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

CONTENTS.

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Introduction................................................................................

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

Notations in respect to Blanks; Employment and Schooling of Children.. 1

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

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

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

V. Savings Banks...

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

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

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, OFFICE OF BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES, Y

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.