 number <>f live stuck for liMT and 1918, compiled from reports of countj asses- 

 sors; and the text of laws governing the farm markets department as amended 

 and passed by 'the fourteenth session of the Idaho Legislature, 1917. 



Report of the activities of the office of farm markets {Wash. State Off. 

 Farm Markets liitl. ..' (1918), pp. •>'/■ figs. 17). — This gives an account of mar- 

 keting activities from July l, r.»i7. to November 1, L918, including a survey of 

 farmers' cooperative organizations in the state, standardization and grading, 

 dissemination of marketing Information, and adjustment of disputes between 

 buyers and sellers of farm produce, also statistics and graphical presentations 

 of monthly cold-storage holdings of certain food commodities from November, 

 191G, to October, 1918, inclusive. 



