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Excerpt from Government Crop Reports: Their Value, Scope, and Preparation Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith and recommend for publication a revision of Circular 17 of the Bureau of crop Esti mates (formerly Bureau oi Statistics) entitled Government ('rop Reports. This revision is made necessary by certain changes in organization and methods which have taken place during the past year. The material presented in this circular is intended for the Information of the large number of voluntary crop reporters of the bureau (approximately and for use in answering numerous inquiries with respect to the origin, value, methods, and scope of the cr0p-reporting service of the department. The circular is divided into three parts, namely, Part I, Origin and Value OI crop Reports; Part II, Scope and Method of crop Reporting; Part III, Bases of cropestimates, because the inquiries for in formation received by the bureau fall mainly into these three classes. Very respectfully. Leon M. Estabrook. Chief of Bureau. Hon. D. F. Houston Secretary of Agriculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.