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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



[Vol. 43 



specialized study uf various lields in inaiketing, and the importance to producers 

 of the collection and dissemination of market information, farmers' marketing 

 organizations, standard grades for farm products, and wise legislation in re- 

 gard to marketing practices. 



Report of division of markets and rural organisation in North Caro- 

 lina, W. [{. Camp (North Carolina Sta. Rpt. 1919, pp. 06-85). — This report gives 

 recommendations for the better stoi-ing and marketing of farmers' cotton, basett 

 on information gained by means of warehouse surveys, also findings of market 

 surveys in regard to grain and soy beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, fruits auil 

 vegetables, hogs, beef cattle, and sheep and wool. The adoption of revised 

 State warehouse regulations is noted, and service work of tlie division in pro- 

 moting warehouse and marketing organizations, the formation, incorporation, 

 and supervision of credit unions, classing cotton, grading and inspecting pota- 

 toes, and marketing farm products is reported upon. 



Marketing and pvirchasing demonstrations in the South, B. Knapp (U. ti. 

 Dcpt. A(jr. Yearbook 1919, pp. 205-222, fit). 1). — The place and aim of market- 

 ing and purchasing demonstrations by county agents in the South are de- 

 scribed. Specific examples of the organization of farmers in Mississippi, Ala- 

 bama, and Texas, undertaken by county agents in consultation with marketing 

 specialists in order to demonstrate the advantages of cooperative marketing, are 

 noted. 



How to use market stations, G. B. Fiske (JJ. 8. Dept. Agr. Yearboolc 1919, 

 pp. 91f-llJt, figs. 10). — A detailed explanation is offered of the help and infor- 

 mation otfered by the Bureau of Markets in the way of market quotations, re- 

 ports, and interpretation of market courses. 



AVhy produce insi)ection pays, H. E. Kramer and G. B. Fiske ({7. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Yearbook 1919, pp. 319-334, flo^- 7). — The food products inspection service 

 of the Bureau of Markets is described as a trade insurance in furnishing re- 

 liable disinterested reports valuable to both receivers and shippers on the quan- 

 tity, quality, grade, and condition of interstate shipments. The growth of Fed- 

 ral inspection since November, 1917, is illustrated, and inspection markets are 

 listed and located. 



The Market Reporter (C/. S. Dept. Agr., Market Rptr., 1 (1920), Nos. 22, pp. 

 337-352; 23, pp. 353-368, fig. 1; 24, pp. 353-368; 25, pp. 385-JfOO; 26, pp. 401- 

 416). — These numbers contain weekly and monthly summaries of the move- 

 ment, marketing, and prices of specified commodities, tabulated statistics with 

 interpretative text relating to market eituations for important classes of agri- 

 cultural products, and foreign market information. 



Among leading articles published here there appears one by E. T. Meredith, 

 calling attention to agriculture's part in foreign trade and to the fund of in- 

 formation in regard to agricultural exports and imports gathered by the Bureau 

 of INIarkets of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The importance of our 

 foreign trade is urged. In No. 24 appears the first of a series of articles, which j 

 will review receipts and unloads during the past four calendar years of certain ; 

 fruits and vegetables at a number of large city markets, this one relating par- 

 ticularly to Cincinnati. In No. 2.5 there is a brief article on the importance of' 

 the dairy industry in 1919. 



Prewar crop, estimates in Germany, A. E. Taylor (U. S. Dcpt. Agr. Year- 

 book 1919, pp. 61-68, fig. 1). — Specific evidence is presented to show that the! 

 German ofticial prewar crop estimates have been exaggerated, the discussion 

 being confined to bread grains and potatoes. Between 1893 and 1898, wheiij 

 communal reports were discontinued, the reports of State agi'icultural experts] 

 ran 12 to 20 per cent higher than those of local authorities. Following the dis- 

 covery of large discrepancies between the estimates and an actual inventory^ 



