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$611,990, compared with $305,090 during the fiscal year 1919, an in- 

 crease of $306,900. Aside from statutory salaries, it was proposed 

 to allot the appropriation to the following lines of work, in the 

 amounts indicated: 



Cost of production studies $245, 000 



Farm organization 53,600 



Farm finance and farm relations 21, 560 



Agricultural history and geography 29,200 



Land economics (land utilization) 112,920 



Farm-life studies 20, 560 



Demonstration activities (extension work) 32,820 



It was hoped that the necessary additional funds would be included 

 in the agricultural appropriation bill for 1920, which was then pend- 

 ing. Unfortunately, however. Congress did not take favorable action 

 on the proposal. It not only did not grant the increases recommended 

 but inserted a proviso in the bill which restricts the amount that may 

 be expended on cost of production studies during the present fiscal 

 year to $23,873. 



Although the funds at the disposal of the office were small, every 

 effort has been made to carry out the reorganization program along 

 the lines indicated. I am renewing, in the estimates of the depart- 

 ment for the fiscal year 1921, the recommendation that approximately 

 $611,900 be provided, and that the name of the present Office of 

 Farm Management be changed to Bureau of Farm Management and 

 Farm Economics. 



Having secured the best experts available to direct the principal 

 activities of the office, I am confident that the work now under w^ay 

 and proposed, if the necessary funds are appropriated, will be 

 executed in a highly satisfactory way, and that facts and information 

 of immense value to individual farmers in dealing with their own 

 problems, and also to the Nation for its guidance in considering 

 broad agricultural policies, will be obtained and made available. 



CROP AND LIVE-STOCK REPORTING SERVICE. 



Accurate and complete statistics are prerequisite to the satisfactory 

 consideration of any problem. They are of overwhelming impor- 

 tance to the millions of people interested in rural life, and especially 

 those charged with the responsibility of aiding, by legislative and 

 administrative processes, the successful development of our great 

 agricu'itural industry. Suggestions as to the direction of production 



