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RURAL ECONOMICS. 



The rural-credits movement— danger of drifting. AT. T. Herkick (Kansas 

 City, Mo.: Missouri Batikerfi' Assoc, J!)J5, pp. 20).— The author criticises the 

 various bills bearing on rural credits that have been before Congress, and sug- 

 gests that the first legislative step should be to organize land credit by 

 requiring standard licenses and bonds of brokers and real estate agents, and 

 by amending and enacting laws relating to credit Institutions. Cooperative 

 credit is deemed a matter for the States and Territories. The new legislation 

 should legalize for cooperative associations everything that may now be done 

 by a corporation, but under such regulations and restrictions as would assure 

 safety for members and all who deal with them. The greatest care should be 

 exercised to estal)lish uniformity among the laws of the different States. 



A practical national marketing organization and rural credits system for 

 the United States {Washington: Govt., 1915, pp. i6).— In this hearing before 

 the State Department, there was pointed out the workings of the Landwirt- 

 schaftsrat, the German national marketing organization, and the Landschaft, 

 the German credit system, and the possibilities of their adaptation and adop- 

 tion in the United States. It was argued that by means of the former a more 

 equitable distribution of agricultural products could be obtained, through the 

 placing of the surplus crops in localities where they are needed at the least 

 possible cost ; by means of the latter the agricultural producer would have 

 cheap and efficient credit. 



Organization of cooperative marketing associations, F. C. Hakt {Ontario 

 Dept. Agr. Bui. 234 {1915), pp. ^,'?).— This bulletin is intended to give detailed 

 information as to the organization of cooperative marketing associations, and 

 outlines the procedure from the getting together of the prospective members 

 to the completion of the organization and the closing of the year's business. 



The agricultural bank, E. Feers {El banco Agrioola. Buenos Aires: P. 

 Gadola, 1915, pp. 92). — There is presented in this book the text of a proposed 

 bill for the establishment of an agricultural bank for Argentina, with a dis- 

 cussion concerning the difficulties of introducing agricultural credit, the neces- 

 sity for an educational propaganda, the relation of this bank to the existing 

 credit systems, and an outline of the organization of credit under the proposed 

 new system. 



Some experiences in farm accounting, Chaelotte P. Goddaed {Agr. of Mass. 

 62 {1914), pp. 124-I4I). — The author narrates how she was employed as a 

 cooperative bookkeeper by a number of farmers, outlines the system used, and 

 gives sample forms. 



Farm, accounts simplified, D. H. Otis {Neic York: Orange Judd Co., 1915, 

 pp. 42). — This book contains forms for keeping farm records, in which there is 

 an attempt to make the accounting simple by means of its mechanical arrange- 

 ment. 



The use of land in common in the Daun and Prum districts of Eifel, ]M. 

 Bkbtram {Landw. Jahrb., ^7 {1914), No. 2, pp. 153-237) .—This study of the 

 use of land in common indicates that forest land can be used in common to 

 advantage, and that a common pasture is feasible where there ai-e a number 

 of small farmers, but that the use of other land in common is not, as a rule, 

 satisfactory, either frorii a social or an agricultural point of view. A brief 

 bibliography is included. 



Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts, H. B. Bashoke 

 {New York: John Wiley rf Son^, Inc., 1915, pp. 92, pis. 15).— The author illus- 

 trates bad housing conditions as found in rural districts by calling attention 



