EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



791 



RURAL ECONOMICS. 



Farm costs on the Colorado Agricultural College farm, A. Keysfr (Colorado 

 Sta. Bui. 20.i (im.'i), pp. .i-.')l!, /iij. 1). — Tliis report outlines the system of cost 

 accounting estal)lished for tlio college farm, and reports data as to the cost of 

 farm machinery and of man and horse labor for a series of years in growing 

 and harvesting various crops, and of the drayage, livery, carpenter worlc, and 

 miscellaneous services rendered to the different departments by the college farm 

 force !is a service bureau. 



Land tenure, O. R. Johnson and AV. E. Foard {Missouri Sta. Bui. 121 (1014), 

 pp. 59-110, figs. 10). — This report presents the results of a farm management 

 survey in four townships of John-sou County. Mo., from the staiidijoint of land 

 tenure. 



Some of the striking points noticed were that in this locality the tenant grew 

 more grain crops and sells a larger proportion of those grown than did the 

 owner. He kept one animal unit for every 5* acres of ground, while the owner 

 had one animal unit for every 3J acres. The tenant farmed more land with a 

 given labor equipment. He got lower yields from grain crops and about the 

 same from hay crops. His labor income was .^.'jOI. as against $440 for the part 

 owner and $.''>14 for the owner, and his family living expenses were $354, as 

 compared with .$413 for the owner. With the same capital the tenant made the 

 largest labor income, the part owner ranked next, and the owner made the 

 smallest labor income. The tenant usually put in more hours labor than did the 

 owner and obtained a larger labor income for the same amount of work units. 



The data show that 43.5 per cent of the tenants remained on the same farm 

 two years or less. Nearly SO per cent of the tenants moved in less than five 

 years. Tenants living on the same farm from six to ten years made the largest 

 labor income. 



Farm owners with more than a rural school education made nearly $G0O more' 

 than those who stop with the rural school. The man with a higher education 

 apparently remained a tenant only from one-half to one- fourth as long before 

 becoming an owner as did those who stopped with the rural school. 



[Insanity among- farm people] (Bur. of the Census [U. 8.], Insane and 

 Fechlc-Mindcd lusts. 1910, pp. 1-119, figs. 10). — ^This report contains statistical 

 data showing by States and geographic divisions the number of insane in hos- 

 pitals and the number admitted in 1010. The following table shows admissions 

 in 1910 by sex and geographic divisions : 



Nuinhcr of insane admitted to hospitals in 1010 per 100,000 population. 



