290 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Commercial organizations of the United States {U. S. Dept. Com., Bur. 

 Foreign and Dom. Com., Misc. Her. No. 28 {1915), pp. 104). — There is included 

 in this report a list of national, state, and local organizations, giving the num- 

 ber of members, purpose of organization, annual income, and special activities. 

 Among these organizations are a number bf associations relating to agriculture. 



The American country girl, Martha F. Crow (New York: Frederick A. 

 Stokes Co., 1015, pp. VIII-\-367, pis. 15). — In this book the author has described 

 the life of the country girl and the problems she has to solve, and gives sug- 

 gestions for the upbuilding of better rural womanhood. 



Monthly crop report (U. S. Dept. Agr., Mo. Crop Rpt. 1 {1915), No. 6, pp. 53- 

 64, figs. 9). — This number gives the usual monthly estimates of the acreage, con- 

 dition, and yield of the more important agricultural crops, the farm prices of 

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

 cellaneous data, including charts showing monthly variation of crop prices. 



The number of bales of cotton ginned from the growth of 1015, prior to 

 September 25, 1915, was 2,900,007, as compared with 3,393,752 for 1914. 



A special inquiry among the crop correspondents relative to the sales of 

 farm products has been summarized as follows: "Of every $100 worth of 

 product sold by all who reported, approximately $36 were for live animals, 

 $20 were for the products of live stock, $40 were for crops, and $4 represented 

 miscellaneous items. As the correspondents are representative farmers, the 

 averages of their reports in the United States and in the larger States are 

 probably nearly the sjime as the averages for all the farmers in the States. 



" The character of farmers' sales varies widely in different sections of the 

 country. In the cotton States, as would be expected, by far the greater part 

 of the sales are as crops. Thus, in Georgia, for every $100 worth of products 

 sold, $75 represents crops. $14 live animals, $8 animal products, and $3 mis- 

 cellany. Even in Texas, regarded as a cattle as well as a cotton State, cotton 

 so far predominates that $75 ri'presonts crops, $15 live animals, and $7 animal 

 products out of very $100 of sales. It may be that the cattle section of the 

 State is not so fully represented in the returns as the cotton section : but com- 

 plete returns from all farmers probably would not materially modify these 

 figures. 



" New England farmers make most of their .sales in the form of animal 

 products, largely milk, butter, and eggs. In New York, $53 of every $100 of 

 sales are for animal products. $14 are for live animals, $27 for crops, and $<> 

 for miscellany. Vermont farmers sell only $10 of crops for every $100 of all 

 sales." 



[International statistics of agriculture] {Ann. Statis. [France'], 33 {1913). 

 pp. 1S5*-193*). — These pages contain statistical data showing for practically all 

 countries the area and production of wheat, oats. i>otatoes. and vineyards from 

 1850 to 1913. and the number of live .'^took fr(«m 1«35 to 1910. 



Statistical notes on the production, imports and exports, prices and mari- 

 time freights of cereals {Intem4it. Inst. Agr. [Rome'[ Bui. Agr. and Com. 

 Statis., 6 {1915), No. 9, Sup., pp. 39). — In this supplemental report there has 

 been estimated the 1915 crop to determine whether it is sufficiently large to 

 meet the usual annual consumption. 



In the Northern Hemisphere, which produces and consumes practically the 

 entire cereal production, the quantities necessary for consumption during the 

 year 1915-16 ai'e calculated on the basis of the average of the quantities avail- 

 able during the last five years. 191(V11 to 1914-15. A surplus is estimated of 

 165.000,000 quintals of wheat. 40,000,000 of rye, 23.000,000 of barley. 75.0(X>.- 

 000 of oats, and 31,000,000 of maize. 



