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eries. It is divided into two main parts, the first dealing with a survey of 

 farming, supply of labor and its quality, conditions of labor, wages and earn- 

 ings, cottage accommodations and rents, relations of employers and employed, 

 gardens, allotments, small holdings, etc., with reference to England, and the 

 second part following practically the same plan with reference to Wales. Vol- 

 ume 2 embodies the 51 reports of investigators drawn up by counties of Eng- 

 land and W^ales iu accordance with a syllabus prepared by the Board of Agri- 

 culture. Some of the data secured by this investigation were incorporated in 

 the report noted above. 



Beport on the wages and conditions of employment in agriculture (Jour. 

 Bd. Agr. [London}, 26 (191D), No. 1, pp. Jf-15).— This is an abstract of volume 

 1 of the work noted above. 



Profit sharing- in agriculture {Edinb. Rev., 229 {1919), No. 467, pp. 1-18; 

 (ths. in Scot. Jour. Agr., 2 {1919), No. 2, pp. 229-232). — The author describes 

 iu detail a system of partnership in farming, taking into consideration the 

 throe interests entitled to a share in the dividends of the enteiijrises, capital, 

 management, and labor. He urges that this plan is one which can be put 

 into operation at once and without disturbance in systems of management 

 prevailing, or to the habits of mind of the men whom it would concern, that it 

 offers a working alternative to the struggle between labor and capital and the 

 limit imposed on wages by the capacity for productivity of the land, and fur- 

 ther that it offers opportunity for managerial ability and facilitates direction 

 of the work of ex-service men, who may desire to settle on the land yet who 

 run an uncertain chance of success on small holdings. 



Prevailing plans and practices among farmers' mutual fi^re insurance com- 

 panies, V. N., Valgren (U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 786 {1919), pp. 15, fig. i).— Data 

 secured from questionnaires filled out and returned by 1,161 companies ai-e sum- 

 marized here. Studies based on the same data have been previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 37, p. 594). 



Tropical agriculture: The climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live 

 stock, commercial importance, and opportunities of the Tropics, E. V. Wil- 

 cox {Netv York and London: D. Appleton d Co., 1916, pp. XVIII +373, pis. 24). — 

 Several chapters in this volume are devoted to a discussion of the subjects of 

 tropical climate, soils, agricultural methods, importance of tropical products 

 in commerce, economic and social conditions and opportunities in the tropics. 

 In subsequent ones, the author describes briefly the nature, source and com- 

 mercial importance of about 350 economic plants, and gives an account of the 

 live stock and animal products indiistry of the tropics. 



Rural Denmark and its lessons, H. R. Haggard {London and New York: 

 Longmans, Green & Co., 1917, pp. XIV-\-S35, pi. i).— This is a new impression of 

 a book previously noted (E. S. R., 25. p. 692). 



Monthly Crop Reporter {U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rptr., 5 {1919), No. 5, pp. 

 45-52, fig. 1). — This number reports, as usual, the estimated farm value of 

 important products April 15 and May 1, 1919, average prices received by pro- 

 ducers in the United States, range of prices of agricultural products at im- 

 portant markets, the United States crop summary for May, and crop con- 

 ditions May 1, 1919, with comparisons. It also includes data showing the con- 

 dition of farm animals May 1 and estimated losses during the year ended 

 April 30, with comparisons, crop conditions in California and Florida, and 

 final returns showing Louisiana sugar and sirup production, 1918, also similar 

 information regarding maple sugar and sirup. It gives a honeybee report May 

 1, 1919, by States, with comparisons, and special articles on farm live stock 

 changes, varieties of spring wheat, and other topics. 



