REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE OFFICE OF FARM 

 MANAGEMENT. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Office of Farim Management, 

 Washington, D. C, August 20, 191Q. 

 Sir : I am submitting herewith the annual report of the Office of 

 Farm Management for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919. 

 Respectfull}', 



H. C, Taylor, Chief. 

 Hon D. F. Houston, 



Secretary of Agiriculture, 



Reorganization of the Office of Farm Management in accordance 

 with a plan determined upon in a conference on reorganization held 

 early in the present calendar year has now progressed so far that 

 w^ork is being inaugurated along the new lines or investigation pro- 

 vided for in the revised outline of projects. The office enters the new 

 fiscal year with the preliminary work in this regard well in hand. 



Under the plan adopted, the field of research work covered by the 

 office has been divided into seven sections, as follows: 



1. Cost of production. 



2. Farm organization. 



3. Fnrm financial relations. 



4. Farm labor. 



5. Agricultural history and geographj'. 



0. Land economics (including land ownership and tenancy). 

 7. I-'arm life studies. 



Cost of production studies along the lines suggested by a com- 

 mittee appointed by the Secretary to make recommendations in this 

 regard have begun under the direction of Mr. F. W. Peck.. Mr. Peck 

 is also directing, temporarily, the work in farm organization. Dr. 

 L. C. Gray, in charge of land economics, has outlined a series of in- 

 quiries in land ownership and tenancy, land settlement and coloniza- 

 tion, and land policies. Farm life studies have been inaugurated 

 under the direction of Dr. C. J. Galpin. Of the remaining sections. 

 Agricultural History and Geography is identical with the old sec- 

 tion of History and Distribution of Farm Enterprises; that of Farm 

 Financial Relations is being established by transfer of existing 

 groups from the Bureau of Markets; and that of Farm Labor re- 

 mains to be organized. 



Owing to the fact that practically all the research work done dur- 

 ing the past year was done under the old plan of organization, the 

 following detailed report of progress, for the most part, is arranged 

 according to the old classification. 



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