294 BXPEEIMENT STATION EECOED. 



Retail public markets, G. V. Branch {U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 19U, pp. 

 161l-Wh pis. 4). — The author discusses the local needs and demands for mar- 

 kets, types, location, construction, financing, market regulations and manage- 

 ment, and news service of public markets, as factors which should be considered 

 in the establishment of such markets. He concludes that " while the municipal 

 retail market surely has its place in the present system of food distribution, 

 its introduction should be accompanied with even more mature judgment than 

 would attend the establishment of business institutions by private agencies, 

 for, in committing itself to the retail-market policy, a city is departing some- 

 what from the conservative path. The public market is not a panacea for the 

 weaknesses of the retail system, nor is it advocated that its use should dis- 

 place the old established agencies of retail marketing. Rather, its service 

 should supplement, cooperate 'with, and to some extent regulate that which 

 they give." 



Farmers' market hnlletin (North Carolina Sta. Farmers' Market BuL, 2 

 (191Jf), No. 2, pp. 31). — This bulletin outlines methods for marketing eggs 

 through creameries and for organizing to grade and market corn, and dis- 

 cusses the work of the state division of markets. It includes the test of the 

 act of 1915 to provide for the incorporation and maintenance of cooperative 

 organizations, and the usual list of products for sale. 



Cooperative marketing', and fi^nancing' of marketings associations, C. E. 

 Bassett, C. W. Moomaw, and W. H. Kerr ( U. 8. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1914, PP- 

 185-210, pi. 1). — This article points out the advantages of the cooperative mar- 

 keting of farm products, discusses the basic principles and conditions favoring 

 success, and describes some fonns of organization and different methods of 

 financing cooperative enteqirises. 



Departmental committee on ag'ricultural credit in Ireland (Dept. Agr. and 

 Tech. Instr. Ireland, Dept. Com. Agr. Credit Ireland, Minutes of Evidence, etc., 

 1912-13, pp. XIV-\-611). — This volume contains the minutes of the evidence 

 gathered in connection with the reiwrt previously noted (E. S. R., 32, p. 286). 

 [Transportation of agricultural products in France] (Bui. Mens. Off. Ren- 

 seig. Agr. [Parish, 13 (1914), Nos. 2, pp. 194-212; 3, pp. 300-329; 4, pp. 394- 

 406; 6, pp. 725-732). — These articles note the various means used in distributing 

 agricultural products in France, giving the tariff rates, quantities moved, time 

 in transit, and movement betv^-een distributing centers. 



Movement from city and town to farms, G. K. Holmes (U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Yearbook 1914, pp. 257-274). — The author points out, as the result of a ques- 

 tionnaire sent to about 45,000 crop correspondents, that there are five main 

 classes of people appearing in the movement from city and town to farms: 

 (1) Those who move to the country for the purpose of owning a farm on which 

 to live throughout the year and of devoting their entire time to agriculture, (2) 

 those who reside on the farm for the entire year but continue their former 

 occupation in a nearby city of town, (3) seasonal residents, (4) those who move 

 to the country to become farm tenants, and (5) those who seek temporary em- 

 ployment as farm laborers. The author considers that the movement consists 

 primarily of the first class, and points out that it is highly varied and covers a 

 wide range of quality, quantity, and efiiciency in the contributions. It is a 

 phenomenon of the denser iwpulations and is most evident in the North, east 

 of the Mississippi River, and is quite generally an accompaniment, if not a 

 consequent, of nearly urban conditions. 



The American farm woman as she sees herself, E. B. Mitchell ( U. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1914, pp- 311-318). — This article is a brief review of the 

 replies received to the Secretary's letter regarding the needs of the farm 

 woman, previously noted (E. S. R., 32, p. S90). The author summarizes these 



