BUKEAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS. 



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Agricultural Finance. ■ — 



V. N. Valgren. 

 Rural Private Finance. 

 Rural Public Finance. 

 Agricultural Insurance. 

 Rural Public Utilities. 



Statistical and Historical 

 Research. — O. C. Stine. 

 Foreign Competition and 



Demand. 

 Production Statistics. 

 Market Statistics. 

 Agricultural History. 

 Transportation. 

 Graphics. 



GENERAL DIVISIONS. 



Agricultural Coopera- 

 tion. — L. S. Tenny. 



Economics of Coopera- 

 tion. 



Statistics of Coopera- 

 tion. 



Legal Phases of Coopera- 

 tion. 



Farm Population and 

 Rural Life. — 

 C. J. Galpin. 



Rural Population Statis- 

 tics. 



Population Aspects of 

 Rural Community 

 Buildings. 



Farmers 

 Living. 



Standard of 



Land Economics. — 

 L. C. Gray. 

 Land Resources and 



Utilization. 

 Land Reclamation Sale 



and Settlement. 

 Farm Labor. 

 Land Tenure. 

 Land Values. 

 Negroes and the Land. 



Division of Informa- 

 tion. — J. C. Marquis. 



Editorial. 



Periodicals and Press 

 Service. 



Ifadio News Service. 



Exhibits and Motion Pic- 

 tures. 



^Market News Research. 



This organization now comprises a Washington office with 990 

 employees and a field organization including some 148 branch offices 

 of various types in 79 cities including 936 workers. The work of 

 this organization is assembled around the main artery of communi- 

 cation, the leased wire system, which at the end of the fiscal year 

 included 3,300 miles of leased wire extending from Boston in the 

 East, to Minneapolis in the Northwest, and Austin, Tex., in the 

 Southwest. On July 1 this system was extended to include Denver,, 

 Salt Lake City. Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Port- 

 land in the West, and later to Atlanta in the Soutli. 



Together with the movable field forces which include individual 

 investigators, field statisticians, and special survey parties, the 

 bureau now has contacts through its own staff with every important 

 agricultural industry. Through the consolidation into a single 

 bureau, the facilities of the leased wire, formerly utilized for market 

 news only, have been made available for the dissemination of crop 

 and livestock estimate information. Supplementing the leased wire, 

 the system of radio broadcasting, primary and secondary, provides 

 communication with all important agricultural sectionsr of the 

 country. The utilization of this organization is sliown in detail in 

 the descriptions of divisional activities which follow. 



DIVISION OF FARM MANAGEMENT. 



H. R. ToixEY, In Charge. O. A. Juve, Cost Accomitant. 



Farm Practice, and Types of Farming, W. J. Spillman ; Organization of South- 

 ern Farms, C. L. Goodrich ; Farm Business Analysis, H. W. Hawthorne ; 

 Farm Incomes, S. W. Mendum ; Farm Power, L. A. Reynoldson and J. W. 

 Tapp. 



The Division of Farm Management has studied farm problems 

 with the individual farmer constantly in mind. Its staff is com- 

 posed of men of broad experience in farm operation. Its field con- 

 tacts are with individual farmers, whose experience under observed 

 conditions is recorded and analyzed for the purpose of supplying 

 to farmers the most serviceable methods and ideas gleaned from 



