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ANNUAL REPORTS OP DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



steadily and without publicity or the inspiration that comes from 

 large bodies of men working together, has done as much to insure the 

 winning of the war against the military despotism of Europe as any 

 other one factor. 



All the* effort that has been made by the Federal Department of 

 Agriculture, by the State colleges of agriculture and experiment 

 stations, and by other State and national agencies since the United 

 States entered the war would have been of no avail without the eflFec- 

 tive, the efficient and patriotic service of the American farmer. It 

 is the special function of the Bureau of Crop Estimates to record and 

 p,ublish the acreage planted and the crops harvested by the farmers 

 of the United States, and it therefore seems appropriate at this time 

 that the Bureau should record its estimate of their great contribution 

 to the winning of the war. 



