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lion of some of tbe good aspects of tenancy and of the prerequisites for an ideal 

 system of tenancy. Part B is the report of investigations recently noted (E. S. 

 R., 40, p. 892). 



The Irish land acts: A short sketch, of their history and development, 

 W. F. Bailey (Dublin: Goct., 1917, pp. 7/.S, 2>/.s-. 8). — Tlie various Irish land acts 

 of the period 1800-1909 are discussed in chronological order, sliowing tlie ad- 

 vantages and evils and the progress under each. The author describes the es- 

 tablishment of tlie Congested Districts Board and statutes dealing with conges- 

 tion, the provision of allotments of land and dwellings for agricultural laborers, 

 and miscellaneous details. 



Method of colonization, O. Schulz {Ausiedlunr/s-Wegweiser. Berlin: 

 Deutsche LainlhuchlwndJunu. 1918, pp. ff^)-— This booklet sets forth various 

 means of acquiring capital and applying it to the purchase of agricultural small 

 holdings in various sections of the German Empire. 



[Women's work on the land in England and Wales] (Jour. Bd. Agr. [Lon- 

 don^, 25 (1918), No. 7, pp. 785-839, pli^. 7). — This number contains a series of 

 eight articles descriptive of the official organization of women farm labor, the 

 origin and work of the Women's Land Army, the training of women on the land, 

 and women's institutes in the United Kingdom. 



Cooperation in the new world, L. Smith-Gordon (Better Business, 4 (1919). 

 No. S, pp. 168-185). — This article deals witli the status of mortgage credit in 

 the United States, particularly with the inception and progress of the Federal 

 farm loan system. The information has been largely derived from the report of 

 the United States Commmissiou to Europe in 1913 (E. S. R., 30, p. 492), the text 

 of the Federal Farm Loan Act (E. S. R., 35, p. 104), a summary of the first 

 official report of the American Bankers' Association*, and the report of the Sec- 

 retary of the Treasui-y for 1918. 



Cooperative buying and selling, J. L. Tennant (Agr. Gaa. Canada, 6 (1919), 

 No. 5, pp. 4'f9-'455). — Under this title are included notes on the status of farm- 

 ers' cooperative activities in Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, 

 Ontario, and British Columbia. 



[Agricultural cooperative societies of the Union of South Africa], J. 

 Retief (Union 8o. Afriea Dept. Agr. Rpt. 1917-18, pp. 131-144). — These pages 

 report the progress of the cooperative movement and the position of individual 

 societies in the Union of South Africa in 1917-18 continuing previous informa- 

 tion (B. S. R., 40, p. 93). 



[Agricultural associations in liberated regions], E. de Warken (Mission 

 Assoc. Agr. [Paris] Brochure No. 2 (1919), pp. 104). — The Mission of Agricul- 

 tural Associations of the Office of Agricultural Reconstiniction of the Ministry 

 of Liberated Regions outlines cooperative societies adaptable to various needs 

 and conditions of agriculturists in the liberated regions of France, with several 

 constitutional models, and suggests means for acquiring capital and loans and 

 collecting upon war damages. 



Effects of the great war upon agriculture in the United States and Great 

 Britain, B. H. Hibbard (Carnegie Endowment Internat. Peace, Div. Econ. and 

 Hist., Prelim. Eeon. Studies War No. 11 (1919), pp. IX +232, flgs. 8). — A com- 

 pilation of data largely from official sources, showing live-stock and crop pi»o- 

 duction and prices and exports of the United States in the period 1914-1918, 

 and summarizing the policies and results of the work of the Council of National 

 Defense, the U. S. Food Administration, and the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture in aiding the production and distribution of food. The domestic production 

 and trade in agricultural products in the United Kingdom after the outbreak of 



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