Bibliography on Land Utilization, 1918-36

Excerpts from the Introduction: This bibliography has been compiled as a companion volume to the Bibliography on Land Settlement, issued in 1934 by the United States Department of Agriculture as Miscellaneous Publication 172. It contains selected references to the literature on the economic aspects of land utilization and land policy in the United States and in foreign countries, published for the most part during the period 1918-36. Relatively few references to the early land policies of the United States and of the individual States have been included, mainly because a bibliography on this subject is in preparation by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. In the case of foreign countries a greater number of references have been included to material which antedates 1918, because they provide what seems to be an essential background to the more modern literature on the subject. The bibliography is limited to references on land utilization in its broader economic aspects; and much of the literature on special phases of the subject, such as farm management, urban land uses, etc., has been omitted. Only a few references on such subjects as soils and soil erosion, forest shelterbelts, general economic planning, regional planning, and forests and afforestation have been included. Many references to land settlement and resettlement, subsistence homesteads, and agrarian reform are included to supplement those contained in the earlier Bibliography on Land Settlement.