76 REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



The more extensive part of his work is on the Federal land policy, and in 

 this he has collected a large amount of material. 



Mr. Jesse E. Pope, of New Jersey, is also at work, under the direction of 

 President Butterfield, while Mr. George F. Wells, of Vermont, has already 

 brought out the following works : 



Church federation in Vermont. (First Annual Report Executive Committee of Inter- 

 Church Conference on Federation, 8i Bible House, New York, New York, January 

 I, 1907.) 



An answer to the New England country-church question. (Bibliotheca Sacra, April, 

 1907.) 



What our country churches need. (Methodist Review, July, 1907.) 



The country church and the making of manhood. (Homiletic Review, August, 1907.) 



Mr. Wells also has a body of material at hand and available for final report. 



Prof. H. C. Taylor, of Wisconsin, as the result of his studies of the history 

 of agricultural production and forms of land tenure, has the following mono- 

 graphs, which have been prepared under his direction : 



Land tenure in Mississippi, by Alex. Cance. 



Land tenure in the wheat region of the Northwest, by John L. Coulter. 



Land tenure in Oregon, by Louis L. Swift. 



Land tenure in Minnesota, by Wilber Holcomb. 



Land tenure in Wisconsin, by Henry C. Taylor. 



A history of the dairy industry in the township of Windsor, Wisconsin, by C. W. Dodge. 



A history of the dairy industry in Sauk County, Wisconsin, by Riley Stone. 



The swine industry in the United States since 1840, by John L. Tormey. 



The wheat industry in Wisconsin, by J. G. Thompson (in press). 



Industrial history of the Red River Valley, by John L. Coulter (will be printed soon). 



The agricultural history of Brown County, Minnesota (including the history of the 



New Ulm German colony) , by John L. Coulter. 

 The Minneapolis market and the wheat region of the Northwest, by William Kuntz. 

 The problem of the nation's forests, by W. S. Tower. 



The following are also in preparation : 



History of the agricultural production since 1840, by John L. Coulter. 

 Land tenure in the South ; also cane sugar industry, by Alex. Cance. 

 Agriculture in New England, by J. C. Marquis. 



Eight of these have been turned in, some of which are well prepared, and 

 three of which will be published soon. 



Five monographs on land tenure have been completed, and a large mass of 

 material collected and classified with prospect of early completion. 



Mr. Edward D. Jones, of the University of Michigan, is collecting a variety 

 of material and has associated with him those named below with the follow- 

 ing assigned subjects : 



Marketing Texas cattle via the Kansas Trail, 1870-1883 : Milton Everett. 



History oi Illinois Grain Dealers' Association : S. W. Strong. 



Reforms in marketing Territory wools : Dallas J. Osborne. 



Development of agricultural interests in western New York since 1840: Rich L. Selden. 



History of marketing around Sheridan, Indiana : J. P. Davis. 



History of agricultural marketing in southern New England : J. Clyde Marquis. 



History of Grain Dealers' National Association : John F. Courcier. 



Cooperative marketing in Iowa: C. G. Messerol. 



