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The article presents information on various titles and abstracts of papers. The paper "The Production of Alfalfa in Nebraska As Related to Geographic Environment," discusses the climatic and soil habitat, effects of climatic variations, harvesting methods, marketing and monetary returns. The other abstracts are "The Apple Industry of Calhoun County Illinois," "The Localization of the Cotton Industry in Lancashire," "Geographical Survey of the Green Field, Massachusetts, Area."

Presents the abstracts of papers presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers on April 17-21, 1960. Sample study of land use in Santa Fe Valley, Florida; Measurements of manufacturing; Geographic work of Lewis Evans; Teaching marketing geography by the case method; Cattle in Spanish Florida, 1513-1763; Functions of the agricultural colony in the Dominican Republic.

Presents several abstracts related to geography. "The Morphology of Estuarine Meanders in the Chesapeake Bay Area," by Frank O. Ahnert; "A Method of Regional Classification Applied to Agriculture in Iraq," by Ali M. Al-Maiyah; "The Evolution of a Wild Landscape and Its Persistence in Southern California," by Homer Aschmann.

Presents abstracts of articles related to geography as of March 1933. "Agricultural Migration and the National Welfare"; "Geographic Forces in the Development of the American Sugar Beet Industry"; "The Highlands of Guatemala".

The paper contains an exploratory effort to analy the factors which determine the effectiveness of personal discussion as an extension method. The basic data for the paper consist of an inquiry among a small number of farmers and extension workers, ad hoc observations during a workshop on methods of personal discussion at Wageningen, and experience. The point of departure for an analysis of the extension agent's behaviour in personal discussion is the client's expectations regarding his behaviour. A number of such expectations among Dutch farmers are presented. From these expectations, a number of variables (15) are developed which describe the conditions under which personal discussion occurs. These conditions allow the formulation of a number of sub-roles -- appropriate for the conditions -- which the extension worker can enact in personal discussion. The sub-roles presented are: 1. one who asks for information; 2. one supplying information; 3. one supplying cut and dried advice; 4. one who sustains the client's confidence in what he intended doing anyway; 5. one who helps the client to think rationally; 6. one who helps the client to overcome his emotions. Awareness of such sub-roles will allow the extension worker to play the appropriate one for the conditions which are present and to choose deliberately among the alternatives available. The paper ends with some practical suggestions on how best to conduct a personal discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section provides information on congresses and conventions related to sociology in 1963 and 1964. The Seventh Latin American Congress of sociology will be held in Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota, Colombia on July 14-19, 1964. The congress will be sponsored by the Colombian sociological association. Four specific themes will be discussed: sociology and the national planning; sociology of the agrarian transformations; sociology of the urban and industrial transformations and sociology of education. This section also presents abstracts of papers presented at the Fifty-Eight Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Los Angeles, California on August 26-29, 1963. The papers included were Roman Catholicism and Social Change in Latin America: From Church to Sect, by Ivan A. Vallier, and Religion and Social Change: The Third State in the Application of the Weber Thesis, by Milton Singer. Abstracts of papers delivered at the Twenty-third Annual meeting of the Sociology for the Scientific Study of Religion held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 25-26, 1963, are also presented in this section. The theme of the annual meeting was New Knowledge on Moral and Mystical Dimensions of Religion.

This paper presents, in a modified Weberian framework, an approach to the study of capitalist farmers in the British class structure. Their market situation is principally analysed in terms of the outcome of pressure group activity vis-a-vis the state. A typology is derived for their work situation based upon the degree of market-orientation and the degree of direct involvement in husbandry. This typology can be related to the legitimating strategies which farmers choose to operate over their employees. The analysis of their status situation emphasises the declining coherence of the evaluating criteria on which status is based and illustrates the limitations of existing occupational prestige studies with regard to farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores certain aspects of the phenomena associated with rural modernization in a selected case. It traces the chain of events and changes in attitudes that led to the introduction of tractors and, subsequently, to the problem of 'over-mechanization' of agriculture in a once traditional, relatively isolated, peasant village in southern Germany. An acculturation model is employed for analytical purposes. Diffusion is treated as the necessary condition for technological modernization to occur and the roles and attitudes of initial adopters are explored in detail. Four socio-historical stages are studied: i) presentation, 2) acceptance, 3) integration, and 4) aftermath or repercussions. One unanticipated consequence has been the problem of over-mechanization relative to the productive capabilities of existing land resources. Land is regarded as the only basis for economic security in an uncertain world, and villagers cling to their holdings even though almost all are employed in industry. The use of modern machinery is considered essential. This phenomenon, which may be inefficient on a strictly cost-account basis, may nevertheless be functional in social terms, serving to stabilize a rural society in transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares the agricultural patterns in the immediate umland of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with the crop theory in von Thünen's Isolated State. Although many of the assumptions upon which the Isolated State was built are not met in the study area, several striking empirical parallels can be seen. First, there is a ninety-five square mile eucalyptus forest surrounding the capital city, producing firewood and building material for the city. Even more significant is the shape of the forest which resembles the theoretical patterns suggested by Thünen that resulted from the introduction of an improved transportation surface into the Isolated State along which costs were drastically reduced. Eucalyptus forests are also found around smaller towns over much of Ethiopia in accordance with the idea that the small town in the Isolated State would produce its own land use zones. Vegetable production is found in close proximity to the city although vegetable and milk production do not occur together as suggested by Thünen. It is argued that this practice causes the milk supply of Addis Ababa to fall short of demand. In zones 3, 4, and 5 in the Isolated State, Thünen placed three zones of mixed farming of decreasing intensity. In the equivalent zone in the study area incipient zonation was discovered. A discussion of the problems associated with the Economic Man assumption in a plural society is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the condition of farm labor in American agriculture. The Congressional decision to allow Public Law 78--the Mexican Bracero Program--to lapse resulted in a dramatic shift in public policy. The new policy course is to deny admission to foreign agricultural workers in areas where unemployed domestic workers are available, or under circumstances which would have an adverse effect upon domestic farm wage levels. Dire predictions were made early in 1965 that many crops would rot in the fields and that consumer prices would soar as a result of what the president of the nation's largest farm organization, the American Farm Bureau Federation, termed as a government-created labor shortage which has increased farm costs and made it impossible to harvest a normal crop." This paper contends such charges are not in accord with the fads. For years the real labor situation in American agriculture has been one in which human resources have been squandered. The foreign-labor importation program only served to aggravate an already serious national manpower problem.

This article presents information on convention program of the Southwestern Social Science Association and the American Business Writing Association joint conference, held in April 1955, in Dallas, Texas. Some of papers presented in the meetings on various topics like accounting, agricultural economics, business administration, sociology, government, geography are: "A Well-Informed and Better-Guided Student," by William P. Carr; "Recent Developments in Accounting Research," by Charles T. Zlatkovich; "Course Content and Conduct," by Emerson O. Henke; "The Southern Farmer and Foreign Trade," by M.D. Woodin; "The Southern Farmer and Current Agricultural Legislation and Regulation," by William A. Faught; "A Comparison of Riparian and Appropriated Water Rights," by Wells A. Hutchins; "A Comparison of Land-Value Theories and the Everyday Operation of the Land Market," by Robert L. Tontz; "Geography of the Rainforest of Western Pichincha and Esmeraldas, Ecuador," by Luis Freile; and others.