796 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED, 



reserve funds, etc. It is said that the significance of these agricultural cooper- 

 ative unions in Germany " lies in their successful advocation of honest business 

 dealing, in their insistence on cash payments and on economy in operating ex- 

 penses, in their struggle against usury and deception, in the business and moral 

 training which they give to the lower and middle classes, and in the happy 

 combination of progressive principles and brotherly feeling which they stimu- 

 late." 



Notes on the marketing' of vegetables and fruits in Holland, particularly 

 in Westland, [and] on the truck-gardening association of Tourlaville (Min. 

 Int. et Agr. [Brussels], Off. Rural. Avis aux Cult., 2. ser., 1910, No. 5, vp. Jt5, 

 pis. 9). — Methods of marketing fruits and vegetables, transportation facilities 

 and freight rates to England, and the organization and work of the Tourlaville 

 truck-gardening association are described in this bulletin. 



[Agricultural credit in the provinces of Marches and Umbria] (Bol. Min. 

 Agr., Indus, c Com. [Rome], 9 {1910), Ser. A, No. 1, pp. 13-22). — The regula- 

 tions for carrying out the law of January 2. 1910 (E. S. R., 22. p. 795), pro- 

 moting the development of agricultural credit in Marches and Umbria, are 

 reported. 



Native societies for providing- grain and credit in French West Africa 

 (Quinz. Colon., 14 (1910), No. 13, pp. 469, Jp'O). — An account of the means em- 

 ployed for encouraging the development of native mutual credit societies. The 

 purposes of such societies are to provide for seed grains at the proper times of 

 planting, to purchase necessary implements, to aid members in sickness and 

 cases of accident, and to guard against the efCocts of droughts, floods, diseases, 

 and other natural risks. 



The mutual insurance of live stock (Jour. Bd. Agr. Brit. Guiana, 3 {1910), 

 No. J/, pp. 192-194). — A discussion of the princii)les and methods under which 

 mutual live stock insurance societies are org.Muized and conducted. 



How can a live-stock insurance society be established and managed? 

 C. Weilanut {Arch. Dcut. Landw. Rats, 34 {1910), pp. 719-S02, figs. .'/).— This 

 paper discusses the economic significance of live-stock insurance, forms of or- 

 ganization, different kinds of insurance, propositions and preparations for the 

 establishment of societies, pi-emiunis, reserve funds, by-laws and regulations, 

 registering the stock, bookkeeping, annual reports and accountings, and other 

 data relating to the organization and work of such societies. 



Crop Reporter {U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Statis. Crop Reporter, 12 {1910), No. 

 9, pp. 65-72). — Statistics on the condition and acreage of crops in the United 

 States and foreign countries, the farm values and range of prices of agricultural 

 products, and monthly receipts of eggs and poultry in the leading markets of the 

 United States are presented and discussed. 



AGRICULTITRAI. EDUCATION. 



Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference for Education in the South 

 {Proc. CoHj. Ed. South, 13 {1910), pp. 352).— At the Thirteenth Conference on 

 Educjitlon in the South, held in Little Rock, Ark., Ai)rll G-8, 1910. the papers 

 presented included the following: 



The adjustment of the rural school to the conditions of rural life as ob- 

 served in the rural schools of Page County, Iowa, J. Y. Joyner (pp. 69-76). — 

 The author of this paper emphasizes the following points: (1) Real rural schools 

 are not city schools in the country, (2) children taught through school agriculture 

 are educated toward the farm instead of away from it, (3) such teaching can be 

 done by teachers who have had no special agricultural ti'aining. (4) its success 

 depends upon adequate, trained, experienced s\ipervision with power for leader- 



