592 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



Percentage of total male l)readwinners of the same age engaged in agriculture. 



Foreign born, 

 white. 



Native white, for- 

 eign born parent- 



Fecundity of immigrant women, J. A. Hill and J. H. Parmelee {XJ. S. 

 Senate, 61. Cong., 2. Sess., Doc. 282 {1911), pp. 755-8^6).— This investigation, 

 based upon the census returns for 1900, brings out, among other facts, that 

 women in cities bear fewer children than those in the rural districts. The 

 variations are illustrated in the following table : 



Average number of children born to women under Jf5 years of age, married 1 to 



19 years. 



Nativity. 



Average number of children bom. 



Ohio. 



Cleve- 

 land. 



Rural 

 counties. 



Minnesota. 



Minne- Rural 

 apolis. I counties. 



Native white of native parentage 

 White of foreign parentage 



First generation 



Second generation 



1.6 

 3.0 

 3.4 

 2.2 



2.4 

 3.1 



3.5 

 2.9 



2.4 

 3.8 

 4.0 

 3.4 



3.4 

 5.2 

 5.5 

 4.7 



Comparative fecundity of women of native and foreign percentage in the 

 United States, J. A. Hill {Quart. Pubs. Amer. Statds. Assoc, n. ser., 13 {1913), 

 1^0. 104, PP' 583S04). — The data contained in this article are noted above. 



The labor problem, J. Lambie {Scot. Farmer, 22 {1914), No. 1099, pp. 83- 

 85). — After noting the changes that have taken place in Scotland between the 

 land owning class and the agricultural laborer the author calls attention to 

 the various schemes for Improving the laborer's position. Data are given show- 

 ing the average earnings of agricultural laborers in England and Scotland from 

 1860 to 1899. 



[Land mortgage reform enacted by "Wisconsin] {Orange Judd Northwest 

 Farmstead, 12 {1914), No. 6, p. 162). — In Wisconsin a land mortgage associa- 

 tion may be formed by no fewer than 15 adults with a capital stock of not less 

 than $10,000. It may take as security for loans a first mortgage upon agri- 

 cultural lands, forest lands, or lands occupied by dwellings within the State, 

 at not to exceed 65 per cent of the value if improved, or 40 per cent if wholly 

 unimproved. " No single loan shall exceed 15 per cent of the company's capital 

 and surplus. All such farm mortgages shall contain provisions for proper soil 



