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S9~58). — Three periods in the history of land settlement In Tinted States are 

 desljniated as the period of sale, period of development and home buildinK, and. 

 the period of research and conservation, and a fourth and latest one called the 

 perio<J of cooi)eration is sui,'j,'osted. It is stated that the chief fertile public 

 lands are no lonj^cr available in the West, and that the course of settlement 

 and aurlcultura! (U'vclopmcnt may well be directed toward the South and East. 



Land settlement in Denmark, J. G. Stkwart {Jour. Min. Agr. [London], 

 .iO {n)20). No. 11, pp. 1061-lOSO. figs. 2).— In this article is described the way 

 in which Denmark fultills the conditions deemed essential to a successful 

 scheme of land settlement, providing small holders with adequate capital, 

 practical experience, and sound general education. It is concluded that a 

 small holder in Denmark may make a comfortable living from about 11 acres 

 provided he employs no extra labor ; also, that the Danisli small holder is 

 slightly better equiiiped than the average in England and is more inciinoil 

 toward cooperative methods. 



The development of pea.sant land holding in a C^onnnune of Berry, V. 

 Cazuyt (.hmr. Ayr. Prat., n. ser., 32 {1919), Nos. 37, pp. tJfO-Utl ; 39, pp. 7S.), 

 786). — Some stati.stics are given to show the increa.se in number of small 

 I»easant holdings at a certain commune in the north of Sancerrois, France, 

 l>etweeii 1S35 and 1919, and to show the breaking up of large estates into 

 medium and .small peasant holdings cultivated by the owner. The author con- 

 siders this development an imi)ortant one for France both from the social and 

 economic points of view. 



Rural economy in the Province of Santiago del Estero, M. T. Go.mi;/, 

 {liol. Min. Agr. [Argentina], 2.7 {1920), No. 1, pp. .5.5-80).— This province in 

 north central Argentina is described from the point of view of potential agri- 

 cultural production, depending principally upon irrigation, colonization, and the 

 remedying of the present evil of ab.sentee land ownership. P^nidamental detaile<i 

 accounts of costs of producing alfalfa, corn, and wheat on 12 different ranches 

 are given. In noting the increase in price of agricultural products, attention 

 is paid to transportation charges and particularly to the cost of charcoal and 

 wo(»d used f<n- fuel by the railroad companies in this region. 



A review of Phili|>pine agriculture and Philippine trade opportunities 

 in the United States, P. J. Westek {Philippine Agr. Rev., 13 {1920), No. 1, pp. 

 5-2.'i, pis. 10). — This paper reviews the agricultural progress of the Philippines 

 in the last nine years, noting the introduction or development of specific im- 

 IMirtant crops and live stock, the production, export trade, and possibilities for 

 the future as depending upon the influx of capital, particularly from \\\v 

 United States. 



[Zaniboanga Province and the Sulu Archipelago: >>atural resources and 

 opportunities for agricultural development], P. .J. Wi:.sti;i! {Philippine Agr. 

 Rev., 13 {1920), No. 1, pp. 25-56, pis. 12). — Two descriptive articles are included 

 in those pages relating to the agricultural industries of two. regions of the 

 I'liili])piiies. 



The development of Knglisli agriculture and rural life, A. W. and M. K. 

 AsUBY {London: Natl. Home Heading Union [1918], pp. 32). — A discu.ssion is 

 given of the changes in Goverinnent agricultural policy brought about by thi» 

 war and the early attempts at education, inducement, and comi)ulsion to in- 

 crease food ))roduction lejuilng uj) to the Corn Pi-oduction Act of 1017, witl, a 

 brief hi.storieal r(?sum(? of social problems arising out of England's agricultural 

 system, mainly since 1SG5, also of the development of agricultural education and 

 the cooperative and rural housing and town planning movements. There fol- 

 lows a consideration of the general problem of village society, orgaidzation of 

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