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The Puyallup laying house, G. R. Shoup {W(t.<!hinffton Sta., West. Wash. 

 Sta. Mo. BuL, 7 {1919), No. 1, pp. 6-16, figs. 7).— This article describes, illus- 

 trates, and gives plans for a laying house considered ideal for western Wash- 

 ington conditions. It has been attempted to construct a building which will 

 provide, besides roosting and nesting quarters, all uecessai\v equipment to make 

 conditions inside the building during the fall and winter a duplicate of those 

 prevailing during the spring when production is normally highest. 



Poultry house equipment, G. K. Shoup {Washington Sta,., West Wash. Sta. 

 Mo. Bui., 7 {1919), No. 2, pp. 26-32, figs. 4).— This article describes and illus- 

 trates the construction of furnishings and equipment for the efficient handling 

 of laying pullets. 



Trap nests, open nests, and trolley carriers, G. R. Shoup {Washington Sta. 

 West. Wash. Sta. Mo. Bui, 7 {1919), No. S, pp. 42-49, figs. 3).— This article 

 gives plans and descriptions of trap nests, open nests, and trolley egg car- 

 riers, considered adapted to western Washington conditions. 



RURAL ECONOMICS. 



Report of committee appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to con- 

 sider the subject of land economics as one of the divisions of research work 

 of the proposed Bureau of Farm Management and Farm Economics {U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Off. Sec. Circ. 138 {1919), pp. 8). — This outline for investigations 

 by the proposed Bureau of Farm Management and Farm Economics includes 

 land resources, land values, land ownership and tenancy, land settlement 

 and colonization, and land policies. The report contains recommendations. 

 for cooperation between the Office of Farm Management and other bureaus 

 and departments of the Government in the classification of lands from the 

 standpoint of their economic utilization. It also points out, for special 

 emphasis, questions of the economic causes which prevent areas of land 

 suitable for agriculture from being used, the good and evil of tenancy as a 

 method of holding land, the settlement of undeveloped regions by coloniza- 

 tion under governmental direction, and the most economical methods of using 

 these areas while in public ownership. 



Report of committee appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to con- 

 sider the subject of farm-life studies as one of the divisions of research 

 work of the proposed Bureau of Farm Management and Farm Economics 

 (C7. S. Dept. Agr., Off. Sec. Circ. 139 {1919), pp. S).— The list of topics for 

 study submitted by the committee includes rural home life, opportunities 

 for social contact in typical rural communities, the relation of educational 

 and religious institutions to farm-life problems, problems relating to geo- 

 graphical population groups, rural organizations (without definite geographi- 

 cal boundaries), social aspects of tenancy and landlordism, social aspects of 

 various types of farm labor, the relation of various forms of disability to 

 farm-life problems, the social consequences of local disasters due to natural 

 causes, and the social consequences of thrift and agencies for promoting 

 thrift. 



Rural and forest surveys, P. Caziot {Expertises Rurales et Forestidres. 

 Paris: J. B. Baillidre d Sons, 1917, pp. 396, figs. ^).— This is one of the vol- 

 umes of the Encyclopedie Agricole, published under the direction of G. Wery. 

 It is a technical guide for the valuation of various tyiies of rural property 

 and improvements, forests, and vineyards. 



Tenancy in an ideal system of landownership, R. T. Ely and C. J. Galpin 

 {Amcr. Econ. Rev., 9 {1919), No. 1, Sup., pp. 180-212).— Fart A is a considera- 



