CONTENTS. 



Department Bulletin No. 1046. — Rust Resistance in Winter-Wheat 



Varieties — Continued. Page. 



Agronomic value ef Kanred wheat 26 



Summary 27 



Literature cited 30 



Department Bulletin No. 1047. — Farm Mortgage Loans by Banks, Insur- 

 ance Companies, and other Agencies: 



Need of more complete data 1 



Nature and comparability of data 2 



Loans by life insurance companies 4 



'Loans by Federal Land Bank System 4 



Loans from State funds or agencies 5 



Loans by farm mortgage bankers 5 



Other sources 5 



Basis of figures on loans by banks 6 



First and second mortgage loans by banks 9 



Interest rates on farm mortgage loans 10 



Term of loan and method of repayment 21 



Conclusion 21 



Department Bulletin No. 1048. — -Bank Loans to Farmers on Personal 

 AND Collateral Security: 



Amount of personal and collateral bank loans to farmers 2 



The estimated' amount of personal and collateral loans to farmers 3 



Seasonal fluctuation in personal and collateral loans to farmers 4 



Rates of interest 6 



Minimum balance requirements for bank loans to farmers on personal and 



collsiteral security 17 



Interest collections in advance 20 



Naiture of security for farmers' personal and collateral loans 20 



Term of loan 22 



Conclusion 25 



Department Bulletin No. 1049.— Game as a National Resource: 



Importance of game 1 



Principal kinds of game in the United States 2 



Value of game to the farmer 9 



Value of game from the standpoint of health 10 



Returns from license fees 11 



Estimates of the value of game by State officials 12 



Limitations on excessive hunting 15 



Records of game killed 18 



Enumerations of game 23 



Methods of increasing game resources 25 



Cost of maintaining game 44 



Suggestions for making a survey of game resources 47 



Department Bulletin No. 1050. — The Identification of True Mahogany, 

 Certain So-called Mahoganies, and Some Common Substitutes: 



" Mahoganies " 1 



Key for the identification of true mahogany and mahoganylike woods 2 



Description of species — 



True mahogany 4 



Crabwood 6 



Cedrela 7 



Sapeli 8 



' ' African mahogany " 9 



•" Philippine mahogany " 10 



•' ' Colombian mahogany " 12 



"' ' Liberville mahogany " 13 



Birch 14 



Red gum 15 



' ' White mahogany " 16 



Olossary 16 



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