292 EXPEEIMENT STATION RECORD. 



small holder, and the Hues along wliicli agricultural credit can be developed 

 in the future. The latter includes the extension of long-time credit to the 

 small holder on the basis of individual responsibility. Data regarding agri- 

 cultural credit in France at the close of 1909 are as follows : District banks 

 number 96 with 3,127 affiliated local banks having 147.140 members, and loans 

 were made during the year of 115.000.000 francs. These are substantial gains 

 over 190S (E. S. R.. 22. p. 194). 



Long-term individual credit for farmers (Bill. Mens. Off. Renscig. Agr. 

 [Paris]. 9 ilOlO). Xo. S. pp. 213, 21-'i; Jour. Agr. Prat., n. ser., 19 (1910), Xo. 

 12, p. 362: Prog. Agr. ct Tit. (Ed. VEst-Centrc), 31 (1910), So. 15, pp. J,o>i, 

 ^.5J>. — The text of the law of March 19. 1910. which extends the privilege of 

 long-term loans to farmers for facilitating the acquisition, partition, improve- 

 ment, and reconstruction of small proprietary holdings in France on the basis 

 of individual responsibility, is reported. 



Long-term individual credit for farmers, G. Becci (Bui. Soc. Agr. France. 

 1910. Apr. 15, Sup., pp. 200-202). — The provisions of the above law are sum- 

 marized and discussed. Although recognizing the imi>ortance of legislation 

 which seeks to increase the number of small rural owners, who are consid- 

 ered essential to national prosi^erity. the author raises the objections that the 

 law has a tendency to interfere with the free operation of economic forces 

 and does not in itself make definite provision for determining the rate of 

 interest, the duration of loans, and the conditions of repayment. 



Long-term individual credit for farmers (Prog. Agr. ct Vit. (Ed. I'Est- 

 Centre). 31 (1910), Xo. 17. pp. 51.i-516). — This is a govemment decree, made 

 March 26, 1910, providing for carrying out the law relating to long-term loans 

 to farmers. The decree meets the last objection raised by Count G. Becci 

 noted above. 



The law of April 5. 1910. concerning the pensioning of workmen and 

 peasants (Bui. Hens. Off'. Renscig. Agr. [Paris]. 9 (1910). Xo. .',. pp. 3-',9-363; 

 Bui. Soc. Agr. France. 1910. Apr. 15, pp. J,31--',50).— The text of the French law, 

 which includes the different classes engaged in agriculture, is reported. 



The pensioning of workmen and peasants (Scmainc Agr. [Paris], 29 (1910), 

 Xo. 1501, pp. 121-123). — The provisions of the above law which I'elate to the 

 Insuring and pensioning of the different classes of workers engaged in agricul- 

 ture are here summarized and discussed. 



Agricultural products shipped into Colorado in 1909, H. M. Cottrell 

 i Colorado Sta. Bill. 153. pp. 'i-2-'f). — Estimates bnsed on information secured 

 from leliable sources show that the value of meat and meat products, dairy and 

 poultry products, cereals and breadstuffs. hay. seeds, fruits, and miscellaneous 

 food accessories shipped into the State in 1!X»9 was .S.32.616.140. The data are 

 presented with a view of showing that '" nearly every agricultural product shipiied 

 into Colorado could have been more easily produced in the State, at a greater 

 Iirofit, and under conditions more enjoyable for the producer than in the sec- 

 tions where it originated." and emphasize the opportimities the State offers 

 in the various branches of agriculture. 



Agriculture in the State of New York i Bradstrecfs. 38 (1910), Xo. 1661. 

 p. 2S6). — A discussion of the lack of farm labor, of possible means of supply- 

 ing it, and of the advisability of changing the size of farms and farming meth- 

 ods to meet existing labor conditions is given. 



The increased yield per acre of wheat in England considered in relation to 

 the reduction of the area, H. D. Vigor (Jour. Roy. Statis. Soc, 73 (1910), No. 

 ■i. pp. 396-'iOS, dgm. 1). — "The aim of the present note is to investigate the 

 change in the yield of the wheat crop during the period from 1S85 onward, for 

 which official returns of the production per acre in England are available, and 



