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Farm labor in Virginia, A. Jeffers (South. Planter, 71 {1910), No, 12, pp. 

 1231, 1232). — This article sets forth the conditions which produce a scarcity of 

 farm labor in Virginia. 



The crowding of the rural population, both white and colored, into the towns 

 and cities, which has been going on with the industrial development of Virginia 

 during the past 45 years, is regarded as leading to a scarcity of farm help while 

 increasing the amount of vagrancy. Suggestions are made for the readjustment 

 of the population, particular emphasis being laid on the need for more strin- 

 gent enforcement of the vagrancy law and its adoption and enforcement by town 

 and city authorities. This plan, it is believed, would have a tendency to force 

 the unemployed in cities back to the land. 



[General observations on the employment of casual labor in agricultural 

 districts], R. Farrab (London: Govt., 1909, pp. 22). — This pamphlet gives a 

 description of the conditions under which persons are temporarily employed in 

 the picking of peas and fruits in England, including wages, hours of labor, 

 standard of living, sleeping accommodations, and other economic and social 

 features. The evils of the system are said to be demoralizing to workers and a 

 grave nuisance in the districts whei'e such services are rendered. 



An appendix gives in contrast the police regulations in force durmg the hop- 

 picking season in three districts of Bavaria for the control of the immigrant 

 labor force. 



The International Institute of Agriculture. —Its labors in behalf of eco- 

 nomic bettterment, L. Einaudi (Rome, 1910, pp. 11). — This is an account of 

 the economic service the institute is expected to perform in determining the 

 world supply of crops, and of its labors accomplished in this direction by the 

 returns on wheat production in 1910 for 20 of the principal wheat-producing 

 countries. 



Publications of the Bureau of Statistics (U. 8. Dept. Agr., Div. Puhs. Circ. 

 12, pp. 5). — A list of the publications of this Bureau available for distribution. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The American systena of agricultural education, A. C. True and D. J. 

 Crosby (V. 8. Dept. Agr., Office Expt. 8tas. Circ. 106, pp. 28, pis. 8).— This is a 

 revision of Circular 83, of this Office, previously noted (E. S. R., 21, p. .S97), 

 describing graduate, collegiate, secondary, and elementary educational insti- 

 tutions giving instruction in agriculture. 



African agriculture. — IV, Agricultural education, M. N. Work (8out?i. 

 Workman, 40 (1911), No. 2, pp. 79-87, figs. 7). — This article describes three 

 ways in which instruction in agriculture is being disseminated in Africa, viz, 

 by schools, fairs, and agricultural demonstration work. Brief notes are given 

 on two recently established agricultural schools in Gambia and Sierre Leone, 

 and on agricultural shows held in the Gold Coast in 1909 and in Calabar in 1910. 



Studies of irrigation plants and educational institutions for agricultural 

 engineering in Prussia, C. B. Cablsson (Meddel. K. Landthr. Styr. [Sweden], 

 1910, No. If (151), pp. 50 + VIII). — ^A report of studies made and impressions 

 received during more or less extended visits to these Institutions. 



Where forestry can be studied (Amer. Forestry, 16 (1910), No. 12, pp. 730- 

 733). — Information is given concerning the graduate courses in forestry at Yale, 

 Michigan, Harvard, Minnesota, and Washington universities, the undergraduate 

 college courses at 12 land-grant institutions, 3 other colleges, and 1 special for- 

 est school, and forestry as a subordinate subject in numerous other college and 

 school courses. 



