This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... ACTIONS ON CROP STATISTICS. In accordance with action taken at the annual meeting of the National Board of Trade in January, 1895, commercial organizations were requested by the chairman of a committee then named to appoint representatives to attend a meeting at Washington on April 15. There were fourteen persons in attendance at the meeting (of which I was one), representing the Exchanges at Detroit, Toledo, Chicago (2), Cincinnati, Baltimore (2), St. Louis, New York (2), Minneapolis, Philadelphia; also, the Winter Wheat Millers' League, and the National Apple Shippers' Association. The last named body had not been asked to participate, but there appeared a person as its representative, who it was said gained access to the conference under the borrowed cover of the name of that association, and insistence of right to appear. This person, who had been in service of the Department of Agriculture in crop reporting work, took occasion to introduce census totals for the 1889 crops as confirmatory of the Department's estimates, and which had been presented to the public long before the completion of the census report. A printed reference to the proceedings said: "Mr. Murray of Cincinnati called attention to the fact that Mr. Snow's declaration, while correctly referring to the near approach to the like results in totals, did not tell all that should be said on this point. He mentioned the wide disparities in the details by States in many particulars, and held that the reaching of approximately like results through a similarity in the average of errors in State totals was not to be accepted as corroboration of good work. He cited various comparisons, such as the following, relating to wheat." (The tabulated exhibit is here changed in form, the...