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Show 1925 Yearbook Is Distributed Volume Discusses Fruit and Vegetable Industry and Statistics. (Prepared by the United Slates Department or Agriculture. The 1925 Yearbook of the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, which is the fifth and last of a series inaugurated under un-der the direction of the late Henry C. Wallace, is no'.v being distributed. The preceding volumes of this series, which deal primarily with the economic eco-nomic aspects of agriculture, have covered in a comprehensive manner the subjects of live stock, grains, dairy products, tobacco, forestry, forage for-age resources, fibers, land utilization and land tenure, highways, credit, taxation, tax-ation, the poultry industry, and the weather forecasting. The present volume discusses the fruit and vegetable industry, contains the secretary's annual report to the President, and more than half of its 1,000 pages are given over Jo agricultural agricul-tural statistics. Agriculture Harassed. "In the five years covered by the series of yearbooks now concluded," said Secretary Jardine in announcing the 1025 volume, "American agriculture agricul-ture has been harassed as never before. be-fore. Farmers have . been "handicapped "handi-capped by disparities between the prices of things they have had to sell and the things they have had to buy. They have been faced with urgent crop readjustment problems and with a decrease occasioned by overstocked and demoralized markets. The economic eco-nomic studies contained in this series of yearbooks were expressly intended to assist farmers in coping with such problems and difficulties. There is reason to believe that they have accomplished ac-complished this subject. Although the present volume deals with a branch of agriculture that' has been less affected than some other branches by the postwar post-war depression, the fruit and vegetable vege-table industry is not without present economic problems. I hope this yearbook year-book may help it to deal with such problems effectively." The articles on fruits and vegetables in this volume include historical material ma-terial relating to fruit and vegetable j growing in this country. I Questions Answered. The value of the 1925 book is not limited to the fruit and vegetable interests. in-terests. Iji 772 pages of statistics may be found the answers to numerous questions arising in the minds of various va-rious agricultural interests. The agricultural yearbook is pub-j pub-j fished under a special congressional appropriation. The distribution of j the JOO.OOO copies published will be made largely by congressmen and senators, sen-ators, each of whom is allotted about 400 copies. The 20,000 copies purchased pur-chased by the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture will be allotted to the various bureaus in the department for distribution distri-bution to their Held representatives find co-operators. lVrsons who are not on the list of some bureau or for any reason cannot secure a copy from a representative in congress, can purchase pur-chase the yearbook from the Superintendent Superin-tendent of Public Documents. Government Govern-ment Printing Olliee, Washington, D. C. |