REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE OFFICE OF FARM 



MANAGEMENT. 



UNITED States Depart:ment of Agriculture, 



Office of Farm Manageimext, 



Washington J D. C .^ August 20^ 1919. 



Sir: I am submitting herewith the annual report of the Office of 

 Farm Management for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919. 

 Respectfully, 



H. C. Taylor, Chief. 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Reorganization of the Office of Farm Management in accordanco 

 with a plan determined upon in a conference on reorganization held 

 early in the present calendar year has now progressed so far that 

 work is being inaugurated along the neAv lines of investigation pro- 

 vided for in the revised outline of projects. The office enters the new 

 fiscal year Avith the preliminaiy work in this regard well in hand. 



Under the plan adopted, the field of research work covered by the 

 office has been divided into seven sections, as follows : 



1. Cost of production. 



2. Farm organization. 



3. Farm financial relations. 



4. Farm labor. 



.5. Agricultural history and geography. 



G. Land economics (including land ownership and tenancy). 



7. Farm life studies. 



Cost of production studies along the lines suggested by a com- 

 mittee appointed by the Secretary to make recommendations in this 

 regard have begun under the direction of Mr. F. W. Peck. Mr. Pe?k 

 is also directing, temporarily, the work in farm organization. Dr. 

 L. C. Gray, in charge of land economics, has outlined a series of in- 

 quiries in land ownership and tenancy, land settlement and coloniza- 

 tion, and land policies. Farm life studies have been inaugurated 

 under the direction of Dr. C. J. Galpin. Of the remaining sections. 

 Agricultural History and Geography is identical with the old sec- 

 tion of Flistory and Distribution of Farm Enterprises; that of Farm 

 Financial Relations is being established by transfer of existing 

 groups from the Bureau of Markets; and that of Farm Labor re- 

 mains to be organized. 



Giving to the fact that practically^ all the research work done dur- 

 ing the past year was done under the old plan of organization, the 

 following detailed report of i)rogress, for the most part, is arranged 

 according to the old classification. 



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