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[Public lands and immigration laws of Bolivia], W. A. Reid (In Bolivia. 

 WaJ^hinpton: Bolivian Lefiation [1919], pp. Jt9-5o, fiys. Jf). — The area and kiiitl 

 of public lands available for cobjnization are briefly noted, together with a 

 synopsis of Bolivian land and immigration laws. 



The land settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919 {8rot. Jour. Agr.. 3 (1920). Xo. 

 1, pp. Ji5-52). — The provisions of the new act of December 23, 1919. designed 

 to amend previous legislation along the lines of the acquisition of small hold- 

 ings and allotments, establishment of small holdings colonies, and the encourage- 

 ment of land banks and cooperative .societies, are reviewed. 



Capital required for entry to farms (Scot. Jour. Ayr., 3 (1920), Xo. 1. pp. 

 66-76). — Estimates based on practical experience are given of the capital re- 

 quired imder present conditions to undertake enterprises of four types, includ- 

 ing a mixed arable farm of 300 acres, a dairy farm in the southwest of Scotland 

 of 210 acres, a sheep farm on mountain and heath land, and a poultry farm. 



The fable of inferiority of agriculture in France, P. Caziot (Jour. Ayr. 

 Prat, n. ser., 32 (1919), Xos. ^5, pp. 907-909: 46. pp. 927-929).— A comparative 

 study of figures recently obtained by tlie French Ministry of Agriculture and 

 of earlier estimates is made to show that on an equal area of equally select 

 grain-growing land the yields per acre for France equal or even exceed those 

 of Germany and of neighboring regions. 



The condition of agriculture in Germany, F. Simpich (T. S. Dept. Com., 

 Com. Rpts.. No. 77 (1920), pp. 6-9).— This article shows that the yields of the 

 principal crops in Germany declined in 1919 as compared with 1918, due to 

 shortage of labor, fertilizers, work animals, and equipment. It is indicated 

 also that Germany's importations from abroad of grain and feeding stuffs 

 have been increasing during the last generation, although highly improved 

 methods have kept her a prominent agrarian nation, and estimates for 1913 

 are compared with amounts obtained since the armistice from various grain- 

 producing countries. It is said that her crop prospects are good, although the 

 situation is complicated by the agricultural labor problem involved with the 

 low wages offered, the support by the Ministry of Agriculture of the idea of a 

 farm laborers' federation on the 8-hour basis, and the cutting off of labor 

 immigration from Russia and Poland. Live stock numbers are short, farmers 

 are slow to accept the Government Food Commission's price for grain, large 

 acreages devoted to crops and vineyards have been lost under the terras of 

 the treaty, and there is a conflict of interests between city and rural p'lpula- 

 tions. 



Agricultural purchase societies, K. Gabel (Land u. Fran, 1 (1917). Xo. 6, 

 pp. 41, 42, fig. 1). — The origin and scope of cooperative purchase and sale and 

 supply societies for rural districts of Germany are briefly noted. 



Cooperative farming in Italy, L. Smith-Goedon (Better Business, 5 (1920). 

 No. 2, pp. 81-101). — A summary is given of the history and present position of 

 cooperative labor and fai'ming societies in Italy. Difficulties met and overcome 

 in matters of acquisition of suitable land, provision of credit, and technical 

 management are described, the information having been gained by the author 

 while on personal visits to Italy. 



Peasant cooperation and agrarian reform in Roumania, IM. ^I. Knight 

 (Polit. Sei. Quart.. 35 (1920), No. 1. pp. 1-28).— The growth of the popular 

 banks and of peasant cooperatives, mainly from 1895-1919, is dealt ^vith, fol- 

 lowing a brief historical introduction on the general economic and social 

 foundation upon which the situation rests. The so-called expropriation hiw 

 of 1918, by which all cultivable Crown and institutional lands, those of all 

 foundations, all lands of subjects who were aliens by birth, marriage, or 

 naturalization, and all rural lands belonging to absentees as well as lands 



