Excerpt from The Story of U. S. Agricultural Estimates Personnel files in the National Archives provided a mine of useful material. Letters, speeches, comments, 'and papers written by participants for various purposes, and usually not considered at the time as documents of historical significance, were equally useful. In addition to these sources, Newell drew heav ily on his close association with the crop and livestock estimating program since the early 1920's. His contribution was prepared after his retirement as Chairman of the Cr0p Report ing Board in 1966. 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.