Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-21

Reorganization and expansion of
the office Of farm management of the
United States Department. of agricul-
ture is recommended by the commit
tee of farm management leaders and
others appointed some time ago by
Secretary Houston to study the work
of farm management and outline prof.
ects for more extensive studies.
The committee is made up of the
following economists and students Of
farm crops: H. c. Taylor, agricultural
economics, University of Wisconsin,;
George f. Warren, farm management,
Cornell university; Andrew Boss,
agronomy and farm management,
University of Minnesota; ]. A. Foord,
agriculture and farm management,
Massachusetts Agricultural college;
J. /. Falconer, rural economics, Ohio
State university; r. l.. Adams, farm
management, University of Califor-
mia: C. I. Christie, assistant secre-
tary of agriculture, and representa-
tiveS of the bureau of crop estimates,
the bureau of markets and the office
of farm management of the depart
ment of agriculture.
The basic recommendation Of the
committee is that the office be ex-
banded to include both farm manage
ment and farm economics and that
it be established as a bureau under
the name of bureau of farm manage
committee states, it recommends 'in
recognition of the work already &C
complished in farm economics along
with the inyestigational work in farm
management and in view of the great
need for still further studies of the
farming business"
Would Expand Present Work
Practically all of the changes rec
commended are in the nature of expan-
cir and iT10nT0UpO0p rothnT than of
creation. The system recommended
for studies in cost Of production is
much more comprehensive than that
heretofore used. 1--WE have reviewed
the projects now under way" the
committee says, land wish to COM
mend their continuance and develop
ment." Some projects, it is thought,
should be continued under other
names. Some that are related to
agronomy and some to other SUBJ
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 rela-
tions rather than independent ac-
ton" In the projects under way, a
great deal of work has been found
that, the committee thinks, could be
more profitably included under the
term farm economics" This work.
the report continues, sis of great
value in understanding the industry
of agriculture and should be main
tanned and even further extended"
Then follows the recommendation for
the change of name.
The work of the bureau, in the
opinion of the committee, should be
grouped around the following prof.
ects: Cost of production, including
financial records, enterprise records,
complete cost records, price relations,
and basic unit factors; farm organi-
cation, including farm business analy-
sis, farm practice, effective use of
labor and farm equipment; farm
finance, including methods of f1nanc-
ing, insurance and taxation; farm Ia
Dor, including supply and movement,
trend of population, living and hous-
ing problems, creating new productive
enterprises for farm labor, and stand
ards of supervision and compensa-
ton for farm labor; agricultural his
tory and geography, including trend