1920] RURAL ECONOAIICS. 291 



Selecting a farm, E. H. Thomson {U. S. Dcpt. Afjr., Fanners' Bui. 1088 

 (1920), pp. 27, figs. //). — The purpt'se of this bulletin is to su^Kest to those who 

 have had limited experience in farming or who may contemplate moving into 

 an unfamiliar locality, some of the points to be observed when selecting a farm. 

 A blank form is appended summarizing the points emphasized, principally 

 location; topography and soli; arrangement; water supply; social conditions; 

 prospective rise in value; buying ociuipment, live stock, etc., with the farm; 

 possii)ility of disposing of it; buying a farm and renting additiftnal land; and 

 renting a farm. 



[Ileport of farm management survey work], A. Leitcii and J. C. Nkale 

 (Ann. Rpt. Ontario Agr. and Expt. Union, J/l (1919), pp. 46-49). — Tabulations 

 of data from 1,400 farms representing for distinct areas and three types of 

 farming in the Province of Ontario, dairying, beef-raising, and mixed farming, 

 are given. In the first instance returns are arranged according to tillable area, 

 capital, crop acres per man, and labor income, making comparisons between 

 the dairying section of Oxford County and the beef-raising sections in Peel 

 and Middlesex Counties. The first comparison indicates that the labor income 

 is proportionate to the capital invested. The Oxford nian buys a small farm 

 because he must pay more per acre and must buy more live stock. The Peel 

 County man buys a larger farm. Their labor incomes for the year will be 

 approximately the same. 



The second comparison indicates that the area actually under crop is much 

 larger on the Oxford County dairy farm than on the Middlesex beef-raising 

 farm, that with certain exceptions the number of acres of croi)s handled by 

 eacli man is larger in Oxford than in Middlesex, these first two features in- 

 volving a smaller labor income in the latter section, and that the capital 

 invested is smaller on the beef farm than on the dairy farm of equal size. 



Another tabulation is given showing a steady decrease in the labor income 

 as the percentage of tillable land in pasture increases. Certain so-called odd- 

 sized dairy farms are isolated from the data for Oxford County, and it is es- 

 tablished that those of 61 to 75 tillable acres and of 111 to 135 tillable acres 

 refpilre a greater managerial ability on the part of the operator than do 

 farms of any other size. The size of farm which seems to be nearest the ideal 

 for dairying purposes is said to be the one having from 90 to 110 acres tillable. 



Dairying turned the trick, J. C. McDowell (Banker-Farmer, 7 (1920), No. 

 4-5, pp. 2-4, figs. 3). — This is an abstract of an article which has been noted 

 from another source (E. S. R., 41, p. 677). 



[Study program by the American Association for Agricultural Legisla- 

 tion], A. B. Cox (Amer. Assoc. Agr. Leg. Bui. 4 (1919), pp. 19). — Topics designed 

 to stinndate study and training for leadership among advanced college students 

 are outlined under the heads of food production and prices, land settlement 

 study, education and improvement of rural life, marketing, taxation as it re- 

 lates to agricultural, rural credits, economic studies in highway development, 

 public grazing land.s in the West, collective bargaining in agriculture, and farm 

 labor problems in the United States. Subjects for debate and studies pre- 

 viously published are also noted. 



[Report of the Porto Rico commissioner of agriculture and labor], M. 

 Camunas (War Dept. [U. S.] Ann. Rpt. Governor P. R., 19 (1919), pp. 685- 

 713). — Included in this report are brief notes relating to agricultural associa- 

 tions, investigations relative to extending the Federal Farm Loan act to Porto 

 Rico, and the economic and social condition of farm laborers. 



Agricultural products [of Brazil], A. H. Kkdfikld and H. Watkins (U. S. 

 Dept. Com., Bur. Foreign and Dom. Com., Misc. Ser. No. 86 (1920), pp. 20-33).— 

 This chapter in the study of economic conditions in Brazil during the war illus- 



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