468 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 



Farmers' Bulletin 992, " The Use of Machinery for Cutting Corn "; 

 Farmers' Bulletin 1004, "The Gas Tractor in Eastern Farming"; 

 Farmers' Bulletin 1013, " Practical Hints on Running a Gas En- 

 gine"; Farmers' Bulletin 1023, " Machinery for Cutting Firewood"; 

 Farmers' Bulletin 1035, " The Farm Tractor in the Dakotas " ; and 

 Farmers' Bulletin 1045, " Laying Out Fields for Tractor Plowing." 



FARM-MANAGEMENT DEMONSTRATION WORK IN SOUTHERN 



STATES. 



This project has proceeded with the instruction of farmers in the 

 importance of the known economic facts and principles that underlie 

 successful farming and in assisting them in so adjusting their prac- 

 tices and management as to comply more nearly, if possible, w^ith 

 these facts and principles. 



This work has been conducted through meetings, correspondence, 

 and personal visits to farmers, by farm demonstrations, by farm 

 records, and by inquiry into the practices of individual farmers and 

 communities of fanners. About 1,000 farmers have been reached 

 personally by the farm-management specialists and many others 

 indirectly. 



The following bulletins have been published: Farmers' Bulletin 

 1000, " Crop Systems for Arkansas"; Farmers' Bulletin 1015, " Pro- 

 ducing Family and Farm Supplies on the Cotton Farm." 



The Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College has accepted 

 for publication an extension bulletin on " Man Labor on Southern 

 Crops." 



Numerous articles have been prepared by the specialists for the 

 local press in the various States, 



