520 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



terpretation of grades by the trade, and the tentative Federal grades. 

 Numerous charts, graphs, and colored drawings have been made to 

 explain laboratory methods. 



MARKET NEWS SERVICE ON HAY, FEED. AND SEED. 



This project under the immediate direction of G. C. Edler and 

 G. A. Collier obtained information on prices, supply, demand, 

 movement, etc., of hay, feed, and seed by telegram and letter from 

 paid and voluntary correspondents at important producing, dis- 

 tributing, and consuming points. Weekly hay and feed data were 

 obtained regularly from 21 of the principal markets of the country. 

 The commodities included were : Hay — timothy, clover, alfalfa, 

 prairie and grain hay ; straw ; feeds — bran, wheat and rye middlings, 

 cottonseed and linseed meal, hominy and gluten feed, peanut and 

 velvet bean meal, dried beet pulp; seeds — clover (chief varieties), 

 grass, millet, forage sorghum seeds, seed grains. 



Hay and feed information was disseminated daily except Tuesday 

 through the marketgrams and fuller reports on hay, feed, and also 

 seed were furnished weekly to Weather, Crops, and Markets. In 

 addition to the regular weekly review published in Weather, Crops, 

 and Markets from January 1 to June 1 of conditions prevailing in 

 the seed trade at New York, Baltimore, Richmond, Buffalo, Toledo, 

 Chicago, Louisville, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, 

 and Salt Lake City, reports on the outlook, movement, shipment, 

 and prices of seeds were published throughout the summer and fall 

 when the bulk of the seed crops were moving from grower to dealer. 

 Special articles on hay and feed of timely interest to producers, 

 consumers, and dealers were prepared for Weather, Crops, and 

 Markets and the department's press service. 



Only two branch offices, at Chicago and Fort Worth, were operated 

 throughout the year. The Chicago office transmitted detailed re- 

 ports on the Chicago market to the Washington office three or more 

 times a week. The broom corn reporting service was conducted 

 from Fort Worth and from temporary stations in Oklahoma and 

 Texas during the active movement of this crop. 



DIVISION OF COTTON MARKETING. 



The work of the Division of Cotton Marketing, under the super- 

 vision of W. R. Meadows, is divided into the following activities: 



1. Enforcement of the United States cotton futures act, which is divided into 

 three separate projects, as follows : 



(a) Classitication of cotton. 



(b) Future and spot market investigations and cotton price quotations. 



(c) Preparation and distribution of the official cotton standards. 



2. Investigation and demonstration of cotton standards. 



3. Cotton testing. 



4. Cotton marlieting demonstrations. 



5. Cotton handling investigations. 



ENFORCEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES COTTON FUTURES ACT, 



CLASSIFICATION OF COTTON. 



The division leader was assisted in this work by F, W. Knight. 

 In accordance with the amendments of March 4, 1919, to the United 

 States cotton futures act, all cotton delivered on future contracts 



