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292 OF BOOK.g give credit societies are useful come in contact with real facts reliance on xvhat the members may say, quitlea lose their value if they are not We xvould recommend the preparation of flour mills and aerated water factories. Visits were also paid to tl?e various industrial concerns like the Fruit Preserving Company o! Mnzaffarpore, the Tirhoot Moon Brigton inetcry o! Mehsi and the Lime Works at Dehri. Reports of the actual working of the village co-opera- only if care is taken to instead of placing a full since such no- carefully sifted. a q?estionair,'? for the purpose. The nine family budgets published give evidence of an economic enquiry of practical nature. We are inclined to think that a more detailed and comprehen- sive elaquiry would be desirable even though the number is limited to fewer families. There is still 'much room for improvement in the preparation of the family budgets, and if oar suggestion ? regarding prefacing each budget by indicating the methods o! collection had been acted on, the results would have beee more satisfactory. We are still in the dark as to how annual expenditure or annual income were ascer- tained and what special data were used for the purpose. It would be an improvement i[ the village sta.tistics were to be given in a more detailed form; for e..xample the money values of exports and imports of the village Mahen- darnagar (page 87) do not throw any light whatsoever on the commodities exported or importedna piece of infor- mation which would be of economic value. We are glad to notice however that an additional instruction has been embodied in the appendix regarding the stating of the fa?t whether the family budgets are typical of a particular chgss. We may again congratulate Professor E.A. Horne---the chairman o[ the Society--and the members, for the in- creasing success and popularity o[ a society that is doing such useful work in Indian Economies. See review of Sixth Annual lieport, I. J. E. Vol. I P,?rt a, page I?8?.