786 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



then obtainable, were made and pnblislied in the Supplement to the 

 Crop Reporter for December, 1011; and the revision of the bureau's 

 estimates regardin*? live stock, based on census figures, was published 

 in the Crop Keporter for February, 1912. 



THE CROP REPORTER. 



The Crop Eeporter is an ei^ht-page publication issued monthly 

 under the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, in which are 

 published the monthly reports of the Bureau of Statistics, with 

 other current statistical information regarding agriculture, including 

 farm values and market prices of important products and data rela- 

 tive to crops in foreign countries. The Crop Keporter, of which 

 175,000 copies are printed each month, is sent to all Avho request it. 

 It is circulated principally among farmers, including the bureau's 

 voluniary correspondents, throughout the United States. 



Among the subjects of interest considered in the Crop Reporter 

 during the past fiscal year may be mentioned the following: ''In- 

 terpretation of Crop Condition Figures;" " AVheat Movement from 

 Farms, Monthly, 1910-11;" "Per Capita Imports and Exports of 

 Agricultural Products — by Decades Since 1866;" "Monthly Move- 

 ment of Grain;" " Sugar-Beet Production in United States, 1910;" 

 "Durum AVheat Exports, 1910-11;" "Cost of Producing Barley;" 

 "Bushels of Weight and Bushels of Volume;" "Wheat Prices in 

 England, Six Centuries, 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 Ele- 

 vators ; " " 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 Farm Products, 1866-1911 ; " " Testing of Germinating 

 Quality of Corn ; " " Causes and Extent of Cotton Damage ; " " Rail- 

 roads and Agriculture." 



DIVISION OF DOMESTIC CROP REPORTS. 



To this division is consigned the great mass of data contained in 

 the reports of voluntary correspondents. All such returns are here 

 distributed by States, and subsequently by districts or counties, for 

 comparison and detection of errors, after which they are tabulated 

 and their averages determined. 



During the fiscal year 1912 improvements in the methods of secur- 

 ing and tabulatin<>- information regarding crop estimates have been 

 made. A new basis for ascertaining a requisite number of corre- 

 spondents in minoj- subdivisions of States has been adopted, namely, 

 the number of farms in each county as shown by the census of 1910, 

 which permits of a variation in the number of crop correspondents 

 to cori'espond more exactly with the agricultural importance of the 



