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problems were made in North Carolina in cooperation with the Divi- 

 sion of Farm Population and Rural Life and the State Experiment 

 Station, and a similar study was made in Kansas in cooperation with 

 the Kansas State Experiment Station. Some of the results of previ- 

 ous studies of farm ownership and tenancy have been summarized, 

 illustrated by graphs, and will be published as an article in the Year- 

 book for 1923. 



Studies of the progress of negro land owners made in previous 

 years was continued during the last year, and a report on this sub- 

 ject was begun. This should help to determine when success is most 

 likely in tlie progress of negroes to land ownership. 



RELATION OF LAND INCOME TO LAND VALUATION STUDIED. 



The work on land valuation for the past fiscal year consisted in 

 the preparation of a bulletin entitled Relation of Land Income to 

 Land Value, and in the collection of further data from county 

 records and from farmers. It is a statistical study of the rate of 

 return on investments in farm lands. It should be of considerable 

 value in framing rural-credit policies and developing land appraisal. 



New research projects in land valuation begun last j^ear consisted 

 of two surveys to measure the effect of different factors on land value, 

 such as yield per acre, distance to market, road type, etc. One of 

 these surveys was completed in Indiana last November and the 

 tabulation of this material is now nearing completion. The other 

 w^as begun in Iowa last April in cooperation with the Bureau of 

 Public Roads and the Iowa Agricultural College. Data from these 

 surveys are to be used in connection with all other available data to 

 work out a scientific method of land appraisal and in determining the 

 influence on land values of various types of roads. 



This division has also been collecting data on the trend of land 

 values in order to study the effect on land values of changes in the 

 prices of farm products, rates of interest, improvements, etc. 



CONDITIONS OF FARM LABOR EMPLOYMENT. 



A survey of truck-farm labor was made in New Jersey by a field 

 party in the summer of 1922. Practically 1,100 schedules were col- 

 lected, mostly by canvass, a few by mail. Most of the tabulation of 

 this material has been completed and the manuscript is under way. 



DIVISION OF STATISTICAL AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH. 



Dr. O. C. Stine, Acting, in Charge. 



Foreign Competition and Demand, L. G. Michael. 



Production Statistics, Perry Elliott; Marketing Statistics, L. B. Flohr; Agri- 

 cultural History, N. A. Olsen ; Transportation, J. G. Cross ; Graphics, G. C. 

 Haas. 



G. B. L. Arner, Consulting Statistician. 



The main objective of this division is the assembling of statistics 

 and facts on the domestic and foreign production and stocks of the 

 agricultural commodities, the trend of production, imports and ex- 

 ports movements, and other data relative to the domestic demand and 

 prices. The data laid before the committee on agricultural outlook 



