VI CONTENTS 



PART II : INSURANCE AND THRIFT. 



Russia. 



The Business done by Finnish Mutual Societies for Insurance against Fere and 



Mortality among I,ive Stock Tage 33 



§ I. Societies Insuring against Fire, page 33. — § 2. Mutual Societies for Insur- 

 ing I<ive Stock, page 38. 



PART III : CREDIT. 



Germany. 



Prussian I<egislation as to the Rentengtjter and its Results from 1891 



TO 1914 Page 41 



]MiscEi,i,ANEous Information rei,ating to Credit in Various Coun- 

 tries Page 46 



Argentine Republic : i) The " Banco el Hogar Argentiuo " in 1915-1916, page 46. 



2) The Business of the Mortgage Company of the River Plate, I<td. , in 1916, 

 page 47. A 



China : The Functions of the Agricultural and Industrial Banks, page 48. 



PART IV : AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL. 



British India. 



I^and Tenures in the Panjab in their Original Form and as affected by British 



Rule Page 51 



United States. 



The Regulation of the Fruit Trade Page 61 



§ I. The Organization of the Fruit Trade and the Activity of the Office of Markets, 

 page 62. — § 2. The Calif omian Act of 191 5 as to the Fniit Trade, page 64. — 

 § 3. An Effort to standardize the Potato Trade, page 67. 



