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Farm sewage disposal for Idaho conditions, J. C. Wooley {Univ. Idaho Ext. 

 Biil. 20 (1918), pp. 12, figs. 10). — This is a very brief description of the con- 

 struction of sewage disposal systems which presumably are considered adequate 

 to meet all rural conditions in the State of Idaho. 



A portable privy for use in field service, T. H. D. Griffitts {Puh. Health 

 Rpts. [[/. -S.], 33 (1918), No. 30, pp. 1225, 1226, pis. 2).— A portable privy is de- 

 scribed and illustrated which is designed for the use of laborers employed at 

 work and required to move from place to place. 



Electricity on the farm, M. Creese (Md. Col. Agr. Ext. Serv. Bui. 9 (1911), 

 pp. 145-176, figs. 22).: — The purpose of this bulletin is to show the iwssibilities 

 of the use of electricity on the average Maryland farm and to illustrate the 

 applications of electricity for light and power. Lighting plans for the farm 

 liouse and barn are also given. 



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The place of agriculture in reconstruction, J. B. Morman (Netv York: E. P. 

 Button c£- Co., 1919, pp. IX-\-374)- — Soldier land settlement policies of ancient 

 Rome and the encouragement given to the matter by Great Britain, France, and 

 Canada are the subjects of earlier chapters. Sources of information for analysis 

 of the latter situations are respectively the program of the British Labor Party 

 and the British Government plan of small holdings and profit-sharing as ad- 

 ministered by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries ; the text of the French 

 law of April 9, 1918, and subsequent decrees and a pamphlet of instructions 

 concerning it ; and the provisions of the Canadian Land Settlement Act and 

 the plan for vocational training under direction of the Department of Soldiers' 

 Civil Reestablishment. 



The policy of the Secretary of Interior, land settlement acts proposed for 

 the United States, and px-opositions by farmers' organizations are described in 

 detail. The author urges a national policy of agriculture and land settlement 

 for the United States which shall provide for the employment of returned 

 soldiers, insure production on the unused acres in order to meet the needs of 

 the entire Nation, furnish mortgage and personal credit, facilitate land pur- 

 chase, and train farm laborers. 



The land and the soldier, F. C. Howe (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 

 1919, pp. XI -{-196). — The principles of Government promotion of farm colonies 

 and its practicability, as illustrated by the Durham State Land Settlement in 

 California and by similar projects in foreign countries, Australia, Denmark, 

 Ireland, Germany, and Russia, are discussed. The author points out what he 

 considers to be the advantages of such socialized farming in establishing re- 

 turned soldiers, spreading efficient agricultural practice, and offering remedies 

 for the evils of usury, land monopoly, and farm tenancy. He sets forth in 

 detail matters of selection of sites, plans of the communities, and means of 

 financing and securing credit to the colonists. 



Information regarding progress under the Land Settlement Act of the State 

 of California and about the plans for soldier settlement in the future (Sacra- 

 mento: State Land Settlement Ed., 1919, pp. ^3, figs. 12). — This gives a detailed 

 description of tiie Durham State land settlement from the passage of the State 

 Land Settlement Act, and of progress up to May 30, 1919. See also a previous 

 note (E. S. R., 40, p. 591.) 



The place of agriculture in modex'n industrial society, I-II, E. G. Nourse 

 (Jour. Polit. Econ., 27 (1919), Nos. 6, pp. J,66-J,97 ; 7, pp. 561-577).— From a dis- 

 cussion of two philosophies, termed the extravagantly agrarian and the strictly 

 mercantilist, the author approaches the theory of the conciliation of agriculture 



