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ing them in carrying out such special campaigns as may be deemed necessary 

 further to impress the necessity of safe farming upon farmers and country peo- 

 ple generally. 



Continue to give cordial support and backing to the county agents, both men 

 and women, the extension forces of the States, and all educational activities of 

 a public character, as they are the permanent forces in the State and working 

 in the interests of all the people. 



Community welfare in Kansas, W. Buer (Kans. Agr. Col. Ext. Bui. 4 

 {1915), pp. 34, figs. 21). — The author has discussed the factors in community 

 activity and outlined certain different lines of work that can be taken up in 

 each. Jle gives a suggested constitution for a community welfare club and the 

 available bulletin material on community welfare projects. As pointed out by 

 the author, he has adapted the plans outlined by Carver previously noted (E. 

 S. R., 33, p. 292) to certain typical Kansas conditions. 



Hale's history of agriculture by dates, P. H. Hale {St. Louis, Mo.: Hale 

 Publishing Co., 1915, 5. ed., pp. 94, figs. 122). — This pamphlet contains a large 

 number of historical references to agricultural events dating from 4241 B. C. 

 to date. 



The holy earth, L. H. Bailey {New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915, pp. 

 VI +171). — In this book are discussed the relationship of raau to the earth, 

 especially the various aspects which affect the life of agricultural people. 



German agriculture and the war {Joiir. Bd. Agr. [London'\, 22 {1915), No. 

 8, pp. 741-750). — This article contains a brief description, drawn from German 

 publications, of the methods used to husband the food supply and to feed the 

 people as well as the live stock. 



Plan for the reorganization of agriculture in Spain, G. F. de la Rosa 

 {Bol. Agr. T6c. y Boon., 7 {1915), Nos. 73, pp. 73-^2; 7^, pp. 142-151; 75, pp. 

 237-246; 76, pp. 336-345; 77, pp. 444-454: 78. pp. 543-553; 79, pp. 643-653).— 

 The author gives a historical description of the agriculture of Spain from the 

 time of the expulsion of the Carthaginians to the present, and outlines a plan 

 for the reorganization of the existing system of production and of providing 

 farmers with better credit facilities. 



English field systems, H. L. Gray {Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University 

 Press, 1915, pp. IX +568, pi. 1, figs. 16). — The author has examined the histori- 

 cal evidence of the different systems of holding land in England. 



He concludes that the different systems are the result of the differences in 

 extent to which foreign nations subjugated the English people, and he points 

 out that throughout five counties of the southeast the influence of Roman 

 Britain in agrarian affairs persisted after the Germanic conquest of the fifth 

 century. Either the conquerors showed extraordinary flexibility in adopting a 

 field system with which they must have been unfamiliar, or they spared a 

 part of the native population who, as serfs, continued to employ their own 

 agricultural methods. The large central area, stretching from Durham to the 

 Channel and from Cambridgeshire to Wales, was the region throughout which 

 Germanic usage prevailed, presumably because of the thoroughgoing nature of 

 the fifth-century subjugation; the southeast was characterized by the persist- 

 ence of Roman influence; and the counties of the southwest, northwest, and 

 north retained Celtic agragian usages. 



The systems of renting land in England, Scotland, and Ireland, J. Wilson 

 {Hoard's Dairyman, 1915, Dec. 31, pp. 747, 751, 752).— The author gives a brief 

 historical statement regarding the past system of renting and points out the 

 principal features of the system now in effect. 



