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Tho law of Nebraska is said to Ijo soinewliat loss liboral than that of certain 

 other States with wliich it is here eoinpared. A prosperous future is forecasted 

 for cooperative societies of all kinds iu Nebraska. 



A brief list of }»ood publications on the rural community {Mass. Ayr. 

 Col., Ext. Circ. 36 {l'J20), pj). [Jt]). — A brief suj,'gestive bibliography is given. 



Farm life studies and their relation to home economics work, C. J. Gal- 

 pin (Jour. Home Econ., 12 (1920), No. 4, pp. 159-161). — This is a brief outline 

 of one of the research projects in farm-life studies in the Otlice of Farm Man- 

 agement of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, which is concerned with 

 social situations, farm home life, the spiritual role of the woman iu the farm 

 home, the use of leisure time, and other related questions. 



The Market Reporter (U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Market Rptr., 2 (1920), Nos. 1, pp. 

 16; 2. pp. n-32, fujx. 2; 3, pp. 33-^8, flu. i).— The usual weekly and monthly 

 sunuuaries -of information regarding movement, marketing, and prices of 

 specitied conmiodities, and important classes of agricultural products and 

 foreign markets are continued in these numbers. 



Special articles appearing in No. 1 relate to the fruit and vegetable market 

 at Kansas City and potato shipments at the principal markets for 1919. In 

 No. 2 there is one indicating that American exports of food have doubled in 

 the last tive years, comparing the trend of food exports before and during the 

 war and noting the outlook in foreign countries. Diagrams present the export 

 trade in three periods, the decade from 1900 to 1909, the 5-year prewar period, 

 3910 to 1914, and the war period from 1915 through 1919. It is concluded that 

 there need be no alarm as to the ability of the United States to hold its own 

 in foreign trade in agricultural pi'oducts. In the same number are articles on 

 the peach as a popular short-season fruit, the market for hides, and the effect 

 of car shortage on the grain market. No. 3 contains leading articles on beef 

 and cattle prices, the advance in evaporated and condensed milk prices, and 

 the onion market in the principal cities. 



Farmers' Market Bulletin (North Carolina Sta., Farmers' Market Bui., 7 

 (1920), No. 36, pp. 10). — This number contains a brief note on cooperative wool 

 sales and the usual list of products which farmers have for sale. 



Economic notes on Brazil (Rio de Janeiro: Min. Agr. Indus, and Com., 

 1919, 3. cd., pp. 103). — This is a revision of a report previously noted (E. S. R., 

 38, p. 393), in which statistical data is continued down through 1917. 



Area and yields of agriculture in the Republic of Austria for the year 

 1918, with comparisons (Anbaufldchcn und Ernteergebnisse im Gebiete der 

 Rcpublik Ostcrreich im Jahre 1918, Verglichen mit den auf dieses Oebiet Bezo- 

 yimcn einschlagigen Daien des Jahres 1917 und des Letzten Normaljahrcs 

 (1913). [Austria]: Govt., 1919, pp. 25).— Tabulated statistics for 1918 with 

 comparisons for 1917 and 1913, as collected by the Austrian Commission of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, are given. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



Vocational education, S. A. Bakek (Missouri Pub. Scliools Rpt., 10 (1919), 

 pp. 26-30). — This is a report on the program, organization, and status of voca- 

 tional education In Missouri for the year ended June 30, 1919. Instruction in 

 vocational agriculture was introduced into 38 high schools and instruction in 

 vocational home economics into 32 high schools. The State university has well- 

 organized plans for tJie training of teachers of agriculture, home economics, and 

 of trade and industrial subjects. 



Vocational ediicabion [in Florida], S. Phillips (Fla. Stipt. Pub. Instr. 

 Bien. Rpt., 1916-1918, pp. 77/-7S0).— This Is a report of th(> Florida State 



oard for Vocational Education for the years 1917-18 and 1918-19. 





