92 ANNUAL REPOT^TR OF DEPARTMENT OF AORICULTURE. 



met is through carefully made estimates. It is not claimed that the 

 estimates of the Bureau of Statistics arc strictly accurate; no estimate 

 can be. They are given as the best available data, represeniing the 

 fullest information obtainable at the time they are made. 



If the requirement that an agricultural census be taken hereafter 

 every five years is carried into effect, the estimates of this bureau 

 can be checked up and adjusted to the facts as disclosed by the quin- 

 quennial enumerations and new bases for estimates be provided every 

 five years. 



THE CROP REPORTER. 



The Crop Reporter, of which 175,000 copies are printed each 

 month, is sent to all who request it. It is circulated principally 

 among farmers, including the bureau's voluntary correspondents, 

 throughout the United States. 



Among the subjects of interest considered in the Crop Reporter 

 during the past fiscal year ma}^ be mentioned the following: " Inter- 

 pretation of the crop-condition figures"; ""Wheat movement from 

 farms, monthly, 1910-11 "; "Per capita imports and exports of agri- 

 cultural products, by decades, since 1866 " ; " Monthly movement of 

 grain"; "Sugar-beet production in United States, 1910"; "Durum 

 wheat exports, 1910-11"; "Cost of producing barley"; "Bushels of 

 weight and bushels of volume"; "Wheat prices in England, six cen- 

 turies, chart"; "Cost of producing potatoes in United States, by 

 grand divisions"; "Hop movement in United States, 1902-1911"; 

 "Causes of crop damage, 1909-10"; "Stocks of potatoes^ January 

 1, 1912"; "Seedtime and harvest"; "Quantity of wheat and oats 

 sown per acre, by States"; "Wheat supply and distribution, by 

 States"; "Wheat consumption per capita, by countries"; "Egg 

 receipts at seven markets annually since 1891 " ; " Live-stock receipts 

 at seven markets annually since 1900"; " Farm wages, 1911 "; " Stock 

 of wheat in interior mills and elevators"; "Length of service of 

 crop correspondents " ; " High prices and crop production " ; "Apple 

 .shipments on important railroads"; "Index numbers of production 

 per capita and prices of important fann products, 1866-1911"; 

 " Testing of germinating quality of corn " ; " Causes and extent of 

 cotton damage " ; " Railroads and agriculture." 



nmSION OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBU'nON. 



This division conducted an investigation during the last fiscal year 

 concerning the economic results of cold storage and the relationship 

 of cold storage to prices. The aggregate information obtained in 

 this investigation constitutes, in variety and mass, much the largest 

 body of facts concerning this business in its economic aspect that has 

 been collected. 



