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corded. This is a second edition of an earlier work, to which chapters hare 

 been added giving the author's views as to reconstruction after the war. 



Introductory manual for the study and reading of agrarian history, W. 

 Tbimble {Fargo, N. Dak,: Author, 1917, pp. 47). — A list of references on and 

 suggestions for the study of ancient and modern agriculture, the agriculture 

 of the principal foreign countries and the United States, and various phases of 

 agriculture. 



International yearbook of agricultural legislation {Inst. Intermit. Agr. 

 [Rome], Ann. Internal L6g. Agr., 7 (1017), pp. LXXIY+1220).— This yearbook 

 supplements information previously noted (E. S. R.. 38, p. 493), adding laws 

 and decrees of 1017. 



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

 ference of the agricultural commission of the American Bankers' Associa- 

 tion and the agricultural committees of the State Bankers' Associations, 

 Washington, D. C, February 26, 1919 (U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Off. Sec. Circ, 131 

 (1919), pp. 11). — This address discusses the wide scope of the Government's 

 work for agriculture, the interest taken in agriculture by bankers of the country, 

 the aid furnished by farmers in winning the war, and measures necessary for 

 the improvement of agriculture. Including hastening the process from tenancy 

 to ownership, Government assurance of the wheat price guaranty, good-road 

 building, and others. 



Cooperative plan of national rural research, C. J. Gat.pfn et al. (Amer. 

 Jour. Sociol., 24 (1918), No. 3, pp. 308-310).— In this article the committee on 

 standardization appointed by an Informal conference at the time of the annual 

 meeting of the American Sociological Socieiy in Philadelphia in 1917 presents 

 definitions of terms to be used and outlines a national program of rural research. 

 Suggestions are made for the scope and method of study of two standardized 

 general problems, determining and analyzing the population group which ap- 

 proximates the community in agricultural sections, and an investigation of the 

 social aspects of tenancy, with special reference to advantageous and detri- 

 mental conditions growing out of this form of landhoidlng rather than out of 

 farm life in general. Recommendations for making a State wide director}- of 

 rural organizations and a map of all high-school districts in the State, and for 

 codifying State laws relating to the social welfare of farm population and vil- 

 lage population, are Included. 



Keport of committee appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to con- 

 sider plan of organization, scope of work, and projects for the Office of 

 Farm Management, and methods of procedure in making cost of production 

 studies, G. P. Wasbdt, A. Boss, H. C. Taylor, J. A. Foobd, J. I. Falcon kk, 

 R. L. Adams, and G. I. Ciiristik (17. S. Deft. Anr.. Off. Sec. Circ. 132 (1919), 

 pp. 15). — Research projects for the attention of a proposed Bureau of Farm 

 Management and Farm Economics are outlined here, under heads of cost of 

 production, farm organization, farm finance, farm labor, agricultural history 

 and geography, land utilization, and farm life studies. There are Included ex- 

 planatory notes on methods of investigation, items to be considered, and inter- 

 pretation of results of COSt-of-production studies. 



Rural organization, R. G. Gobdova {Rev. Agr. Puerto Ricn. 2 [1919). Not. 2, 

 pp. 1-9; 8, pp. 6-19). — A plan of rural organization to benefit small agricul- 

 turists of Porto RiCO socially and economically is here outlined. 



Project for a national agricultural institute, F. CambO (Pm,j. Agr. \i Pccu- 

 ari*,, r, (1918), No. W69, pp. SO >.— This gives the text of a decree of July 



18, Rus, previously referred to m:. s. k.. jo. p. 389). proposing the establish- 

 ment of the National Agricultural Institute in Spain and regulating and 

 trolling the granaries in the interest of extended rural credit. 



