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tion in France are briefly described in the first part of this pamphlet, and in the 

 second, principles of scientific management. The author favors collectivism 

 In agriculture and maintains that it may be fostered by agricultural education 

 and organization. 



Report by the Scottish Land Court as to their proceedings under the Small 

 Landholders Acts, 1918 (Rpt. Scot. Land Court, 1918, pp. ZZ+i^i).— Special 

 orders of the court in matters of cultivation of, improvements on, and tenure of 

 small holdings, a summary of statistics, and appendixes showing details of the 

 work of the court and the principal judgments issued are included in this report. 



Military agricultural colonies in southern Albania, C. Manetti {Agr. 

 Colon. [Italy}, 13 {1919), Nos. 2, pp. 92-125; 3-6, pp. 1^7-153, pis. ^).— This 

 article describes the topography, climate, native vegetation, and principal crops 

 in the region of Argj'ro-Castron, and the progress of military agricultural 

 colonies and experimental plats recently established there. 



Soldiers' settlements in Queensland, J. M. Hunter {Brisbane: Govt, [1918], 

 pp. 5, pis. 5).— The supervisory organization for soldiers' settlements is de- 

 scribed, and the areas set aside for this purpose and improvements under way 

 are reported upon. 



Agriculture and the war, P. Perreau Pradier {L'Agriculture et la Guerre. 

 Paris: J. B. Baillidre d Sons, 1919, pp. 220). — The author reviews agricultural 

 development in France, and shows the immediate effects of the war in decreasing 

 production, increasing cost of labor and fertilizers, and in causing loss of Uve 

 stock; also in the stimulus given to the rearrangement of parcelled holdings, 

 cultivation by motor power, rural credit and cooperation, and to State aid in 

 furnishing agricultural labor. He then devotes his discussion to the need of 

 repopulation of rural districts and agricultural education for the rural public. 



Land, the restorative, Roqxjette-Buisson and M. A. H^rubel {La Terre 

 Rcstauratrice. Paris: Payot d Co., 1919, pp. 2JfO). — The author discusses the 

 present food needs of the world, the principal world markets, food restrictions 

 in several countries during the war, the necessity of equilibrium in the 

 economic development of any nation, the industrial ambitions of nations, and 

 their attempts to conquer markets. He maintains that the problems that 

 France is facing are the need of assembling scattered agricultural holdings, 

 organization for acquiring agricultural capital, checking the rural exodus, 

 providing technical education, and intensive cultivation of the land. He 

 describes the needs for and functions of a rural party. 



The problems of national reconstruction {Montreal: Standing Com. Plans 

 and Propaganda, Canad. Natl. Reconstr. Groups, 1918, 2. ed., pp. 71). — In this 

 pamphlet is published an outline for discussions to be held in Canadian 

 National Reconstruction Groups. It is intended to be preliminary to a report 

 on Canadian reconstruction policy. One chapter relates to land and agricul- 

 ture. Recommendations submitted are stated to be based on Canadian public 

 opinion and on literature, largely of British origin, which is listed in the 

 appended bibliography. 



Agricultural reconstruction, J. Long {Jour. Bath and West and South. 

 Counties Soc., 5. ser., 13 {1918-19), pp. 6-21). — The author describes the way in 

 which necessary increased food production in England depends upon the in- 

 crease of the arable area, the extension of small holdings and allotments, 

 the increase in the number and quality of live stock kept upon improved up- 

 lands, minimum prices for corn, the compulsion of landowners and farmers 

 who are not already doing their duty by the land, the establishment of open 

 markets for the sale of farm produce, the establishment of farm schools for 

 the training of the sons of small farmers at nominal fees, and the reconstruc- 

 tion of village life. 



