702 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



scientific criticism constantly, a work in which many experts in the 

 Bureau of Ph\nt Tnchistry, the Weather liureau, and tlie Office of 

 KxperinientStalions have cooperated with this division. This inves- 

 ti<i;ati()n has resulted in securing much original iiilorniation; and many 

 real discoveries of relations between crop i)lantin<i: and jjrowth on 

 the one hand, and climatic, altitudinal, and latitudinal conditions on 

 the other, which are of fundamental importance to the science of agri- 

 culture, have been made. The first bulletin of this project was 

 nearly completed at the end of the fiscal year. 



BALKAN AGRICULTURE AND FOREIGN TRADE. 



A bulletin on the agriculture and foreign trade in agricultural 

 products of Bulgaria, Koumania, and Servia was included in the 

 work of this division in the fiscal year covered by this report. This 

 investigation treats of topics relating to landholding, agricultural 



f)opulation, live stock, farm implements, area and production of 

 eading crops, especially cereals, and foreign trade in agricultural 

 products. 



WORK FOR 1911. 



The work of this division is of such a character that its future, for 

 the next year, can be indicated with little definiteness. As far as 

 can be foreseen, during the fiscal year 1911 the work of the nineteenth 

 investigation of the w^ages of farm labor will be completed and also 

 the bulletin on the marketing methods of the Pacific coast, an exami- 

 nation of the cost of distributing certain farm products from producer 

 to consumer, a tabulation of the foreign trade of the United States 

 in farm and forest products for 1910, a large amount of work in the 

 agricultural statistics section of the Yearbook for 1910, the comple- 

 tion of another bulletin in the project concerning crop dates, and as 

 much work as possible on various bulletins that are in hand. 



WORK OF THE EDITORIAL DIVISION AND LIBRARY. 



The work of the division during the year consisted, in so far as it 

 can be readily classified, of: (1) Editing ail manuscript prepared in 

 the Bureau for publication, and correcting the proof thereof; (2) 

 compiling comprehensive statistics, for publication in the Yearbook, 

 of the area and production of certain crops in all foreign countries 

 for which data are obtainable; (3) the preparation of reports, for 

 publication each month in the Crop Reporter, on the state of agri- 

 culture in foreign countries, with special reference to the extent of 

 surface under different crops, their current condition, and the yields, 

 when harvested, as reflected b}^ the official publications of the respec- 

 tive governments; (4) the assembling of statistical and other infor- 

 mation and the composition of text for bulletins on the world pro- 

 duction of and trade in cocoanuts and cocoanut products and the 

 world production and trade in coffee; (5) the compilation of statistics, 

 from the records of the Treasury Department, relative to the domestic 



Eroduction of tobacco and the consumption of hops by domestic 

 rewers; (6) answering a part of the requests received by the Bureau 

 from other Departments, other Bureaus of this Department, states- 

 men, economists, statisticians, educators, commercial exchanges, 



