AORICUL.TURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1024. 881 



hills for \\r22 and Wri'.i. \> iimIk lUrd in tin' stnt. ■- <.f la-.l 



v<'ar, the lii-st <'oiis()li«lHti<»ii, tluil of llw Hiircmi nf M niid l\w 



liuronii of (Vt>n Kstiiiiat«»s, nui(l«» poHHiblt* tin* throwing; logi-thiT of a 

 {mrt of the ndmiiiistrativr sections last \M'Hr. that is. of iimil and 

 iiU's, acroimts, lilnarv, «'tc., wln<'h altop«thrr iiuulr posMihli- a naviiij; 

 of al)oiit ."<;{(),()()(» in the fjoiuTal <'X|>rnsr of operation. Then, whon 

 the OITuT of Farm Manaf^cmont and Kami Kiononiics wan con- 

 solidated with the Bureau of Markets aiul Crop Kstiniat**^, a Miiiiilar 

 savintj was made thn»n{;h the further consolidation of thone sersu-e 

 units of Farm Management and Farm Kronomies uith the larjjer 

 or{;anizati(jn; so that there has been a savinf; in the jjrneral over- 

 lu'ad 1)V those two steps in consolidation of approximat«'ly .1ir.O.(MK>. 

 A part of this was taken out of the statutory roll and a part of the 

 savin*; was offecteil hy transf<>rrin}; <ertain employees who had par- 

 ticipated in the fjcncral administration of the bureaus to scientific 

 work. 



CONSOUDATIMN OF in lu M ^' 



More important, howevor. than the financial savinps is the incroaso<l 

 efficiency or elfectiveness of the market in^r work of the department 

 thidujih this consolidation. Tiiere are three ways, at least, in wliich 

 this consolidation has increased the effectiveness of the work. In 

 the first place, that has been done by brinf^ng together the working 

 units of (Vop Kstimates and Farm Manatrement. For example, the 

 crop estimating; machinery of the old Bureau t»f Crop Fstimates has 

 proved exceedingly useful to those who are workinsT on farm-manage- 

 ment problems by providing; a means of gathering some general in- 

 formation to supplement the detailed informatii»n that was being 

 gathered directly from the farmers by those working on the problem 

 of cost production and farm organization. Detailed cost accounting 

 work has been earned on on a large number of farms in different 

 parts of the L'nitetl States for the purpose of securing the basic 

 elements of cost in terms of the materials and labor entering into 

 the cost of producing crops. Those figures become of greater per- 

 manent value when supplemented from year to year by specific in- 

 formation that can be gotten through crop estimators with regard to 

 the changes that have taken place in the cost of those material 

 elements of cost — that is. changes in the cost of labor in the produc- 

 tion of wheat, and of supplies, such as binding twine, etc.. that may 

 change from year to vear. Another example of the benefits derived 

 from this closer coordination may be illustrated by the work in live- 

 stock estimates and live-stock marketing. 



By bringiiig the live-stock marketing se< imn in dose conjunction 

 with the live-stock estimating section, they have proved to be 

 mutually helpful, and are cooperating very closely, so that the infor- 

 mation that is secured in Chicago, for instance, by the live-stock 

 marketing division supplements material that is collected in the field 

 by the live-stock estimating group in making a determination of what 

 has actually taken place; that is. what comes into the market is a 

 check upon estimates of what was behind the market. Furthermore, 

 the materials that are gotten through crop estimates with regard to 

 what is probably behind the market this year is very helpful to those 

 who are interested in that problem from the marketing point of view. 

 and who arc interested in knowing what is coming into the market 

 during a given season. 



