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labor. Attention is called to the possible need of financing the farmer and con- 

 serving the labor supply. 



Mobilization for food production, E. Da%-enpoet (Urbana: Univ. III., lyit, 

 pp. Jt). — The author outlines a scheme to provide farm labor to increase the 

 food supply through the enlistment of certain groups of men and boys for f(X)d 

 production and their mobilization at training camp farms. He maintains that 

 limiting the food of the people is wholly unnecessary if reasonable attention is 

 given to the business of production and the present farm labor supply is ade- 

 quately increased. 



" Universal military service " for farmers, E. H. Jenkins {Connecticut 

 Sta. Bui. Inform. 7 (1917), pp. -i). — The author maintains that the place for 

 the farmer who has tillable land and expert knowledge and machinery to make 

 it produce food is not in the training camp but in the field. He considers it 

 better to fit and plant all of the land which it seems possible to handle, ^\^th 

 the present expectation of summer help, at a risk of loss of part of the crop, 

 rather than through fear to plant only that which there is a certainty to be 

 harvested. 



The redistribution of the labor now employed in producing war supplies, 

 H. H. Lund (Amer. Econ. Rev., 7 (1917), Xo. 1, Sup., pp. 23S-250).— The author 

 describes the methods used and results obtained by the Forward-to-the-Land 

 League in placing city men on farms. 



The land problem and rural welfare, P. L. Vogt (Amer. Econ. Rev., 7 

 (1917), No. 1. Sup., pp. 91-101). — "The most hopeful solution appears to be the 

 control of tenantry through the exercise of the taxing power. If the tax were 

 so adjustetl as to give a strong inducement to the prospective absentee landlord 

 to dispose of his land to the prospective tenant, much of the speculative holding 

 of land would be quickly eliminated and prices of land to prospective purchasers 

 would much more nearly equal their productive value. The inducement to 

 transfer investment from land to other forms of property would work no great 

 hardship to the owner, because under the rural credit law land mortgage bonds 

 would be available as well as other types of securities the absentee ownership 

 of which does not bring such serious difficulties in business management as 

 does the absentee ownership of land." 



Two dimensions of productivity, H. C. Taylor (Amer. Econ. Rev., 7 (1917), 

 No. 1, Sup., pp. Jf9-57). — The author discusses the significance of capacity and 

 efficiency as they relate to productivity, and the problem of land ownership on 

 the part of the farmer. He illustrates his discu.«:sions by making compari.sons of 

 the results obtained by a study of 51 farms in Barron County, Wis., and the 

 efficiency and capacity of a number of cows where detailed records have been 

 kept. 



Agriculture and the farming business. O. H. Benson and G. H. Beits (In- 

 dianapolis: The Bobba-Mcrrill Co., 1917, pp. [16]+77S, figs. 263).— This book 

 attempts to bring together in one simple, nontechnical volume, the practical 

 scientific information relatetl directly to the every day problem of the farm and 

 home. Among the topics studied are the organization of farm business, meth- 

 ods of growing and harvesting crops, types of soil, live stock, the farm home 

 and its management, farm machinery, ami education for farm life. 



Profits in farming on irrigated areas in the Gallatin Valley, Mont., E. L. 

 Currier (Montana Sta. Bui. Ill (1916), pp. 52. fig. 2).— This bulletin gives the 

 results of a farm-management survey made during the summer of 1014. 



It was found that the average farm labor income on the farms studieil was 

 $555. As the amount of capital Increased, the labor income increased corre- 

 spondingly. Farms which had a large percentage of their capital tied up In 



