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Rural administration and administrators, !•'. CoifVUT ( \»r Iffron . ',. 



scr., 7 (1918), No. 7-<), pp. ..•■ . The author outlines the functions of ad- 



ministrators on French estates, and urges their organization f<>r the study of 

 their problems and the furthering of t lni r int. r» Bts professionally. 



A review of the Prussian boards of agriculture, W 

 Landwirtachaftsrata, /<; (1918), No. it. pp. <).— This article reviews the 



establishment and developmenl of the Prussian boards of agriculture and their 

 functions and Importance during a quarter of a century. 



A proposal for a study of the potential productivity of Italian agriculture 

 and of the possibility of satisfying in the future the needs of the people, 

 G. Vaxf.NTI EI AL. (Puh. R. Arrtid. I. inert, Comitato Sri. Aliment. [JBOSM], A". 7 



(1919), pp. 7). — This is the outline submitted by a committee <>f Italian tden* 

 tists for increasing the food supply. It provides f<>r the administration <>f the 

 plan, and the publication of reports to be submitted with regard to special in- 

 quiries into the improvement of agriculture, collecting of agricultural st 

 tistics, etc. 



The encouragement of the Alp industry, one method of increasing the 

 stocks of our native animals, E. Oboix (Die Hebung dcr Alptoirtachaft, < m 

 Hittel zur Erlmltung und Mrhrung Unserer ffeimiiCJien Tierbeat&nde. Tfttvn- 

 stein: Verband fur Rcinzucht drs Pinzgauer Rindes in Oberbavern, 1911, pp. 

 67, pis. 10). — This article is descriptive of the live-stock industry in the 

 Bavarian Alps, its history, and suggested methods of developing it. Under 

 the last head are included forestry operations, road building, map mas 

 destruction of weeds and introduction of nutritive grasses, and the encoura 

 ment by the State of cooperative organization among those engaged in the 

 industry. 



The cheapest source of increased food supplies, E. G. NOXJKSX (Sci. Mo., 6 

 (1918), No. 2, pp. 116-123). — This article discusses the economy of following 

 specially adapted lines of farming on those areas having marginal productivity 

 as a result of poverty of soil, topography, or climate. Drought-resistant crops, 

 water-tolerant crops, and plants adapted to sandy and alkali Bolls and hill 

 lands are considered. 



The tariff union and agricultural policy, H. Kranold (Zollunion und Agrar- 

 politik. Dresden: " Globus," 1917, pp. \6]+lS5).— Tin- author has Btud 

 German demands for agricultural products and the extent t<> which they can 

 be supplied at home and from Austria-Hungary and the Balkan States. Be 

 considers the inclusion of these countries with Germany in a tarifT union and 

 concludes that no danger to German agriculture can arise from BUCh a policy. 

 He further maintains that tariffs on agricultural products, with the possible 

 exception of feed for live stock, together with certain Btate measures roch as 

 recolonization on small holdings, legislation again-' entail inherit: . will 



intensify German agriculture and make the nation solf-suthVi- 



The minimum wage as applied to agriculture. It. H. R*W (-lour. Fan 

 Cluh [London], t919, Feb., pp. 20).— An address on the subj< Pari II of 



the Corn Production Act, previously noted (B. 8. R., B8, p. 594), discussing its 

 application to agriculture. 



Women workers in agriculture. B. N. THOMAS (In Industni and Finance, 

 edited by A. 11'. Kirkaldy. London and Xnr York: Sir laaoi Pitman d Bona, 

 Ltd., 1917, pp. 11,6-159).— Th\* report, prepared for the section of i mic 

 science and statistics of the British Association, r - data relal the 



number of women employed on the land, describes two methods of train: 

 namely, apprenticeship and practice training under on of the 



Board of Agriculture, and briefly discusses training and w;._ 



