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Two hundred farm-survey records have been taken in Frederick 

 County, Md., and a study of the data will shortly be offered for publi- 

 cation. A field study has been made in Albemarle County, Va., in 

 cooperation with the office of Rural Organization. 



A tabulation of the survey data secured in 1914-15 in the north 

 Piedmont section of Virginia has been practically completed. 



Studies of a large group of farms in Catawba County, N. C, be- 

 gun several years ago, have been continued. This study is of par- 

 ticular interest in that it brings out the facts with reference to the 

 relative profits from crop farming versus live-stock farming in a 

 region of the South where a large number of both types of farms 

 are found. 



In South Carolina an extensive study has been undertaken of farm- 

 organization and farm-management problems in the Norfolk sandy 

 loam soils of Orangeburg County. The greater part of the time in 

 this region has been spent in tabulating and interpreting the records 

 taken the previous year in Anderson County, S. C. 



In Georgia the extended study undertaken last year in Brooks 

 County has been completed. 



In Alabama and Mississippi the past year has been devoted largely 

 to completing the study of the data secured in the cost of production 

 survey in Coahoma County, Miss. A study has also been made on 

 the cost of establishing the Satsuma and other citrus orchards on the 

 Gulf Coast. 



In Texas a study undertaken last year in the lower Rio Grande 

 trucking section has been completed. A survey was made during the 

 year in Ellis County, Tex. 



In Arkansas and Louisiana extended studies have been made in 

 farm practice in harvesting corn and bur-clover seed and in growing 

 lespedeza. A method has also been worked out for hastening the 

 germination of bur clover by boiling the burs which contain the seed. 



In Oklahoma field studies of two areas have been completed dur- 

 ing the year. These studies were made in cooperation with the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, one of them in the region surrounding the college 

 and the other in west-central Oklahoma. Records from field studies 

 made in north-central Oklahoma and south-central Kansas taken the 

 previous fiscal year have been checked and tabulated. 



NORTH CENTRAL STATES. 



In the North Central States field survey studies have been made 

 during the past year as follows : 



In the northern cut-over districts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and 

 Minnesota on 800 farms; in the muck regions of southern Michigan 

 and northern Indiana, 100 farms. These survey studies have been 

 supplemented by enterprise surveys on 100 farms in Lenawee County, 

 Mich., 25 farms in the northern cut-over district, 25 farms in south- 

 eastern Missouri, and 100 farms in the muck-land district of southern 

 Michigan and northern Indiana. A bulletin dealing with the man- 

 agement of muck-land farms in northern Indiana and southern 

 Michigan has been published. 



An extensive study has been made of the problems of the cut-over 

 lands of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In this study it is 

 shown quite conclusively that the small farm under the present eco- 



