REFERENCES 185 



15. Explain briefly the Federal Reserve System, and in detail the Trade 



acceptance. 



16. On a map locate the 12 Federal Land Banks. 



17. What is the average size of a loan? 



18. Locate the Joint Stock Land Banks. 



QUESTIONS SUGGESTED BY THE TEXT 



1. Show how land laws in New Zealand, designed to help the poor, helped 



the rich. Show whether it is probable or improbable that our Federal 

 Farm Loan Act will make the rich farmer richer and the poor farmer 

 poorer. 



2. Examine the records of your local Farm Loan Association, and determine 



the classes of borrowers, and the purposes for which they borrowed. 

 Show the individual benefits received. Show the social benefits (or 

 . injury, if any). 



3. Show the possibilities and the limitations of the North Carolina Credit 



Union plan. Explain failure of credit union idea in 5 states. 



4. Secure from your local banker samples of trade acceptances. 



REFERENCES 



1. "Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Credit in Europe, secured by 

 the American and United States Commissions, 1913," 63 Cong. 1 Sess. Sen. 

 Doc. 214, same part 2. 



2. CAHILL, J. R. : "Report to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries of 

 an Enquiry into Agricultural Credit and Agricultural Cooperation in Germany, 

 with some notes on German Live-stock Insurance," London, 1913. 



3. "Evolution of Credit and Banks in France." Report of National 

 Monetary Commission. 61 Cong. 2 Sess. Sen. Doc. 522. 



4. "Federal Farm Loan Board, Washington. First Annual Report, 1918. 

 Annually thereafter." See also circulars issued irregularly by same Board. 



5. "German Bank Inquiry, National Monetary Commission Report," 

 61 Cong. 2 Sess. Sen. Doc. 407. 



6. HERRICK, MYRON T.: "How to Finance the Farmer Private Enter- 

 prisenot State aid," 64 Cong. 1 Sess. Sen. Doc. 396. 



7. Banker and Farmer: Dealers in Pork and Beans. Outlook, New 



York, May 2, 1917, p. 21. 



8. AND INGALLS, R.: "Rural Credits Land and Cooperative," 



New York, 1914. 



9. "Miscellaneous Articles on German Banking. Report of National 

 Monetary Commission." 61 Cong. 2 Sess. Sen. Doc. 508. 



10. MOPMAN, JAMES B.: "The Principles of Rural Credit," New York, 

 1915. 



11. WEIR, E. A.: "Rural Credit in Western Canada." Grain Growers 

 Guide, Winnipeg, March 26, 1919, p. 25. 



12. WOLFF, HENRY W.: "Cooperative Credit for the United States." 

 New York, 1917. 



13. "People's Bank," London, 1910. 



14. "Cooperation in Agriculture," London, 1914. 



15. International Institute of Agriculture, Rome; International Review 

 of Agricultural Economics: Italy "National Conference of Rural Banks 

 Work of the Italian Federation," May, 1919, 241-250; Roumania "Agricul- 

 tural credit," May, 1917, 49-63; Germany '" Landschaf t of Piosen, 1914 to 

 1916," Dec. 1917, 1-9. "Raiffeisen Federation of Heuwed in 1914-1915," 

 Feb., 1917, 1-14; March, 1917, 1-11. Austria-Hungary "Agricultural Credit 

 in Bosnia and Herzegovina," Feb., 1917, 55-67; Denmark April, 1911, Jan., 

 1913; Feb., 1914; Jan., 1916; Jan., 1917. Russia" Popular Cooperative 



