480 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



To the Bureau of Animal Industry in tick eradication and dairy 

 work. 



To the Bureau of Plant Industry in plant breeding, disease, farm 

 management, and demonstration work. 



To the Post Office Department in the location of rural delivery 

 routes. 



To the Department of Justice and the courts in cases arising out 

 of damage suits and in mineral-land cases. 



BOARDS OF TRADE, MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES, AND BUSINESS ORGANIZA- 

 TIONS. 



Such local organizations frequently ask for and use the results of 

 the soil surveys for the encouragement of more profitable agricul- 

 tural development of the surrounding territory and as a means of 

 attracting a desirable class of farmers and farm labor for the up- 

 building of agriculture and the betterment of trade conditions. 



RAILWAYS, REAL-ESTATE COMPANIES, AND COLONIZATION ORGANIZATIONS. 



The soil surveys are of value to railroads in giving reliable and 

 impartial information with regard to the soils and agricultural pos- 

 sibilities of the territory through which the lines run; in showing 

 them lines of agricultural development which they can foster for 

 the fuller development of the country and the increase of their own 

 revenues. 



The surveys are of value to real estate companies in that they give 

 an impartial and authoritative basis for dealing in lands, which can 

 be obtained in no other way. They tend to steady business and pre- 

 vent unjust and unlawful speculation. 



The surveys are of value to colonization organizations, as well as 

 to the railways, in furnishing exact and reliable bases for the intel- 

 ligent settlement of communities, particularly in placing the large 

 number of farmers reaching our shores from foreign countries 

 through the Immigration Service. These people are particularly in 

 need of reliable information regarding localities where they can 

 settle and take up agricultural industries with which they are rea- 

 sonably familiar. The farmers of southern Italy, of northern Italy, 

 of France, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Ireland, and other countries 

 have certain traits and characteristics and have acquired habits and 

 adaptabilities which can be successfully applied to certain soil types 

 and certain conditions, and are likely to be unsuccessful unless these 

 conditions are approximately fulfilled. 



BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, ATTORNEYS, AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN 



LOCAL VALUES. 



The soil surveys are of value to financial institutions in that they 

 give reliable and impartial information as to the soil and agricultural 

 opportunities of the areas surveyed. Several real estate companies 

 have reported that purchasers invariably require to know the location 

 on the soil map of the farms which are offered to them for sale. In 

 the same way financial institutions free to loan money on mortgages 



