EMBRACING ITS OPERATIONS FROM APRIL 1 TO OCTOBER 31, 1878.

TRENTON, N. J.:
NAAR, DAY & NAAR, PRINTERS

1878.

CONTENTS.

Page.

Introduction.......

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I. Considerations regarding Labor and the Education and Welfare of Laborers;

Notations in respect to Blanks; Employment and Schooling of Children..

vii

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II. Agricultural Development-Its relations to Local Colonization and the Un-

improved Lands of New Jersey; New and Diversified Industries essen-

tial to General Prosperity; Canvassers' Report for South Jersey............. 61

III. Forestry; Rural and Village Adornment........

123

IV. Co-operation in its workings in Europe and its adaptation to New Jersey.... 141

V. Savings Banks..........

193

VI. Climate and Sanitary Condition of South Jersey...

211

VII. Industries-Pottery, Flax, Hemp and Cranberry....

223

STATE OF NEW JERSEY,

OFFICE OF BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES,

TRENTON, October 31st, 1878.

To His Excellency George B. McClellan, Governor:

SIR-In accordance with the law passed at the last session of the Legislature, approved March 27th, 1878, I have the honor to present the first report of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries.

JAMES BISHOP, Chief.