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North Dakota, and South Dakota. This program should aid pro- 

 ducers to know the quality and value of their wheat and enable them 

 to market it to the best advantage. The ruling thought is that 

 every effort should be made to secure conditions under which the 

 actual milling values of the wheat will be reflected in the prices 

 received by growers. At the end of the present wheat-marketing 

 season we should be able to appraise fairly well the value of the 

 changes in the inspection rules and regulations and of the educa- 

 tional campaign. 



SHIPPING-POINT INSPECTION. 



The demand for Federal inspection of farm products at jDoints of 

 shipment becomes mqre insistent. Applications for such inspection 

 already have been received from at least 20 States. The department 

 has found it possible to render some service at shipping points, 

 largely in cooperation with the various States, but it is quite impos- 

 sible to comply with requests for such inspection until an additional 

 appropriation becomes available. As most of the cost of this service 

 is defrayed from fees collected, there seems no good reason why 

 ample appropriations should not be madfe. In the case of inspection 

 at receiving points, for example, which has" been longer established, 

 the department turned into the Treasury during the past year fees to 

 the amount of $128,000. The total appropriation for this inspection 

 is $175,000. It is expected that both receiving-point and shipping- 

 point inspection service will be largely self-supporting through the 

 fees received, but as these fees go direct to the Treasury, appropria- 

 tions must be made to the department. Such inspection is of great 

 "i'alue to both producers and consumers. 



MARKET NEWS SERVICE. 



Some extensions of the market news service have been made 

 through cooperative agreements with the States, whereby the latter 

 pay the expenses involved. Insistent demands have come for a con- 

 siderable extension of this service, but have been denied because of 

 lack of funds. It has been possible, however, to disseminate market 

 information much more widely than heretofore through the use of the 

 radio stations of the Post Office and Navy Departments. At designated 

 hours each day market reports are furnished to radio stations at 

 Washington, Omaha, North Platte, Nebr. ; Rock Springs, Wyo. ; 



