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Social and civic work in country communities, Ellen B. McDoNAr.D, Ros v 

 M. Cheney, and G. F. Comings ([Wis. State Supt. Pub. Jtifitr.] Bui. 18 [1013), 

 pp. 138, figs. 20). — This bulletin is the report of a subcommittee appointed to 

 iuvestigiite conditions in the rural schools of Wisconsin and treats of the 

 relationships between the home, the school, and the community, and outlines 

 methods for making these relationships effective and helpful along the lines 

 of community improvement. 



Agricultural survey, 1913, F. O. Nunnick {Com. Consew. Vanada Rpt., 5 

 (lOlJf), pp. l42~17Jf, pis. 4). — The committee on lands of the Canadian Commis- 

 sion on Conservation conducted agricultural-survey work in 20 districts in 

 Canada and noting the crops grown, rotations followed, seed selection, manures 

 used, insect and plant diseases, fuel, power and water supjily, antl live stock 

 and labor conditions. These pages give the details by districts. 



Full report of the Royal Commission on Agriculture {Btit. Columbia Rpt. 

 Roy. Com. Acjr., 191/,, pp. IX+39S, figs. S).— Part 1 of this report discusses 

 conditions in British Columbia as they relate to the public and private lands, 

 land and public improvements, taxation, labor, agricultural credit, marketing 

 and cooperation, and agricultural education, and contains a summary of the 

 hearings held by the commission in various points in the Province. Part 2 

 describes the agricultural conditions and types of farming in British Columbia 

 and cooperation and agricultural credit in European and other countries. 



Annual report on the working of cooperative societies in the Bombay 

 Presidency, 1914 (Ann. Rpt. W07'Jc. Coop. Soc. Bombay Pres., 1913-lJi, pp. 

 II+78-\-3). — ^This report reviews the progress made and outlines the working 

 of the central societies and unions of the agricultural and nonagricultural 

 societies and other forms of cooperation in the Bombay Presidency. Statistical 

 tables are given showing membership, receipts and disbursements, assets and 

 liabilities, and profit and loss of individual societies. 



The farmers' elevator movement, I, II, O. N. Refsell (Jour. Polit. Econ.. 

 22 (1914), Nos. 9, pp. 812-895; 10, pp. 969-991)1— The author describes the 

 various methods of selling grain through elevators and track buyers, the 

 allegetl methods used by line elevator companies to drive the independent 

 farmers' elevators out of business, and the methods that have been devised 

 to meet their competition at Rockwell, Iowa. The farmers at this place formed 

 an elevator company, the by-laws of which contain a penalty clause which 

 provides that members are to pay into the treasury of the company * per cent 

 bushel for every bushel of grain sold either to the company or to its competitors. 

 By the means of this payment the company has been able to exist in spite of 

 all ontside competition. This system became somewhat of a model for other 

 farmers' elevator companies. Later, it is stated, boycotted commission firms, 

 because of the harmful effect produced on their business by the work of the 

 regular grain trade, began to cooperate actively with the farmers' elevator 

 companies to bring about a more rapid spread of the movement. State asso 

 ciations were formetl which accelerated the building of this kind of elevator and 

 gave additional strength to the individual company. The author points out 

 various methods said to have been used in attempting to force the new type of 

 company out of business. 



Farmers' market bulletin (Farmers^ Market Bui. [A\ C], 2 (115), No. 1. 

 pp. 26). — This is a continuation of the series previously mentioned (E. S. R.. 

 31, p. 894) and contains a partial list of merchants who purchase produce 

 outside of the State and the commodities handled by each, and a partial list 

 of farmers with farm products for sale indicating quantity and Kind. 



