694 



EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



fiuaucial returus to both parties and the improveineut of the land. The tiuau- 

 cial returns for 1909 were as follows: 



Returns of a 280-acre farm in 1909 under tenant occupancy. 



From the tenant's share must be deducted the sum of $750 paid for hired 

 labor, giving a net income to the tenant for the year of $2,942.23. 



The gross farm returus show an average return of $21.73 per acre for the 

 entire farm, Including several acres of land about the house and barns and along 

 the roadsides that grew no crop and every foot and corner that failed wholly 

 or In part for any reason. The farm is devoted to live stock, cereals, and hay 

 production, and the system of farm management under tenant occupancy and 

 its benefits in increasing crop yields and maintaining soil fertility are described 

 in detail. 



The agricultural labor problem, Vogt {Wiirttcmb. Wchnbl. Laiidic, 1910, 

 No. 2Ji, pp. 393-396). — The author traces the development of the agricultural 

 labor problem in Germany since 1857, and shows that, notwithstanding the in- 

 crease of wages in all branches of field labor and farm domestic service which 

 makes the pay of farm hands better than that of industrial workers and of 

 other means emi)loyed to increase the number of laborers, there is great diffi- 

 culty in securing competent farm help at the present time. 



The author believes that one of the best means of encouraging the young to 

 remain on the land is to train them in self-reliance and to take an interest iu 

 their work. His own experience along these lines and its results are presented. 



Plan of obligatory mutual insurance against losses of live stock in Egypt, 

 J. IJ. PiOT Bey (Egijpte Conteinporaine, 1910, 7\o. 3, pp. 369-37o). — On account 

 of serious losses of live stock as a result of poisoning and contagious diseases,, 

 mutual compulsory insurance against loss is urged by the author, to be organ- 

 ized and directed by the government throughout Egypt. Such insurance it is 

 believed would add greatly to the mox'al and material progress of the Egyptian 

 small holder and to the economic welfare of the country as a whole. The text 

 of a proposed law for the organization, operation, and supervision of such in- 

 surance societies is included. 



The principal English markets, P. Lefebvre (Min. Int. et Agr. [Brussels], 

 Off. Rural, Avis aux Cult., 2. ser., 1910, Xo. .'/, pp. 75, pis. 8). — This is a descrip- 

 tion of the organization and selling methods of the London, Liverpool, Man- 

 chester, and Hull markets, with a list of the chief kinds of agricultural prod- 

 ucts sold thereon. The bulletin is issued for the purpose of indicating to 

 Belgian farmers the trade openings which England offers for the products of 

 their farms. 



Inventory of the statistics of agricultural products and farm animals^ 

 C. C. Clark ilnternat. Inst. Agr. [Italy], Bui. Agr. Statis., 1 (1910). No. 5, pp. 

 35-Jil). — Estimates of areas sown and condition of winter and spring cerea! crops 

 of 1909-10 in the chief cereal-producing countries of the world are reported. 



