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sound cooperation law, and a cooperative land mortgage bank if he is to obtain 

 the credit that is due him. 



Agricultural credit in Ireland (Dcpt. Agr. and Tech. Instr. Ireland Jour., 

 H (IdUf), No. Jf, PI). 641-657). — This article gives an extensive review of the 

 report pi'oviously noted (E. S. 11.. 32. p. 2S6). 



A credit union primer, A. H. Ham and L. G. Robinson {New York, lOl-'t, 

 pp. Ill +19, figs. 10). — ^This pamphlet contains a large number of questions 

 relating to credit unions, together with answers, model book forms, organiza- 

 tion certificates, and by-laws, and the text of the New York credit union law. 



The cooperative people's bank, A. Desjardins {New York, 1914, PP- 42, 

 pi. 1). — The author calls attention to some of the characteristics that should be 

 fundamental to people's banks. He claims that these banks should be organized 

 to produce thrift among their constituents and not to make large profits, and 

 shows how the cooperative people's banks in various countries and especially 

 (he La Caisse Populaire have been organized with this idea in view. 



Inland boat service: Freight rates on farm products and time of transit 

 on inland waterways in the TJnited States, F. Andrews ( U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Bui. 14 {1914), PP- 36). — The purjiuse of this inquiry was to collect information 

 relative to freight rates and the time of transit of farm products carried on 

 the inland waterways of the United States. It discusses the advantages of rail 

 over river transportation and of river over rail, describes the terminals and 

 landings and a number of typical steamboat routes of the Atlantic coast, Mis- 

 sissippi Valley, and Pacific coast, and gives other data. 



The bulletin points out that the freight rates vary greatly in form, and most 

 of the traffic is local in nature. Some characteristics of steamboat freight 

 rates and the freight tariff zones are described. Tables are included showing 

 receipts of various farm products by water compared with total receipts at 

 selected cities, freight rates by boats on various farm products for September 

 and October, 1012, and comparison of freight rates by water and by rail over 

 selected routes for the same months. 



Census of the Union of South Africa, 1911 {Census Union So, Africa Rpt. 

 1911, pp. 189, pis. 3). — This report consists of a general summary, and data 

 relating to urban and rural population, live stock, agriculture, and special 

 industries. 



Agricultural statistics of Scotland {Agr. Stotis, Scotland, 2 {1913), pts. 1, 

 pp. 110: 2, pp. 113-186, fig. 1). — These X'eiwrts give for 1913, with comparative 

 data for earlier years, the acreage, average yield, and total production of farm 

 crops, the area devoted to different agricultural purposes, number of live stock, 

 and number of 'loldings by sizes. 



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Better rural schools, G. H. P.etts and O. E. Hall {Indianapolis, Ind., 1914, 

 pp. [20] +512, pis. 26, figs, i//).— In this book the authors discuss the demand 

 for better rural schools, the curriculum, teacher, consolidation and efliciency, 

 the administration of rural schools, and the outlook for rural etlucation. Each 

 chapter is followed by a series of questions for teachers' discussion and study 

 and almost one quarter of the chapters are given over to everyday problems 

 that concern the teacher in the schoolroom. 



In a chapter devoted to vocational education the authors hold that the rural 

 school should be made a vocational school, including in its curriculum practical 

 or applied instruction in agriculture and the industrial arts to afford the point 

 of contact between the school work and the home life interests and shai)e the 

 mode of approach to all other subjects of study. Two types of home-project 

 study, the progress of the agricultural club movement, and the influence of the 



