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creasing proportion of the population becomes rural or the present rate of in- 

 crease of population must be lowered. 



Land credits. — A plea for the American farmer, D. T. Morgan {Neio York: 

 Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1915, pp. XVI+299).— The author discusses the dif- 

 ferent bills submitted to Congress relating to . agricultural credit, indicating 

 their points of agreement and disagreement, and gives abstracts from com- 

 ments of Members of Congress relative to the rural-credit system needed in the 

 United States. He also outlines the type of credit institution he considers 

 essential for the proper development of American agriculture. 



Agricultural commerce, G. G. Huebneb {Neiv York and London: D. Apple- 

 ton and Co., 1915, pp. XIV-\-Jt06, figs. 17). — This book is designed to serve as a 

 text-book for colleges and universities. It points out the organization of 

 American commerce in agricultural commodities, and contains chapters on the 

 following topics : Classification of agricultural markets and marketing pro- 

 cesses; the country grain elevator and warehouse system — the local grain 

 market ; primary and seaboard grain markets — the terminal-elevator system ; 

 the local cotton market ; central cotton markets — the distribution of cotton ; 

 relations between speculative exchanges and the sale of farm produce ; the 

 local market for live stock ; central live-stock markets ; the wool market ; the 

 leaf-tobacco trade ; the marketing of fruit ; the commercial inspection and 

 grading of agricultural staples ; collection and dissemination of crop reports ; 

 the insurance of agricultural commodities ; the financing of crops ; prices of 

 agi'icultural commodities ; and foreign markets and market Influences. 



The producers' marketing guide, G. C. Takman and L. Leer [Neto Paris, 

 Ind.: Producers' Marketing Guide Co., 1915, pp. 53, figs. 19). — This pamphlet 

 <was written to advise country producers how to market their produce direct, 

 and relates to methods that may be employed in packing and shipping eggs, 

 butter, poultry, fruit, vegetables, and miscellaneous farm produce. It also 

 contains the parcel-post regulations and form letters, cards, and labels to be 

 used in conducting the business direct. 



Cotton trade guide and student's manual, T. S. Miller {[Austin, Tex.: 

 E. L. Stcck], 1915, pp. IX +431, pis. 18, fig. i).— The author has written this 

 book primarily for the use of classes in agricultural colleges. It contains a 

 definition of terms used in the cotton trade, methods used in grading, methods 

 for estimating the cost of the different factors in the distribution of cotton, ex- 

 planation of the quotations used on the different cotton exchanges, and how 

 comparisons can be made, and the function of the cotton exchange. A brief 

 history of cotton is included. In connection with most of the chapters a series 

 of questions and problems relating to their contents is given. 



Live-stock statistics {Internat. Inst. Agr. [Rome}, Bui. Agr. and. Com. 

 Statis., 6 {1915}, No. 11, pp. 618, 619). — Live-stock statistics are given showing 

 the number of the different classes for the native States of British India for 

 the crop seasons 1912-13 and 1913-14, and for Tunis, the number on December 

 31, 1913, and on July 31, 1915. 



Monthly crop report {U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rpt., 1 {1915), No. 8, pp. 

 77-92, figs. 2). — This number gives the usual monthly estimates of the farm 

 value of the more important agricultural products, and the range of prices at 

 important markets, with detailed crop statistics for 1913, 1914, and 1915, esti- 

 mates of the prices of articles purchased by farmers, and miscellaneous data 

 concerning cucumbers grown for manufacture in Michigan, the acreage and pro- 

 duction of dry beans, the production of cranberries, ocean freight rates, the pro- 

 duction of tobacco by types and districts, and the condition of early southern 

 truck crops. 



