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During the fiscal j^ear 1919 reports were issued each quarter show- 

 ing the stocks of wool held by manufacturers and dealers throughout 

 the United States. These reports also showed the stocks of wool 

 held by the Government on March 31 and June 30, 1919. More than 

 98 per cent of the manufacturers and dealers in wool submitted state- 

 ments from whicli these reports were compiled. 



Monthly reports were made of the consumption of wool, these re- 

 ports having oeen prepared from schedules returned by 99 per cent 

 of all of the manufacturers in the United States using wool in the 

 production of their goods. A monthly census of the active and idle 

 wool machinery in the United States was commenced in November, 

 1918. Detailed reports on wool market prices were issued in May 

 and June, 1919, and during the latter part of the year monthly state- 

 ments were instituted regarding the amount and condition of the 

 wool imported into the United States monthly under the present 

 import classification. 



MARKET NEWS SERVICE ON DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS. 



This news service, which is supervised by Mr. Roy C. Potts, was 

 financed from emergency funds in the fiscal year 1919. Daily market 

 reports on butter, eggs, and cheese were issued from Washington 

 and from the branch offices located at Boston, New York, Phila- 

 delphia, Chicago, Fond du Lac, Minneapolis, Denver, San Francisco, 

 and Portland. They were sent to a mailing list composed of the 

 names of over 7,000 persons and firms, each of whom had made 

 specific requests for the reports. 



The reports also included information regarding stocks in storage 

 in certain markets daily, the stocks existing in the entire country 

 semimonthly, receipts and current trading stocks at the principal 

 distributing markets, receipts of cheese from factories and stocks in 

 the hands of dealers in the primary markets of Wisconsin, and 

 wholesale prices received by butter and cheese dealers in the whole- 

 sale distributing markets and by cheese dealers in the primary mar- 

 kets. 



HAY AND FEED REPORTING SERVICE. 



During the fiscal year 1918-19 the Hay and Feed Reporting Serv- 

 ice, supervised by Mr. C. S. Cole, with field offices at Washmgton, 

 Atlanta, Fort AVorth, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, Spokane, 

 and San Francisco, published a " Weekly Market Review " of prices, 

 and conditions affecting them, in the principal markets of the 

 country. 



This Review was mailed on Saturday of each week to approxi- 

 mately 12,000 producers, dealers, and consumers of hay, feed, and 

 grain who requested it. Special attention was given in this Review 

 to supply of and demand for hay and feed. 



On account of a serious emergency caused by drought, offices were 

 established during the year at Bozeman, Mont., and Fort Worth, 

 Tex., through which 5,047 cars of hay and feed were handled. This 

 work aided in saving thousands of cattle from starvation. 



SEED REPORTING SERVICE. 



During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, six branch offices, at 

 Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Spokane, San Francisco, and 



