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carried forward. Work in farm financial relations has been con- 

 cerned with farm loans, credit associations, crop insurance, and the 

 organization of rural telephone systems. A unique study of the 

 national influence of a single farm community has been brought to 

 a close. More than a thousand farm business analysis records have 

 been added to the data on farm organizations on file, and work has 

 been pushed on the analysis and interpretation of the returns of the 

 1920 census with reference to agriculture. 



Cost of production. — Continuing work on the cost of producing 

 beef cattle in the Corn Belt, studies have been carried on in Ne- 

 braska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri-, in cooperation with 

 the State colleges of agriculture in those States. During the summer 

 of 1921 cattle feeding enterprise records were obtained covering 

 14,982 head of cattle, together with complete farm business analysis 

 records for 300 of the farms concerned. In the fall of 1921 five de- 



tailed cost accounting routes, each of about 35 farms, were organized 

 in each of the cooperating States. Work of tabulating the returns 

 from these surveys is now well along toward completion. Prelimi- 

 nary reports of results have been issued covering the work in each 

 State. 



Field work on the cost of producing beef on ranges was begun in 

 January, 1922. Work on the cost of hog production, begun in 1920, 

 has been carried forward, and a study of the cost of producing dairy 

 products has been started in cooperation with the College of Agricul- 

 ture of the UniA^ersity of Wisconsin. In this latter study 277 enter- 

 prise and farm business analysis records have been obtained. In 

 addition detailed cost records are being kept on 60 dairy farms. 



Tabulation of wheat-cost records from 464 farms in the central 

 wheat belt has been completed, a preliminary report issued, and a 

 final report prepared for publication. The second j^ear of a study 

 of the cost of wheat production in the Palouse region has been com- 



