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the lai'ger crop yields possible. He advocates the erection in every town of a 

 storehouse for ground limestone and phosphate rock, to be kept on hand ready 

 for farmers to haul and apply whenever the conditions of the roads and fields 

 and farm labor permit. 



The high cost of low crop yields. — Intensive cultivation most profitable 

 on average farms, C. E. Thorne (Mo. Bui. Ohio Sta., 2 {1911), No. 6, pp. 181- 

 187). — Experiments using a 10-acre tract, fertilized, limed, and treated with 

 acid phosphate were compared with larger unfertilized tracts of a size to pro- 

 duce about the same yield. A regular rotation of corn, oats, wheat, and clover 

 was followed at Wooster, and one of corn, wheat, and clover at Germantown. 



The relative costs of producing the entire rotation were $613 and $1,095 for 

 the high and low-yielding tracts at Wooster, and of $271 and $396.10 for those 

 at Gei'mantown. It is concluded that " the intelligent use of fertilizer and 

 manure not only increases the yield of the land but also reduces both the labor 

 rost per unit of crop production and the cost of seed and rental." 



The net output from agriculture and its distribution, C. S. Orwin {Jour. 

 Bd. Agr. [London], 24 {1911), No. 2, pp. jf58-i« ) .—Tabulated results of sur- 

 veys of several farms indicate that the net output, the difference between cost 

 of production and value on the farm, is distributed to the farmer, laborer, and 

 landlord on the basis of 47.9, 29.9, and 22.2 per cent, respectively. Net returns, 

 however, after the farmer and landlord have deducted ordinary expenses, are 

 found to be distributed on the basis of 40.7, 39.5, and 19.8 per cent, respectively. 



Agriculture on Government reclamation projects, C. S. Scofiei.d and F. D. 

 Farrell {V. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1916, pp. 111-198, pis. 3).— The purpose 

 of this paper is " to discuss briefly a number of the industries that have been 

 or may become important on reclamation projects." 



The authors find that crop production on reclaimed land follows a " regular 

 sequence of development, beginning with the production of alfalfa and small 

 grains and gradually reaching a great diversity of crops and industries. 

 Finally, out of this diversity a few major industries became permament." 



Crop disposal is said to constitute a more serious problem than that of pro- 

 duction. 



The sugar-beet industry, potato production, seed pi'oduction, cotton produc- 

 tion, fruit production, pork production, dairying, the sheep industry, and beef 

 production are among the phases discussed. 



British agriculture the nation's opportunity, E. G. Strutt, L. Scott, and 

 G. H. Roberts (London: John Murray, 1911, pp. XI+168). — This book, after 

 a review of English agricultural policy and problems of land settlement before 

 the war, consists of a discussion of the findings and recommendations of the 

 minority report of the departmental committee on the employment of sailors 

 and soldiers on the land referred to in a previous note (E. S. R., 35, p. 296). 



[Progress of agriculture in India] {Rpt. Prog. Agr. India, 1915-16, pp. 84- 

 89). — Such forms of agricultural cooperation as societies for the sale of 

 manure, cooperative dairies, cattle breeding societies, registered seed unions, 

 and cattle insurance societies are briefly mentioned. Various recommendations 

 and tendencies are discussed. 



A graphic summary of world agriculture, V. C. Finch, O. E. Baker, and 

 R. G. Hainsworth {U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1916, pp. 531-553, figs. 19). — 

 Production and acreage of important crops are compared for the important 

 countries of the world. Several page maps indicate graphically crop and acreage 

 comparisons. 



Price Current Grain Reporter Yearbook, 1917, B. G. Osman {Price Current 

 Grain Rptr. Yearbook 1911, pp. 96). — This issue continues data previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 35, p. 893), giving statistics for a later year. 



