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outlines a series of studies covering the needed census of farm population in 

 the United States, also the health, psychology, education, and municipal privi- 

 leges of the farm population. Investigations including the farm family as a 

 basic institution and the religious development of farm life, also the American 

 standard of living for the farm populatiou and its social and political status, 

 are suggested as invaluable both to the public and to the farmer. 



[Report of the office of farm markets], J. Passonneau (Washington Sta. 

 Bui. 155 (1920), pp. 51-53). — A report is made on the year's activities of the 

 Washington State Office of Farm Markets in cooperation with tlie Bureau of 

 Markets of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Several conclusions drawn up 

 from the study of public marketing methods are summarized as follows : 



(1) The extent to which farm products will be marketed through public 

 markets will always be limited. (2) Only the producers living within a limited 

 radius of the city can make use of sucli markets. (3) It is not likely that 

 products other than those included as perishables or seniiperishables will ever 

 be offered on the public markets. (4) The costs of selling in this way are 

 found to be excessive. 



The Market Reporter (U. S. Dept. Ayr., Market Rptr., 2 (1920), Nos. 7, pp. 

 97-112, fig. 1; 8, pp. 113-128; 9, pp. 12D-1U; 10, pp. 1J,5-160, figs. 2).— These 

 numbers continue weekly and monthly summaries of marketing, exports and 

 imports, and prices of specified commodities, and brief articles on important 

 classes of agricultural products, together with notes on foreign market situa- 

 tions. 



An article in No. 7 notes the commercial practice of preservation of fruits by 

 freezing and its growing use. No. 8 includes a brief report of investigation of 

 rumors of dumping, particularly of potatoes, concluding that they were ground- 

 less. Leading articles in No. 9 relate to receipts of produce in Washington, 

 D. C, in 1918, as compared with earlier years, the economic value of cowpeas 

 for planting purposes, and shipments of watermelons in Missouri. In No. 10 

 it is noted that the year's hay prices have shown wide fluctuations, also that the 

 condensed and evaporated milk market is weaker, and that the British demand 

 for American apples promises to be good if exchange rises. 



Farmers' Market Bulletin CNorth Carolina Sta., Farmers' Market BtcL, 7 

 (1920), No. 31, pp. 12). — In this number is a note concerning changes in dates 

 of the North Carolina cooperative wool sales, also the text of the provisions 

 under the State law for grades for apples, effective September 1, 1920, to- 

 gether with the usual partial lists' of products which farmers have for sale. 



Rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food 

 Products Inspection Law of May 31, 1920 (U. S. Dept. Agr., Off. Sec. Circ. 

 151 (1920), pp. 8). — These rules and regulations are to take the place of those 

 in effect for similar purposes, previously noted (E. S. R., 42, p. 190). 



Value of Gove«*nment crop reports, [E. T. Meredith] (U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Dept. Circ. 152 (1920), pp. 7; also in Weekly News Letter, 7 (1920), No. 46, pp. 

 5, 6). — This letter answers a personal inquiry as to the value of crop reports by 

 briefly outlining the general interest in and the benefit of Government crop and 

 live-stock statistics to growers, marketing and distributing agencies, county 

 agents, agricultural colleges and experiment stations, and others, and by calcu- 

 lating the cost of furnishing them relative to the size of the farming business. 



Monthly Crop Reporter (U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rptr., 6 (1920), No. 8, 

 pp. 11-92, figs. 5). — This number contains the usual monthly estimates of acre- 

 age and condition, and brief articles, notes, and tabulated data as to stocks, 

 farm value, and market prices, of important agricultural products. 



