(Under the agreement of Dec. 15, the Delaware and N. Dakota are to be scrapped, on the understanding that the post-Jutland ships, Colorado and Washington, shall be completed, leaving the United States 18 modern capital ships.)

1 The Colorado is on the point of completion.

2 It is intended that all ships (including battle-cruisers) shall be stopped from and including the West Virginia downwards.

Battle-Cruisers (First Line). All partially built, but to be discontinued.

3 These have little value; also the Rochester, Brooklyn, St. Louis and Charleston (1890-1902).

There are 6 old

The other vessels of the United States navy may be summarised. second line monitors; 2 air-craft carriers, Langley and Wright, completed; 4 mine-layers; 284 first line destroyers now completed; about 20 second line destroyers, some of which are being sold out; 14 new first line destroyer mine-layers; 94 first line submarines (O. R. and S. classes); 48 second line submarines (A. to H. classes; 6 fleet submarines building; about 50 small eagle' patrol vessels, and 100 (number being reduced) submarine-chaser patrol vessels; about 30 old genboats, cruisers, and yachts rated as patrol vessels; 9 tenders for destroyers and 7 for submarines; 4 repair ships; 12 colliers and 13 oilers; and a large number of auxiliary mine-sweepers and tugs. The most modern destroyers are of over 1,200 tons and have a speed of 35 knots. The latest submarines (S class) have not been described. The O class displace 569 tons (surface), and 680 tons (submerged), with corresponding speeds of 14 knots and 11 knots; the R. class 495-598 tons, with 14-11 knots speed.

Production and Industry.

I. AGRICULTURE.

Public lands, unappropriated and unreserved, as reported by the United States General Land Office, on July 1, 1920, with the total land surface and total area, based upon careful joint calculations made in the General Land Office, the Geological Survey, and the Bureau of the Census.

1 Tae unreserved lands in Alaska are mostly unsurveyed and unappropriated.

The public lands are divided into two great classes. The one class have a dollar and a quarter an acre designated as the minimum price, and the other two dollars and a half an acre, the latter being the alternate sections, reserved by the United States in land grants to railroads, &c. Titles to these lands may be acquired by location under the homestead laws; or, as to some classes, by purchase for cash. The homestead laws give the right to 160 acres of a-dollarand-a-quarter lands to any citizen or applicant for citizenship who will actually settle upon and cultivate the land. The title is perfected by the issue of a patent after three years (law of June 6, 1912) of actual settlement. The only charges in the case of homestead entries are fees and commissions. On July 1, 1920, 553,101,888 acres were unappropriated and unreserved, of which 352,781,760 were in Alaska. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, the area patented was 11,850,401 acres, of which 9,981,043 acres were patented under the homestead laws. It is provided by law that two sections,

of 640 acres of land, in each township,' are reserved for common schools, so that the spread of education may go together with colonisation.

The power of Congress over the public territory is exclusive and universal, except so far as restrained by stipulations in the original cessions.

The Reclamation Service (organised under the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902) is engaged in the investigation, construction, and operation of irrigation works in the arid and semi-arid States of the West. Thirty projects have been authorised for construction or operation for irrigation of lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. These projects aggregate 3,200,000 acres, and the major works aid in serving an additional 1,000,000 acres under private canals that generally get stored water from the Government reservoirs. The funds for this work have come chiefly from the sale of public lands, and the money expended is returned to the fund by easy payments of settlers, usually in twenty annual instalments without interest, in accordance with the Reclamation Exteusion Act of August 13, 1914. The Service has built on the 30 projects over 12,000 miles of canals, ditches and drains, including 100,000 canal structures, and involving the excavation of 174,000,000 cubic yards of materials. In connection with this work there have been constructed 100 storage and diversion dams with an aggregate volume of 13,700,000 cubic yards, including the Arrowrock dam, the highest in the world (349 feet), the Elephant Butte dam on the Rio Grande, forming the largest artificial irrigation reservoir in the United States. The net construction cost to June 30, 1919, was 123,853,000 dollars.

According to census returns the total acreage of farms and the improved acreage have been :

In the same years the numbers of farms of different sizes were :

In 1920, 4,917,305 farms were occupied by native whites, 581,054 by foreign-born whites and 950,007 by negroes and other non-whites. Of the occupants, 3,925,095 were owners, 68,525 managers, 480,027 cash tenants,

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1,117,730 share tenants, 127,834 share-cash tenants and 729,115 not reporting.

The estimated gross value at farm of all crops and animal products was, in 1918, 22,480,000,000 dollars; in 1919, 24,982,000,000 dollars; and in 1920 (preliminary estimate), 22,000,000,000 dollars.

The areas and produce of the principal cereal crops for three years are shown in the subjoined tables.

The chief wheat-growing States (1920) are (yield in thousands of bushels) : Kansas, yielding 137,056; North Dakota, 68,400; Nebraska, 60,480; Oklahoma, 46,240; Illinois, 40, 670; Washington, 37,982; Missouri, 32,721; Minnesota, 29,116; Ohio, 28,698; South Dakota, 26,282; Pennsylvania, 25, 284; Idaho, 23,600; Indiana, 23,540; Oregon, 22,900; Colorado, 22, 821. Other crops in 1919 and 1920 were :

The area on which tame hay was grown in 1920 was 57,915,000 acres; the crop weighed 91,193,000 tons, and was valued at 1,613,896,000 dollars. The area on which wild hay was grown in 1920 was 15,266,000 acres; the crop weighed 17,040,000 tons, and was valued at 195,266,000 dollars.

In 1920 the United States rice (rough) crop was as follows: