302 AisrisruAL keports of department of agriculture. 



Miscellaneous : 



Alsike clover growing. ' 



Area covered by reports of voluntary correspondents. ] 



Commercial fertilizer sold in cotton States. I 



Composite crop conditions, monthly, 1910-1916. j 



European and United States agi-iculture compared. ! 



Fertilizer, application in cotton States. 



Firewood, use on farms. | 



Foodstuffs, production, consumption, and trade in. 

 Garlic, commercial acreage. 

 Grain crops, method of gathering. 



Hemp production. 1 



Increase of population of United States compared with increase in produc- 

 tion of 12 leading crops. 

 Index figures of crop yields. 

 Large crop yields per acre. 



Materials used to make alcoholic liquors in United States, 1915-16. 

 Number of gas tractors in commission on farms. 

 Orange and grapefruit crop. 

 Peanut acreage. 

 Philippine fiber crops, 1915. 

 Production, price, and value changes. 

 Sizes of family and farming in Iowa County, Wis. 

 Trend of farm prices and yield per acre of crops combined. 

 Wages of male farm labor. 

 World production of important crops. 



INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE. 



Twenty-four regular reports on crops of the United States were 

 made by cable and mail to tlie International Institute of Agriculture 

 at Rome, Italy, and statistical tables were contributed to the year- 

 book of the institute. In addition to printed reports issued by the 

 institute, there were received during the year 16 cablegrams relating 

 to crop production in the adhering countries of the world, which 

 were interpreted and presented to the press through the Office of 

 Information. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



Twelve numbers of the Monthly Crop Eeport were issued during 

 the year, aggregating 140 quarto pages of estimates and agricultural 

 statistics. 



Two hundred and five statistical tables were preiDared for publica- 

 tion in the department yearbook for 1916. 



The following department bulletins were published : 



No. 473. — Production of sugar in the United States and foreign countries. 

 No. 483. — Statistics of fruits in principal countries. 



No. 485. — Apples: Production estimates and important commercial districts 

 and varieties. (Prepared in cooperation with the P>ureau of Plant Industry.) 

 No. 514. — Wheat, yields per acre and prices, by States, 1866-1915. 

 No. 515. — Corn, yields per acre and prices, by States, 1866-1915. 



An article was contributed to the department yearbook for 1916 

 on the development and localization of truck crops in the United 

 States. 



The following manuscripts were submitted just before the close of 

 the fiscal year 1917 : 



Potatoes: Acreage, production, foreign trade, supply, and con- 

 sumption, by George K. Holmes ; and Geography of wheat prices, by 

 L. B. Zapoleon. 



