Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-23
FARM MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT WILL
 BE RE0RCAN|zED
Extended Studies of New
 Methods Will Be Undertaken.

Washington, D. C., March 16.- Reorganization and expansion of the Office of Farm Management of the U. s. Department of Agriculture is recommended by the committee of farm management leaders and other appointed some time ago by Secre- tary Houston to study the work of farm management and outline pro- jects for more extensive studies. The committee is made up of the fol- lowing economists and students of farm crops: H. c. Taylor, Agricul tural Economics, University of Wis consin; George F. Warren, Farm Management, Cornell University; Andrew Boss, Agronomy and Farm Management, University of Minne- sota; J. A. Ford, Agriculture and Farm Management, Massachusetts Ag- ricultural College; J. I. Falcher, Rur- al Economies, Ohio State University; R. LY Adams, Farm Management, University of California; G. I. Chris l tie, Assistant Secretary of Agricul- ture; and representatives of the Bu- reau of Crop Estimates, the Bureau of Markets, and the Office of Farm Management of the Department of Agriculture.
 The basic recommendation of the committee is that the office be ex- banded to include both farm manage ment ad farm economies and that it be established as bureau under the name of Bureau of Farm Manage ment and Farm Economics. This, the committee states, it recommends "in recognition of the work already accomplished in farm economics along with the investigational work in farm management and in view of the great need for still further studies of the farming business"
 1 Would Expand Present Work.
 Practically all of the changes rec commended are in the nature of ex- pansion and improvement rather than of creation. The system recommend ed for studies in cost of production Is much more comprehensive than that heretofore used. "We have re- viewed the projects now under way" the committee says, land wish to commend their continuance and de- velopment.' Some projects, it is thought, should be continued under other names. Some that are related to agronomy and some other sub Jects, says the committee, "should perhaps be transferred to some other bureau of the department, securing the information or data desired on these lines through cooperative re- lations rather than independent ac. tion." In the projects under wav. a great deal of work has been found tht, the committee thinks, could be more profitable included under the term, Farm Economies 'This work" the report continues, ''is of great value in understanding the in- dustry of agriculture and should be maintained and ven further extend. ed." Then follows the recommenda- tlon for the change of name.
 The work of the bureau, in the opinion of the committee, should be grouped around the following pro- !ects: Cost of production, including financial records, enterprise records, complete cost records, price relations. and basic factors; farm organization, including farm business analysis. farm practice, effective use of labor and farm equipment; farm finance, including methods of financing. in surance, and taxation; farm labor. in- cluding supply and movement, trend of population, living and housing problems, creating new productive enterprises for farm labor, and stan dards of supervision and compensa- tion for farm labor; agricultural his- tory and geography, including trend of agriculeure development, shifts of agricultural production, relation of American to foreign agriculture, and supervision of the Atlas of Agricul-