August, 1922 



SCIEXTIKIC ACIRirui.TVR.^: 



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Warehousing: 



Administration of Warehouse Act. 

 Investigations in warehousing cotton, 



grain, wool, and tobacco. 

 Tobacco standardization. 

 City Markets: 



Administration Washington Center .Market. 

 Investigation of city market methods. 

 Ketailing costs and practices. 

 Cost of Marketing: 



Cost investigations in cooperation with 

 each commodity division on the market- 

 ing of various products. 



General Divisions 

 Statistical and Historical Research: 



Trends in production and consumption. 

 Price trends. 



Wholesale and retail prices. 

 Market movements, stocks and consump- 

 tion. 

 Transportation rates. 

 Influences of tariff. 



Foreign Competition and Demand : 



Foreign crop reports. 



Methods of production and marketing. 



Consumption requirements. 



New competing countries. 



Trends in foreign competition and demand. 



Tariff influences. 

 Agricultural Finance: 



Mortgage credit. 



Personal credit. 



Marketing credit. 



Farm taxation. 



Insurance, for production, and marketing. 



Rural public utilities — telephone, light, 

 power. 

 Agricultural Coooperation : 



Forms of cooperation. 



Methods and practices, etc. 

 Land Economics: 



Economic classification of land, etc. 

 Farm Population and Rural Life: 



Analysis of farm population, etc. 



SOME OF THE LECTURERS AT THE C. S. T. A. CONVENTION 



Left to right: M. O. Malte. Cliiet Botanist, National Hebraium, Ottawa; R. G. Stapledon, 



Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth, Wales; L. J. Cole, University of Wisconsin, 



Madison; W A. Wheeler. U. S. Department of Agriculture. Washington; 



A. Leitch, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. 



