BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. 



FAIRLY complete references have been given in the footnotes to the 

 above pages with regard to the sources that have been drawn upon 

 and the authorities consulted. It remains to add some general remarks 

 concerning the more important of these. 



The various publications of the United States Department of Agriculture l 

 constitute, perhaps, the most complete body of literature in existence dealing 

 with agriculture and the related economic subjects ; and they furnish a unique 

 collection of material concerning the branch of animal industries. Many of 

 these publications naturally have particular or exclusive reference to American 

 conditions, but a number of others deal with world-wide questions or with 

 conditions in selected foreign countries, and furnish reliable statistical material 

 collected in a form that it is impossible to find elsewhere. In this connection 

 attention may be drawn to the wealth of up-to-date material concerning the 

 different aspects of the question of meat supplies, which is contained in Report 

 No. 109, issued from the Bureau of Crop Estimates, and which has been largely 

 drawn upon for the purposes of this enquiry. Some of the earlier publications, 

 though now more or less out of date in some respects, are valuable as throwing 

 light upon the conditions that have led to the present situation. The student 

 finds among the mass of publications issued by the American Department of 

 Agriculture material relating not only to the production, movements and 

 consumption of farm products, but also to the technical side of agriculture, 

 the economics of marketing and the science of nutrition. 



A mass of valuable information concerning miscellaneous features of the 

 production of and the trade in animal and other foodstuffs is to be found 

 scattered up and down in the United States Daily Commerce Reports from 

 1910 to date, and in the British Consular Reports ; this information often 

 throws a useful light upon the inner processes at work that determine the 

 economic geography in one of its phases, of many regions throughout the 

 world. The former of the above-mentioned periodical publications though 

 excellent in their way and for their purpose, and apparently also quite reliable, 

 are apt, owing to their special form, to appear somewhat scrappy, while, 

 concerning the latter, one often wishes that the accounts given were longer 

 and more detailed. The various publications of the Dominions Royal Com- 

 mission (Reports and Minutes of Evidence) contain a veritable mine of 

 information concerning questions of foodstuffs in relation to the self-governing 

 parts of the Empire and incidentally also to the United Kingdom. 



The geographical factor naturally receives attention in miscellaneous 

 articles in the ordinary geographical reviews, such as the Journal of the 

 Royal Geographical Society, the American Geographical Review, and the 



1 Those that have more especial bearing upon the subject of the present 

 enquiry are the Bulletins of the Bureau of Animal Industry, of the Bureau of 

 Statistics, of the Department of Agriculture, and of the Office of Experiment 

 Stations ; the Farmer's Bulletins and various numbered Circulars and Re- 

 ports ; and the Animal Industry Reports and numerous special articles in 

 the Yearbooks of Agriculture, 



