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facts concerning settling on the land, cash required, crop statistics, live-stock 

 statistics, total receipts per farm and distribution of income, and principal 

 complaints of settlers. Part 2 contains maps of each county concerned and 

 presents the records of individual farms that make up the averages presented 

 in Part 1. 



Some of the conclusions are that a soil survey and land utilization survey 

 should be made, that small grain crops, potatoes, garden produce, and hay may 

 be made profitable crops in this section, that a constructive program of State 

 aid in clearing the land and draining it is necessary and would eliminate the 

 settler's need of working away from his farm, that live stock, especially dairy 

 stock, is a prime essential to a good income, and that it is desirable to develop 

 the woods as an annual cash crop. Furthermore, real estate licenses under 

 safe regulations should be adopted; and investigations as to cost and methods 

 of clearing land, profitable marketing practices, types of farming, land coloniza- 

 tion schemes, and like problems should become a part of the State's program of 

 land reclamation and settlement. 



First steps for bring'ing into use the idle lands of Oregon, T. T. Mungeb 

 (Commoniccalth Rev., Univ. Oreg., 3 (1918), No. 3, pp. 52-62). — In this article 

 the author urges careful classification of the cut-over lands and rough, hilly 

 lands of Oregon as the first step in inducing colonization in that State. 



[Agricultural phases of political economy], T. N. Carver (In Principles of 

 Political Economy. Boston and London: Ginn & Co., 1919, pp. 1^2-154, 208-220, 

 318-328, 409-417, 563-571, fig. i).— The author includes in this examination of 

 economic principles chapters on land, the genetic industries, marketing, the 

 rent of land, and the single tax. 



Scientific agriculture and the nation's food, [H. G. Wells] (In The Ele- 

 ments of Reconsti-uction. London: Nisbet & Co., Ltd., 1916, pp. 45-56). — The 

 author's point of view is that the State should function as a buyer and dis- 

 tributor of food, that a tariff must not be merely protective but subsidize the 

 grower in the form of a bonus price at the expense of the community benefiting 

 from a prosperous agriculture, and that nationalization of public services will 

 spread and make effectual the scientific education. 



Conservation and regulation in the United States during the world war, 

 C. R. Van Hise {Washington: U. S. Food Admin, [pt. i] (1917), pp. 63; pt. 2 

 (1918), pp. VII-}-64-233). — Part 1 consists of an outline for a course of lectures 

 to be given in higher educational institutions on the economic principles in- 

 volved in conservation and Government regulation, the conditions antecedent to 

 the world war, economic effects of the world war, measures taken for fruit 

 production and conservation, and Federal regulatory legislation. Part 2 de- 

 scribes in detail the work accomplished under the various laws and boards. 

 The outline was prepared for the U. S. Food Administration. 



The food crisis and Americanism, W. Stull (New York: The Macmillan Co., 

 1919, pp. VIII-{-135). — The author discusses the increase of farm mortgages, 

 also school systems, organized labor, mills and elevators, methods of packers, 

 and many otb.ers as factors in the food shortage and low farm profits. 



The farmer's problem and the remedy, E. F. Ladd (North Dakota Sta. Spec. 

 Bui., 5 (1919), No. 8, pp. 177-190).— In this address before the Tri-State Grain 

 Growers' Convention at Fargo, N. Dak., January IG, 1919, the author empha- 

 sizes the farmer's responsibility in matters of improved methods of production, 

 grading, and marketing of products, also of cooperation and diversified agri- 

 culture for North Dakota. 



The place of agriculture in industry, C. S. Obwin (In Some Problems of 

 Urban and Rural Industry. Oxford: Ruskin Col., 1917, pp. 60-75). — This paper 

 is a part of the report on The Reorganization of Industry, Series II. The 



