﻿CONTENTS 5 



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 Depaktment Bulletin No. 1382. — The Relation Between the Abil- 

 ity TO Pay and the Standard op Living Among Farmers: 



Scope of study 3 



Composition of families and households 4 



Classification of expenditures 5 



Significance of advancement goods as an index to standard of living, _ 6 



Expenditures and goods used 8 



Comparison of expenditures among owners, tenants, and croppers 9 



Comi^arisons with families of other localities and of other industries. _ 9 

 Distribution of average expenditures in relation to amount of total 



expenditures 10 



Cost-consumption unit and household-size index 12 



Application of the cost-consumption units 15 



Criteria of the ability of farmers to pay 17 



Ability of farmers to pay as related to standard of living 22 



Relation of factors influencing desires or demands of family to stand- 

 ard of living 23 



Further consideration of relation of factors by method of gross corre- 

 lation 27 



Interrelation of factors and criteria used in analysis and considera- 

 tion of other factors not accounted for by gross correlations. 



Multiple correlations 28 



Presentation of inferences or conclusions 30 



Definition of factors 31 



Department Bulletin No. 1383. — Single-bath Hot-water and 

 Steam Treatments of Seed Wheat for the Control of Loose 

 Smut: 



Introduction 1 



Single-bath hot-water treatments 2 



Previous investigations 2 



Methods and materials 3 



Effects of single-bath hot- water treatments in 1920-21 3 



Effects of single-bath hot- water treatments in 1921-22 6 



Effects of single-bath hot-water treatments in 1923-24 13 



Methods of applying single-bath treatments 16 



Steam, treatments . 19 



Previous investigations 20 



Methods and materials 20 



Effects of steam treatments on germination, emergence of 



seedlings, smut control, and yield 22 



Discussion 25 



Summary and conclusions 25 



Literature cited 28 



Department Bulletin No. 1384. — The Effectiveness op Extension 

 IN Reaching Rural People. A Study of 3,954 Farms in Iowa, 

 New York, Colorado, and California, 1923-24: 



Foreword 1 



Purpose and scope of study 1 



Areas included in study 3 



Economic conditions in areas at time of studies 4 



General information relating to farms studied 6 



Contact with extension workers and participation in extension 



activities 6 



Farms and homes reached by extension 6 



Extension methods which influenced farms to change practices 9 



Extension methods which influenced the adoption of individual 



practices — 10 



