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individual farmers that a cost account was desired on some one 

 particular enterprise on that farm. These blanks have not been 

 returned to us as yet, and what percentage of the blanks sent 

 out have been actually used by the farmers and full records kept 

 is impossible to estimate. There has been gathered through sur- 

 vey work cost records on producing wheat, oats and corn. The 

 tabulated data shows the cost per bushel to be as follows : 



Wheat $1.88 



Oats 75 



Corn 93 



The expense for gathering this data has been paid by the Fed- 

 eration. Mr. Warwick has been constantly employed on the de- 

 tailed cost account system in Marshall County, and extra men 

 have been engaged from time to time to do the survey work. 



SUPPLY AND DEMAND COMMITTEE 



The Committee recommended that a detailed report of the 

 number and kind of livestock be asked for quarterly. 



Your Secretary through arrangement with the Bureau of Stat- 

 istics of the Federal Government whereby the Federation was 

 given the franking privilege, undertook to gather this data. In 

 July 192,000 reports were sent out, and a few in excess of 10,000 

 returned. The October report was sent to the Co-operators ask- 

 ing for a report on their individual farms. The October report 

 as well as the July report was not at all satisfactory and another 

 report is being asked for this month. At practically every meet- 

 ing held throughout the year publicity was given to this plan, 

 but the farmers have as yet failed to respond. We shall continue 

 in the work until the farmers generally come to recognize the 

 need of this data and furnish same on request. No matter what 

 plan of marketing is developed, certain it is that without proper 

 information as to what the available supply of marketable live- 

 stock is going to be for a given period, there will be little or 

 nothing on which to base a marketing schedule. 



EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE 



Their recommendations are as follows : 



1. Support the State program of work as outlined by the in- 

 dividual Farm Bureaus and the County Agent Leader. 



