78 REPORTS ON INVIJSTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



he had hoped to spend upon it during the summer has been unexpectedly 

 curtailed by the demands of the International Congress of Hygiene and 

 Demography, but this cause of delay will soon be a thing of the past. 



Division II.— AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 



Of the various parts of the report of this division, which are being pre- 

 pared under the direction of President Kenyon L. Butterfield, the introduc- 

 tory chapter on Economic Characteristics of the Agricultural Industry, by 

 Prof. Thomas N. Carver, of Harvard University, was completed some time 

 ago. The chapter on American Agriculture down to 1840 is in the hands of 

 Prof. F. W. Blackmar, of the University of Kansas, who has done consider- 

 able preliminary work, but has been so delayed by the pressure of academic 

 duties that he has been desirous of giving up the work. He has, however, 

 consented to continue and hopes to be able to have the greater part of his 

 material in shape by the end of next year. 



Prof. Henry C. Taylor, of the University of Wisconsin, who is preparing 

 the chapter on the history of agriculture since 1840, reports that the Indus- 

 trial History of the Valley of the Red River of the North (pp. 146), by John 

 Lee Coulter, has been published by the State Historical Society of North 

 Dakota ; and a monograph on the reorganization of agriculture in Georgia, 

 1865 to 1910, by R. B. Brooks, of the University of Georgia, has been 

 handed in. 



The main part of the work on the history of agriculture since 1840 is being 

 conducted in Professor Taylor's research laboratory. Mr. O. E. Baker de- 

 voted practically all of his energy to this work during the past year and Mr. 

 J. I. Falconer has been employed for the coming year. Professor Taylor has 

 tried to supplement the appropriation of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington by income received for partially completed data, for articles, and for 

 the privilege of printing maps. He is assisted at the present time by Mr. 

 L. C. Gray and Mr. J. I. Falconer, both of the University of Wisconsin. 



Prof. Benjam.in H. Hibbard, of Ames, Iowa, who is writing the chapter on 

 the public land policy, has been steadily at work upon his topic and expects 

 to have the manuscript ready by Christmas time. 



Prof. Edward D. Jones is at work on the American Domestic Market since. 

 1840, and has been publishing a series of articles "to serve as a trial of the 

 material." These preliminary studies have appeared in the trade journal 

 entitled "Mill Supplies," and the dates and subjects are as follows : 



Standardization in Modern Commerce, Modern Problems of Price, Dec. 191 1. 



February 191 1. Price Changes, January 1912. 



Buyers' Specifications, April 191 1. The Ideal of a Perfect Market, Feb. 1912. 



Quantity Prices, May 1911. The Marketing of Agricultural Products, 

 The Cancellation of Orders, June 191 1. April 1912. 



Price of Resale and its Control, July 1911. The Cost of Living and Retail Trade, 

 The Relation of Brands and Advertising, July 1912. 



August 191 1. The Principles of Modern Retail Mer- 

 Our System of Weights and Measures, chandising, August 1912. 



September 1911. The Functions of the Merchant, Sep- 

 Our System of Commercial Grading, Oc- tember 1912. 



tober 191 1. 



