190 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



licenses, and the revenues. The total fines amounted to $101,364, and the gross 

 registration revenues to $12,270,035.78. 



Trial of machine plowing- in rice fields, A, Tarchetti {Gior. Bisicult., 4 

 (1914), Nos. 5, pp. 65-80; 7, pp. 103-107; 8, pp. 122-128; abs. in Internat. Inst. 

 Agr. \Rome\, Mo. Bui. Agr. Intel, and Plant Diseases, 5 {1914), No. 9, pp. 

 1207-1209). — Trials of mechanical cultivation in rice fields in which eight ma- 

 chines competed are reported. The machines included motor-hauled plows, 

 self-contained motor plows, cable-hauled plows, and rotary diggers. The aver- 

 age length of furrow was about 1,000 ft. and a plat of about 7^ acres was 

 assigned to each machine. Of the cable-drawn outfits, one with a 13-horsepower 

 oil motor and a two-wheeled windlass truck was given first place. Of the 

 direct traction outfits, one with a 24-horsepower motor was given first place. 



Manila-rope fastenings {Engin. Rec, 70 (1914), No. 26, p. 706, figs. 7).— 

 Tests to destruction of nine ordinary methods of fastening manila rope with 

 reference to tensile strength indicated that eye-splices are the most satis- 

 factory, considering the high strength they develop and their relative cost. 



RURAL ECONOMICS. 



Rural social problems, C. J. Galpin (Bui. TJniv. Wis. No. 711 (1914), pp. 51, 

 figs. 23). — ^This is the report of the fourth annual country-life conference of 

 Wisconsin and presents a digest of significant facts, methods, and enterprises 

 discussed. 



Country-life week (Ohio State Univ. Bui., 19 (1914), No. 3, pp. 5/).— The 

 addresses at this conference related to the shifting of the rural population, 

 relationship between the church and rural problems, and recreational and 

 social needs of rural communities. 



The church at the center, W. H. Wilson (New York: Missionary Education 

 Movement of the United States and Canada, 1914, PP- 98, pis. 4, figs- 2). — This 

 book outlines the function of the country church and indicates, by citing typical 

 instances, how the church has been used as a means of improving rural con- 

 ditions. 



The making of a country parish, H. S. Mills (New York: Missionary Edu- 

 cation Movement of the United States and Canada, 1914, PP- XVIII-\-126, pis. 

 4, fig. 1). — There is given in this book the history of the development of a 

 countiT parish at Benzonia, Mich. The organization as finally developed con- 

 sisted of a large, central congregation with a number of branches conveniently 

 located to the farm homes in other parts of the parish, but closely related to 

 the central congregation in all of their activities. 



Working and living conditions of women employed in agriculture, H. 

 Seitfeet, Elly zu Putlitz, and Priesteb (Schr. Ausseh. Ford. Arbeiterinnen- 

 Interessen, 1914, Nos. 4, pp. XII+355; 5, pp. 169; 6, pp. 2/5).— These reports 

 describe the conditions existing in Wurttemberg, Baden, Alsace-Lorraine, Rhine 

 " Pfalz," Mecklenburg, and Brandenburg among the native and foreign hired 

 women agricultural workers, and of the wives and daughters of the small 

 farmers. They note the influences of trade conditions and of the factory and 

 household industries, and the possibilities of bettering the condition of these 

 classes. 



Report on home industries in the highlands and islands (Rpt. Bd. Agr. 

 Scot., Home Indus. Highlands and Islands, 1914, pp. IX+207, pi. 1, figs. 12). — 

 This report shows the development of home industries beginning with the fif- 

 teenth and sixteenth centuries, describes the function of home work in connec- 

 tion with tweed manufacture, Shetland hosiery, lace making, wickerwork, 

 basket making, and kelj) gathering, and points out the function of the board of 



