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ress of the work has been very satisfactory. Thtre appears to be 

 no doubt that the few infections occurring in South Carolina and 

 Georgia have been located and eradicated, so that further work in 

 these States will not be necessary. The extent of the disease in 

 Florida, where the citrus industry is of great magnitude, has been 

 very greatly reduced. In that State, where the total number of 

 properties found to be infected was 479, scattered through 22 coun- 

 ties, the number remaining under quarantine has been reduced to 47. 

 Only 15 canker-infected trees were discovered during the first six 

 months of 1918. The malady is of such highly infectious and viru- 

 lent nature, however, that it will be necessary to continue the work 

 in all the citrus-growing areas of the State for some time after the 

 orchards apj)ear to be clean in order to prevent the possibility of 

 outbreaks from any latent or inconspicuous infection that might have 

 escaped the observation of the forces. In Alabama, Mississippi, 

 Louisiana, and Texas it is believed that any further seriously de- 

 structive outbreaks of canker can be prevented. 



CROP ESTIMATES. 



The Bureau of Crop Estimates rendered service of great value to 

 the country by its regular monthy and annual crop reports and by 

 its special inquiries for country-wide information relating to particu- 

 lar phases of agriculture urgently needed for immediate use by 

 the Government. It systematically arranged and translated into 

 American units probably the most complete collection of data in the 

 world relating to the agriculture of foreign countries. Since the 

 beginning of the European war, and more especially since the entry 

 of the United States, it has compiled many statistical statements 

 regarding crop and live-stock production, imports, exports, per 

 capita consumption, and estimated stocks on hand in foreign countries 

 for the Department, the Food Administration, and the War Trade 

 Board. 



The Monthly Crop Reports, which include current estimates of 

 acreages planted and harvested, growing condition, forecasts and 

 estimates of yield per acre, total production and numbers of different 

 classes of live stock, farm prices, stocks of grain remaining on farms, 

 farm wages, and progress of farm work, were especially valuable. 

 Upon the information contained in them was based much of the 



