1920] AGRICULTUEAL EDUCATION. 95 



taken from private estates contaiuing more than aljout 25U acres according 

 t<j a graduated scale were paid for in government land bonds and given into 

 the possession of peasant land associations to be parcelled out in lots of from 

 :about 12 to 50 acres, is described. (3ther post-war reforms are noted, and a 

 table showing the growth of Roumanian cooperatives by kinds, number of 

 members, capital, reserve funds, and buildings and installations according to 

 ligures furnished by the Roumanian Minister of Agriculture, is included. 



Annual report on the working of the cooperative societies act in Burma 

 for the year ended June 30, 1919 {Ann. Rpt. Coop. Socs. Act, Burma, 1919, 

 PP- [3] +5+40). —This reports the administration, general progress, working, 

 financial condition and x'ules and regulations of agricultural and nonagricul- 

 tural societies, insurance societies, central banks, and others. 



Economic conditions in some Deccan Canal areas, H. H. Mann (Ayr. 

 -Jour. India. U (1919), Xo. 5. pp. 804-810; also in Poona Ayr. Col. Mag.. 10 

 (I9i3), Xo. If. pp. 194-199). — The author cliaracterizes in general the four 

 •canal areas of the Deccan, and particularly that irrigated by the Nira Canal, 

 and .shows that effort, capital, and water are being concentrated on the growing 

 of sugar cane with certain economic effects such as increase of credit demands, 

 circulation of money, and high interest rates. He points out that more atten- 

 tion to means of reducing costs of production, increasing yields, and improving 

 the quality will be demanded than in the past. 



Report of the Army Agricultural Committee, Harcourt et at.. (London: 

 [Mar 0#.]. 1919, pp. 18; ahs. in Scot. Jour. Ayr., 3 {1920), No. 1, pp. 78-80).— 

 The work of British Command agricultural committees and directorates and 

 •of the departments of agriculture in growing vegetables and live stock for local 

 army and camp supplying, and farming and irrigation operations for food 

 production at home and in French and Jlesopotamian theatei-s and Salonika is 

 reported Tipon. Tables are included summarizing cultivations and results of 

 the Home Forces in 1918. and showing finances, total produce, ai'eas cultivated 

 to various crops, and seed issued. 



Argentina's export trade during 1919, W. H. Robertson (T. S. Dept. 

 Com., Com. Rpts.. No. 54 {1920), pp. 1286, i287).— Tables show the destination 

 of Argentina's chief exports in 1919, with comparisons of the total exports of 

 each article for 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918, and the quantities of the leading 

 products exported during 1912, 1913. and 1914. An increase is shown in ship- 

 ments during 1919, as compared with 1918, especially in the case of wheat, 

 maize, quebracho logs, calfskins, and horsehides. 



[Agricultural statistics for the United Kingdom, 1903-1917] (Stati.'i. 

 .4 ?>.-?. United Kinydom 1903-1917, jjp. 308-321) .—ThU continues brief statistical 

 *lata as to prices and sales of grain, acreage of crops, and number nf live 

 ^itof-k previously noted (E. S. R.. 42, p. 90). 



Returns of produce of crops in Scotland {Ayr. Statis. Scotland. 7 (1918), 

 pt. 2, pp. [2] +<j/-8^).— Information previously noted (E S. R., 42, p. 90) is 

 < ortinued for a later year. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The reorganization of agricultural education, S. Plissonntkr (hn R^- 

 -forme dr IJEnseiynement AyricoJe. Paris: H. Dunod d- E. Pinat, 1919, pp. 

 [71+//i5, figs. 3). — This volume of the Encyclopedie Parliamentaire des Sciences 

 Politiques and Sociales is a reproduction, somewhat modified, of the principal 

 parts of the report which the author prepared for the Commission of Agricul- 

 ture of the Chamber of Deputies in support of the project for the reorganization 

 of agricultural education in France, which the Chamber adopted in March, 1914. 



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