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Dr. R. S. Woodworth. 

 Adjunct I'l-ofessor of Psychology in Co- 

 lumbia T'niversity and Vice-president 

 of the Section of Anthropology 

 and Psychology. 



■ical Sciriirr and Enciiiicrriiui — Dr. J. 

 F. Haytnrd. U. 8. Coast and Geodetic 

 Smvey. (Icolofij/ and Geography — Dr. 

 R. W. Brock, director of the Canadian 



George F. Swain, 

 Professor of Civil Engineering in the Mass- 

 achusetts Institute of Technology and 

 Vice-president for the Section of 

 Mechanical Science and 

 Engineering. 



( ii'oloiiical Siirvi'v. Zuvloyjj — i'rofcs.sor 

 William E. Ritter, University of Cali- 

 fornia. Botany — Professor D. P. Pen- 

 hallow. ^IcGill University. Anlhroyol- 

 o(jy a)id Psyt'holoyy — Dr. William H. 

 llohr.es, Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 Social and Economic Science — Presi- 

 dent Carroll D. Wright. Clark College. 

 J'liysiology and Experimental Medicine 

 — Professor Charles S. Minot, Harvard 

 INIedical School. Education — Dr. J. E. 

 Rnssell, dean of Teachers College, 

 Cohimbia Universitv. 



THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 

 OF AGRICULTURE 

 Secretary Wilsoin's annual report 

 to the president is a striking document, 

 almost bewildering in the range ana 

 magnitude of the subjects of which it 

 treats. It is not easy to think in bil- 

 lions of dollars and realize what it 

 means to say that the value of onr 

 farm products in 1908 was $7,770,000,- 

 000. This is about three hundred mil- 

 lion dollars above the value in 1907 

 and three billion dollars above the 

 value in 1S99. The increase is, how- 

 ever, in part due to higher prices, as 

 well as to larger ])roduction, and in 

 so far as all prices have risen, even 

 the farmers do not profit. But their 

 wealth has increased greatly in recent 

 years. The six million farms of the 

 country are valued with their buildings 

 and stock at twenty-eight billion dol- 

 lars. While indi\idual bank deposivs 

 have increasetl 12 per cent, in New 

 York State, they have increased 28.5 

 per cent, in Iowa and 334 per cent, in 

 Kansas. The farms- of Kansas, mort- 

 gaged to the east twelve ysars ago, now 

 send their profits to be invested in New 

 York. The exports of agricultural 

 products last year were valued at over 

 one billion dollars, representing a great 

 increase in the wealth of the country, 

 though it is to be feared that it in 

 part means the sale of the fertility of 

 tlie soil. Indian corn is valued at 

 about one third of all farm crops; 



