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of important products, and the range of prices at important markets, with mis- 

 cellaneous data, including charts showing the annual variation in crop yields, 

 and special reports regarding the acreage, yield, and average production and 

 the hop production and average consumption. 



A special inquiry was made in the States mostly affected by the lateness of 

 the corn crop and the earliness of the first freeze to ascertain the various de- 

 grees toward maturity of the crop this year and in a usual year for comparison. 

 The following table shows the situation in the States most seriously affected : 



Degree of maturity of corn crop at time of first killing frost. 



Fully matured, jear 1915 



I sual year 



Portion of crop fit to husk, year 1915 



I'sual year 



Proportion of crop fit for seed, year 1915 



1' sual year 



What reduction from a normal has been caused by 

 killing frost: 



To yield, year 1915 



l^sual year 



To quality, year 1915 



I'sual year 



Percentage of total com acreage. 



Wiscon- 

 sin. 



Minne- 

 sota. 



Iowa. 



North 

 Dakota. 



South 

 Dakota. 



There are also given estimates for the monthly percentages of the year's re- 

 ceipts by farmers from sales of all kinds of produce, from the sales of crops by 

 States and geographic divisions, and from sales of live stock and live-stock 

 products by geographic divisions. 



In a special article on The World's Wheat in 1915, C. M. Daugherty estimates 

 that the wheat crop in non-European countries f(jr 1913 was 1,776,521,000 bu. ; 

 for 1914, 1,694,806,000; and for 1915, 2,064,876.000; and in European countries, 

 for 1913, 1,783,479,000 ; for 1914, 1,548,372,000 ; and for 1915, 1,728,249,000. 



Statistical annual, 1915, E. G. Osman (Price Current Grain Rptr. Statis. 

 Ann. 1915, pp. 80). — In this annual are given the production in the United 

 States and movement at important centers of agricultural crops, live stock, 

 and packing-house products, together with data regarding prices. 



■ AGRICULTUPvAL EDUCATION. 



The value of education to the farmer, O. R. Johnson (Missouri Sta. Circ. 

 77 (1915), pp. 4). — In this circular a comparison is made, on the basis of data 

 secured in the 1912 farm-munagement survey conducted by the Missouri Col- 

 lege of Agriculture in the western part of Johnson County, Mo., between two 

 groups of farmers, viz, 554 who have received only a rural-school education and 

 102 who have received more than a rural-school education, amounting on the 

 average to practically two years in the high schools of to-day. 



These data indicate that the better educated farmer is making an income 71.4 

 per cent greater than the man with less education, and even after the labor 

 income of the latter is adjusted to allow for his smaller size of business, the 

 former still has about 40 per cent the greater income. " The facts that he gets 

 slightly better yields and has a system which furnishes him more productive 

 labor, and that he keeps more live stock, seem to show that he has .somewhat 

 greater ability in the organization and handling of his business." 



