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patriarchal conditions that still prevail in many parts, reminiscent in many 

 respects of mediaeval England, and the feudal system. We learn on p. '25 

 that there are no fewer than 59,650 male and 4,135 female small holders, 

 known as torpare, who correspond with the mediaeval villein. In certain 

 districts the crofts are owned by the occupiers, but in the eighteen more 

 southerly counties of Sweden, 33 per cent, are let to persons who undertake 

 as part of the duties of their tenure to carry out a certain number of days' 

 work on the landlord's farm. The system, however, is disappearing, as might 

 be supposed, in favour of a money rent. Again, there are a body of farm 

 servants, known as statare, who, instead of being fed in the house of their 

 employer receive a food allowance which they consume at home. Many of 

 these, however, have commuted these allowances for an allotment of land and 

 fodder for their cow. As is pointed out in the pamphlet, the number of kinds 

 of agricultural labour is great, and while one type will prevail in one district 

 it can hardly be found in another. The variations are due chiefly to the size 

 of the holdings, and the conditions, principally climatic, under which the 

 industry is carried on. The whole book deserves careful study by all who 

 are interested in the conditions of agricultural labour in foreign countries. 



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ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Agriculture, General and Miscellaneous. 



Russell, E. J. — Soil Conditions and Plant Growth. (4th Edition.) [The 

 Eothamsted Monographs on Agricultural Sciences.] (406 pp.) London : 

 Longmans, Green & Co., 1921, 16s. [63.115; 63.161.] 



Haas, P. and Hill, T. G. — An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant 

 Products. Vol. I. On the Nature and Significance of the Commoner 

 Organic Compounds of Plants. (3rd Edition.) (414 pp.) London : 

 Longmans, Green & Co., 1921, 16s. [58.11; 54(02).] 



Bosanquet, R. C. — The Beginnings of Botany : Some Notes on the Greek 

 and Eoman Herbalists. (20 pp.) Edinburgh : Neill & Co., Ltd., 1919. 

 158(04).] 



Ever all, Writ.— Farmers' Account Book. (4th Edition, revised.) (50 pp.) 

 Published bv the Author, Exchange Offices, Shrewsbury, 1921, 10s. 6d. 

 .[657.] ' . 



Game and Heather-Burning (Scotland) Committee. — Report of the Com- 

 mittee with the Minority Eeport. (35 pp.) London : H.M. Stationery 

 Office [Cmd. 1401.] 1921, 6d. net. [343.771; 63.26; 63.142.] 



Royal Commission cm the Importation of Store Cattle. — Eeport of the 

 Commissioners. (15 pp.) [Cmd. 1139.], 2d. net. 



Proceedings before the Commission, Minutes of Evidence and 

 Appendices. (605+LXXIV pp.) [Cmd. 1541.], 35s. net. London: 

 H.M. Stationery Office, 1921. [63.6: 38:382.] 



Salter, M. de Carle S.— The Eainfall of the British Isles. (295 pp.) 

 London : University Press, 1921, 8s. 6d. [551.5.] 



Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. — Statistical Supplement to 

 the Final Eeport of the Nitrogen Products Committee of the Ministry 

 of Munitions. (22 pp.) London : H.M. Stationery Office, 1920, Is. net. 

 [63.1671; 668.6.] 



Merchandise Marks Committee. — Eeport to the Board of Trade. (16 pp.) 

 London : H.M. Stationery Office [Cmd. 760.], 1920, 2d. net. [343.53(b).] 



Plant Diseases. 



Sanders. T. W. — Fruit Foes. (Ill pp. & 27 coloured plates.) London : 

 W. H. & L. Collingridge, 1921, 4s. [63.24-41; 63.27-41.] 



Dairying and Food, General. 



Richards, Miss I. — Modern Milk Goats. [Lippincott's Farm Manuals. 

 (271 pp. ^ Philadelphia & London : J. B. Lippincott Co., 1921, 12s. 6d. 

 [63.638.] 



