110 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



Co-operative purchasing and marketing. 



Marketing business practice. 



Market grades and standards. 



Market surveys, methods and costs, together with collecting and dis- 

 tributing market information. 



Transportation and storage. 



Marketing by parcel post and express. 



City marketing and distribution. 



Marketing live stock, meats and animal by-products, together with 

 market reports on Uve stock and meats. 



Marketing dairy products. 



Marketing grain, hay and seeds. 



Marketing cotton seed and its products. 



Cotton handling and marketing. 



Cotton warehousing investigations. 



Investigation of foreign markets for and development of export trade in 

 farm products. 



Miscellaneous problems in marketing and co-operation. 



Most of these projects are self-explanatory. A brief outline of 

 the work in some of the newer projects, however, may be of 

 interest. 



Market News Service. 



A large part of the work of the past season pertaining to 

 fruits and vegetables dealt with the collection and dissemination 

 of telegraphic market news on a number of the more important 

 perishable crops. 



The experimental market news service which was inaugurated 

 during the spring of 1915 has been gradually expanded to in- 

 clude several new crops, an additional number of stations in 

 producing territory, and an increased number of permanent city 

 offices. 



During the season just closing, 54 temporary stations were 

 established in important producing districts, for the purpose of 

 furnishing the latest market news to the growers of perishable 

 commodities. Permanent branch offices have been located in 11 

 of the most important markets and consuming centers of the 

 country. Temporary arrangements were made to receive mar- 

 ket reports from 20 other cities. The field of action covered 

 more than half of the States, and the reports were issued on 

 radically different types of commodities, ranging from the 



