CURRENT BULLETIN REVIEWS.

This article focuses on some current bulletin reviews. Under the AAA sign-up for the 1943 Farm Plan Work Sheet, a number of bulletins and circulars have appeared recently which utilize the farm manpower inventory data obtained in January and February of this year. The schedule used for the farm manpower inventory represents a cross between a partial population schedule and a partial employment status schedule with the resulting data naturally presenting many complex problems of analysis and interpretation, particularly with regard to completeness of coverage and comparability with related or similar series. In general, the tabular and graphic material presented in this study is more eloquent than the textual interpretations. Only one-seventh of the farms sampled showed a slight excess of labor needs over labor available, while six-sevenths of the farms had a surplus of available labor, with 45 percent of the farms having a minimum of almost twice as much labor as needed on this group of farms.