Evening star., 1921-09-18
POSTING THE FARMER
ON WORLDS MARKETS
Of Agriculture Extending Its
Machinery for Gathering and
Distributing Information.

eral government are W. r. Meadows
who explained the American grades
to the congress. and then discussed
them with representatives from other
European markets. and Chester Mer-
rill. assistant chief of the bureau of
crop estimates, who is in charge of
laws regulating cotton grades and
warehousing. The cotton-crop spe-
cfalist, w. L. Pryor. attended the con-
gress in the interest of the cotton
crop reports of/Egypt and India and
regarding conditions in Europe af-
fectfng the demand for American
cotton.
The United States government wants
men in other countries to de-
velop a system by which crop in
formation and market demands can
be made known the minute they are
available and to cable any big fact
affecting American agriculture-th-
any American agricultural product.
what each country wants from Amer
lea, and whether they are likely to be
able to pay for it,.
Distributed to Public.
When this information is cabled To
the United States Department Of -As-
riculture it is worked up in the bu-
reau of crop estimates by the foreign
crop specialist. George F. Frick. who
has an international reputation tor
this kind of work. Then comes the
other end of the job-getting it be-
fore the public, to whom it means
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars annually. Will II. hays. Pos,-
master General. is working up, sys
TEN for broadcasting Tins news 10
the farmers and interested business
men by radio telegraph and wireless
telephone. A summary of foreign
crop prospects is issued twice a month
by the department through the news
papers
The Department of Commerce has
many men in the field and has offered
all of its facilities to the Department
of Agriculture in developing this
service, SO that there will be no dupli-
cation of effort. The Department of
now needs a man who
has the point of view of the American
farmer to keep in touch with the De-
partment of Commerce representa-
tives, to travel around among them.
so that they will know just what in
formation the Department of Agri-
culture needs. The Department of
Commerce agents cover a wide range
of subjects. industrial as well as agri-
cultural, so that they are always glad
to have a specialist on agriculture to
advise with them.
Gets Valuable Information.
E. A. Foley lis the man in London
who is demonstrating the value of an
trade commissioner. He
has been reporting the prices on APP
pies in England for use of the !Ameri-
can growers. He has been looking
UP conditions for marketing dairy
products, and made a trip to Den
mark and Sweden for this purpose.
The information he sent has been
published broadcast.
In South America Dilman S. Bull
lock is the agricultural trade COM
and has taken a special in
terest in live stock. He is also in
structed to obtain as early as posi-
BILE reports on crops and crop pros
poets, especially on the Argentina
wheat crop, which is of vital interest
to American growers.
The direction of this service from
in Washington is in
charge of DIR. Henry c. Taylor. chief
of the bureau of markets and crop
estimates. Immediately under him
is Leon NJ. Estabrook, associate chief.
who has this work assigned to him
specifically. He was former chief Of
the bureau of crop estimates before
it was combined with the bureau OF
markets last July /. He was delegate
to the international Institute of AG-
riculture in Rome and presided over
the section on statistics.