CONTENTS. 5 



Department Bulletin No. 558. — Marketing Grain at Country Points — 



Continued. Page. 



Hazards of the country elevator business 37 



Farmers' cooperative associations 41 



Conclusions • 42 



Department Bulletin No. 559. — Accounting Records for Country 

 Creameries: 



Advantages of standardizing accounting systems 1 



Types of creamery organization 2 



Operating methods 3 



Accounting conditions 4 



Accounting requisites 4 



Auditing 5 



Description of the forms 5 



Method of operating the system in cooperative creameries 12 



Changes necessary under private management 22 



Cost accounting 23 



Conclusions 23 



Forms 24 



Department Bulletin No. 560. — Cost of Keeping Horses and Cost 

 of Horse Labor: 



Sources of data 2 



Summary of costs 2 



Feed and bedding 3 



Labor costs 8 



Interest on value of horses r 9 



Stabling cost 9 



Use of equipment 9 



Shoeing 9 



Depreciation and appreciation 10 



Profit and loss on colt account 12 



Miscellaneous costs 13 



M,anure. 13 



Variations in net costs 14 



Relation of the work performed to the total feed cost. 16 



Cost of horse labor per hour 18 



Labor performed, by months 19 



Relation of total crop acres per farm to crop acres per horse 22 



Department Bulletin No.. 561. — Feed Cost of Egg Production. 



Results of Three Years' Experiments at the Government 



Poultry Farm: 



Objects of the work 1 



Description of stock and conditions 2 



Methods of feeding 3 



Hens balancing their own rations 6 



Feeding value of poultry feeds 11 



Free range compared with large yards 16 



Consumption of grit and oyster shell 18 



Leghorns compared with general-purpose fowls 19 



Egg yield as affected by time of maturity and age of fowls 20 



Weight of eggs 21 



Distribution of egg production 24 



Feed cost of eggs 27 



Feed used in producing eggs 30 



Yalue of the eggs from each pen 32 



Broodiness in fowls 34 



Effect of the molt on egg yield 35 



Variation in weight of the hens 36 



Balanced rations 37 



Summary 40 



Department Bulletin No. 562. — The Control of Tobacco Wilt in 

 the Flue-cured District: 



Importance of the disease 1 



Symptoms of tobacco wilt 3 



Cause of the disease and its present distribution 4 



