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A PUBLICATION of much interest has been produced by the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome. It is entitled “Documentation for the European Conference on Rural Life, 1939”, but in spite of its title it contains much of real value and much that has not previously been collected into one volume. Especially valuable is the long chapter on land reclamation and improvement in the different countries of Europe, including statistical information. This leads to a chapter on the improvement of crops, stocks and rural industries, where again various State efforts are discussed. In addition, there are useful summaries of land tenure systems in Europe and a full discussion of the present and potential density of agricultural populations as well as discussion on the economics of farming in different countries. The publication runs to nearly four hundred pages, and has various references to other sources of information.
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European Rural Life. Nature 144, 1008 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441008a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1441008a0