28 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



districts; social aspects of tenancy and landlordism; rural organiza- 

 tions, their efficiency, scope, causes of success and failure; social as- 

 pects of various types of farm labor the married and unmarried 

 farm hand, seasonal and child labor; the relation of various forms 

 of disability the aged, illiterate, defective, dependent, delinquent 

 to farm-life problems; and the social consequences of local disasters 

 due to natural causes, as well as of thrift and agencies for pro- 

 moting it. 



(3) Land Economics (Land Utilization), involving the consid- 

 eration of land resources, values, ownership and tenancy, settlement 

 and colonization, and land policies. 



(4) Farm Organization. 



(5) Farm Financial Eelations. 



(6) Farm Labor Studies. 



(7) Agricultural History and Geography; and 



(8) Demonstration Activities. 



The supervision of the task of executing the new program was 

 assigned to Dr. H. C. Taylor, who was appointed Chief of the Office 

 of Farm Management. Dr. Taylor, before accepting this position, 

 owned and operated a farm in Wisconsin and also was head of the 

 department of agricultural economics in the college of agriculture, 

 University of Wisconsin. The department also secured the services 

 of Mr. Francis W. Peck, of the University of Minnesota, who has 

 had wide experience in studies of the cost of producing farm prod- 

 ucts, to take charge of the enlarged activities in this important 

 field; of Dr. L. C. Gray, of Peabody College, to direct the work 

 relating to land economics ; and of Prof. C. J. Galpin, of the college 

 of agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, to supervise the farm- 

 life studies. This is merely a part of the plan to secure some of 

 the best available minds in the country to direct the work relating 

 to farm management and farm economics. 



APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED. 



Arrangements promptly were made to develop the activities of the 

 Office of Farm Management along the lines suggested by the reorgani- 

 zation committee. As it was clear that existing funds were inade- 

 quate, I submitted to the Congress, on May 23, 1919, a revised estimate 

 calling for appropriations, during the fiscal year 1920, aagrogating 



