DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 1276-1300 



Depaetment Bulletin No. 1285. — Truck-Farm Labor in New Jer- 

 sey, 1922: 



Object and methods of the study 1 



Agricultural seasons and employment 2 



Nonagricultural employment available 7 



Bringing together farm job and employee 8 



Sources of farm labor 8 



Usual means of finding employees and jobs 10 



Employment agencies___ 11 



Some characteristics of farm employees 13 



Nationality 14 



Marital status and dependents : 16 



Training and education 16 



Occupational history 20 



Earnings and savings 25 



Plans for the future 27 



Farm working conditions 28 



Wages 28 



Perquisites 31 



Living conditions 32 



Recreation and social standing ' 34 



Suggestions for improvement of the farm labor situation 36 



Department Bulletin No. 1286. — South American Leap Disease of 

 Para Rubber: 



Introduction 1 



History and geographic distribution of the disease 2 



Present status of the disease 6 



Trinidad 6 



British Guiana 7 



Dutch Guiana 8 



Description of the disease 9 



Life history and description of the causal fungus 10 



Perpetuation and spread of the disease 11 



Environmental influences on the disease 12 



Biologic factors 12 



Climatic factors 13 



Possibilities of control 13 



Control in infected regions 13 



Exclusion from noninfected regions by quarantine 15 



Summary 15 



Literature cited 17 



Department Bulletin No. 1287. — Experiments with Cereals at the 

 Akron (Colo.) Field Station in the 15- Year Period, 1908 to 1922, 

 Inclusive: 



The cereal experiments 1 



Description of the field station 2 



Location 2 



History of the district 3 



Soil of the district 4 



Native vegetation 6 



Climatic conditions 6 



Crops of the district 11 



Experimental methods 18 



Preparation of the soil 18 



• Plat experiments 18 



Nursery experiments 20 



Experiments with wheat 21 



Winter wheat 21 



Spring wheat 31 



Comparison of spring and winter wheats 38 



Experiments with oats 40 



Experiments with barley 44 



Experiments with minor crops 48 



Winter rye 48 



Spring rye 49 



Winter emmer 49 



Spring emmer , — 50 



