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Subcommittee Report (E. S. R., 40, p. 91). There is also included a minority 

 report by R. V. Lennard. 



The soldier colonists, W. H. Warm an (London: Chatto & Windus, 1918, pp. 

 XI +180). — The introduction to this has been written by the Earl of Selborne, 

 and two chapters included by C. Brooks. Historical instances of group settle- 

 ment and the early theories of B. G. Wakefield are discussed in approaching 

 the subject, also the principles of organization, psychology, and cooperation 

 upon which systematic migration within the British Empire must be under- 

 taken. On the practical side, the author has included a survey of the offers 

 of overseas dominions of land for settlement, and suggestions for advance and 

 headquarters organization for the project. State representatives, district inspec- 

 tors, group leaders, and others. He reviews much of the Tennyson Committee's 

 Report in chapters on women and religion and shipping and finance. 



List of references on women in agriculture, C. R. Green (Spec. Libraries, 10 

 {1919), No. 5, pp. 138-1^5). — This bibliography was prepared by the library of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the references being classified under 

 the following headings: General, beekeeping, dairying, education, forestry, 

 horticulture, mechanics, poultry, bibliography, fiction, history, and organization. 



[The new laborers' code regulating labor in Germany] (Abs. in Mo. Rev., 

 V. S. Labor Statis., 9 {1919), No. 1, pp. 235-237; Internat. Inst. Agr. [Rotne], 

 Internat. Rev. Agr. Econ., 10 {1919), No. 4, pp. 231, 238; Jour. Bd. Agr. [Lon- 

 don], 26 (1919), No. 4, pp. ^3, 45^). — In these publications appear abstracts of 

 the provisions of ah ordinance agi'eed upon by the largest agricultural em- 

 ployment and workers' organization in Germany, and made legal by a decree is- 

 sued by the people's commissioners and the minister of labor. 



One-third-share farm rent, A. Beckerich {Ann. Sci. Agron., 4- ser., 8 {1919), 

 No. 4-6, pp. 97-106). — Information taken from early French lease contracts 

 based on this system is cited, and tables showing the marked fluctuations in 

 harvests and prices of grains, etc., through a period of years are given to illus- 

 trate the equal fairness of share-rent systems in times of good harvests and 

 bad. 



Farm management, J. H. Arnold {Netc York: The MacmiUan Co., 1919, pp. 

 [6'[-\-243, pis. 10). — This is a general discussion of the principles of selection 

 of the farm, management of soil and crops, problems of time, seasons, power, 

 and marketing in their relation to crops, advantages of and profits from live 

 stock, farm organization and business methods, factors in efiiciency, and farm 

 administration. 



How to cultivate an agricultural holding, R. Yuigner {Comment Exploiter 

 mi Domaine Agricole. Paris: J.-B. Baillicre & Sons, 1917, 2. ed., rev. and enl., 

 pp. 640, figs. 4). — This volume of the Encyclopedia of Agriculture, published 

 under the direction of G. Wery, is a collection of brief treatises based upon 

 the principles of the science and practice of agriculture promulgated in France 

 by the National Institute of Agronomy. The subjects included are soil man- 

 agement, the production of edible and industrial plants, live stock, certain agri- 

 cultural industries including distilling and wine pressing, sugar refining, and 

 butter and cheese making, laws dealing with holding and cultivation of rural 

 property, and other economic and social phases of agriculture. 



Cooperation for farmers, L. Smith-Gordon {London: WiUia7ns cC Norgatc, 

 1918, pp. XIV +247). — The development of cooperation for consumers and agri- 

 culturists on the Continent and in Ireland is discussed historically. Diffi- 

 culties of the system when applied to agriculture, types of consumers' coopera- 

 tion, pro<lucers' societies, and credit societies are discussed, and the progress 

 of the cooperative movement in Denmark, Ireland, and the United States, the 



