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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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Large harvest 3 



Many obstacles encountered 3 



Confronted with falling market 11 



Skrinkage of values 11 



Relative prices of all crops 12 



No single solution for situation 12 



Study of world conditions 13 



Marketing work should be expanded 14 



Costs of marketing 14 



Cooperative marketing 15 



Foreign market information 15 



Combine marketing and crop-estimating work 16 



Crop and live-stock reporting service 17 



Supervision of live-stock markets 18 



Farm management and farm economics 19 



Cost of production 19 



The farm labor problem 20 



Farm finance 20 



Personal credit 21 



The problem of farm ownership 21 



Price of farm lands 22 



Area expanded during the war 23 



Land settlement and colonization 24 



Life on the farm 25 



Shift from country to cities 25 



The real concern of America 26 



The hazards of agricultural production 27 



flant diseases 27 



Insects 28 



The corn borer 28 



The gipsy moth in New Jersey 29 



Emergency fund to combat insect outbreaks 29 



Predatory animals and rodents MO 



Live-stock diseases 30 



Foot-and-mouth disease 31 



Improvement of crop and live-stock production 31 



Valuable new plants introduced 32 



The search for grasses 33 



Improved cultural methods and practices 33 



Effect of daylight on plant growth 34 



Improved types of live stock 34 



Build up our dairy herds 35 



— • Utilization of surplus and waste products 35 



^ Office of Development Work 36 



— The agricultural extension system 36 



Work in behalf of farm women 37 



Uorne economics 37 



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