CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Page. 



1919 acreages and yields 4 



Exports 5 



Values 10 



Progress of American agriculture 10 



Foreign yields also increased IG 



Farm land problems 18 



Expansion of area in farms IS 



Land settlement 21 



Tenancy 22 



Extension of forestry 21 



Necessary steps 25 



Farm management and farm economics 20 



Appropriations required 2S 



Crop and live-stock reporting service 29 



Value of complete estimates 31 



Marketing and distribution 33 



Cooperative associations 34 



Good roads 35 



Troublesome limitations removed 36 



Large results from present Federal law >. ' _l c7 



No additional administrative machinery needed CS 



Proposed change vpould mean loss 41 



Continuation of Federal appropriations 42 



Past action and future steps 42 



Need for broad survey of rural conditions 45 



REPORTS OF CHIEFS. 



Report of the Chiei of th3 Weather Bureau .' 49 



Post-war conditions 49 



Forecast service 52 



River and flood warnings 56 



Stations and observations 58 



Aerological investigations 60 



Telegraph service 61 



Weather Bureau telegraph and telephone lines 62 



Work in climatology 64 



Agricultural meteorology 66 



Instrumentation 67 



Printing and publications 68 



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