BXPI^ANATORY NOTE 



1. The i>resent Table of Contents refers to the twelve numbers of the 

 International Review of Agricultural Economics published from January 

 to December, 191 7, and includes, therefore, all the articles and notes dealing 

 with co-operation, insurance, credit and agricultural economy in general 

 contained in these volumes. 



2. The articles and notes relating to co-operation have been grouped 

 in 2 i classes ; those dealing with insurance are divided into classes ; those 

 which deal i&ith credit into 9 classes ; and those which treat of agricultural 

 economy in general into ij. A complete list of these classes precedes the 

 table. In our classification we have followed the rule of single entry and 

 placed un(ter only one heading those articles and notes which, from the nature 

 of the subject treated, might appear in more than one group. 



As it is not in every case clear why an article or note has been assigned 

 to one group rather than to another, the reader must be prepared to refefHo the 

 several analogous groups in any one of which a particular article or note might 

 appear. A dairymen's co-operative society, for example, might have as its 

 object the protection of the general economic interests of dairy farmers as a 

 class, or simHy the improvement of the methods of production, transport, and 

 sale, or again the purchase and collective use of animals of the special dairy 

 type. An article relating to such a society might appear under various head- 

 ings, according as it dealt more particularly with one or other of tJtese objects. ■ 



3. In each group the articles and notes have been subdivided by countries, 

 following the aphabetical order. For each country the articles are arranged 

 in the chronological order in which they were published. We have added a table 

 giving the classification by countries. 



