190 ANNUAL. REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



confidently hoped that our contact with the Bureau of the Census 

 will finally result in a decennial volume on farm population in which 

 the tabulation will be by counties for the whole United States. 



ANALYSIS OF COUNTIES INTO PRIMARY GROUPS. 



Five counties in different States have been analyzed. Two of these 

 studies have been published by the State colleges cooperating. The 

 study of Boone County, Mo., is now complete, and has been submitted 

 to the Missouri Experiment Station for bulletin publication. 



FUNCTION OF FARMERS' TRADE AND SERVICE CENTERS. 



Three studies have been under way in Louisiana, Minnesota, and 

 Wisconsin regarding the function of farmers trade and service cen- 

 ters. Two are finished, Louisiana and Minnesota. The Louisiana 

 stud;^ is published as a research bulletin of Tulane University under 

 the title " Some Factors in Town and Country Relationships." The 

 Minnesota study has been submitted to the Minnesota Agricultural 

 College for a bulletin under the title " Distribution of Goods in 

 Rural Communities." The Wisconsin study has been extended in 

 scope and will continue during the year 1923-24. 



STUDY OF RURAL INSTITUTIONS IN A STATE. 



Three studies of rural institutions have been in progress during the 

 year in Arkansas, Texas, and Virginia. The study in Arkansas is 

 completed and published as a bulletin of Hendrix College under the 

 title " Rural Life in Arkansas at Its Best." 



MOVEMENTS OF FARM POPULATION. 



A small beginning has been made in Wisconsin in a study of 100 

 families who moved from the farm to town. The field study has 

 just been completed and tabulation begun. A study in Kansas has 

 been projected in a county which has lost farm population heavily. 

 It is hoped to make during the next two years a major project of 

 the study of movements and migration of population to and from 

 farms. Nothing short of a United States chart of the seasonal, 

 annual, and periodic migratory movements of population to the farm 

 and from the farm, so as to show the regular currents of population 

 in direction and extent, can finally satisfy the requirements of this 

 project. 



LIVING CONDITIONS OF FARM TENANTS. 



Tlie study of 1,000 farm families in North Carolina, in coopera- 

 tion with the North Carolina governor's commission, has been com- 

 pleted and reached publication, in part, in a University of North 

 Carolina Extension Bulletin, Volume II, No. 6, How Farm Tenants 

 Live. The study of 1,000 farm families in Nebraska has culminated 

 in three bulletins of the agricultural experiment station of the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska : Bulletin 180, Reading Matter in Nebraska Farm 

 Homes; Bulletin 186, The Nebraska Farm Family, Some Land- 

 Tenure Phases; Bulletin 191, Nebraska Farm Homes, a Compari- 

 son of Some Living Conditions of Owners, Part Owners, and Ten- 

 ants. The study of 400 farm families in the Sikeston area of Mis- 

 souri has been completed. 



