FRANCE. 



MISCBI.I.ANEOUS NEWS. 



1. — Agricui^turax sociai, courses. — The idea of the formation 

 of a superior agricultural class by means of agricultural social courses is 

 making progress and is realised in practical forms varying with the needs 

 of the various regions. 



Thus the Union des Syndicats agricoles Vosgiens (Union of the Agricul- 

 tural Syndicates of Vosges) recently, with complete success, organized a week 

 of Agricultural Social Courses at Bazoilles from the 8th. to the 15th. February. 

 These courses were only attended by young farmers already members of 

 the syndicates of their commtmes. In the invitation circular the Presid- 

 ent of the Unions represented to the managers of the syndicates the 

 necessity of recruiting and forming a greater number of collaborators to 

 manage the rural institutions. 



With this object in view, the character of the courses and lectures has 

 been very markedly practical. In the scheme now recognised, which pro- 

 vides for each day two morning courses, a visit of instruction in the after- 

 noon and a third course in the evening, there would also be included a small 

 number of theoretical courses and a whole succession of demonstrations 

 relating to the technique of the associations and farms. Let us note, among 

 these demonstrations, lessons on the bookkeeping of a mutual livestock 

 society and a credit bank, studies on the cost of agricvdtural production, the 

 calculation of the cost price, sale contracts, wages, commissions, transport, 

 all matters of great practical importance for the associations and for good 

 farming. 



(Suiumarised from la Chroniqne sociale de France, of February 2.itli., 1914)- 



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2. — AgricuIvTural labour congress. — The first National Agricultural 

 I^abour Congress organized by the Societe Nationale de protection de la 

 main d'oeuvre agricole (National Society for the Protection of Agricultural 

 Ivcbourers), founded by M. Fernand Davis, will be held in Paris on the 4th. 

 and 5th. December next. 



