Page 280, paragraph starting “When grain or other food commodities have been stored”: either the final closing quote mark is erroneous, or the starting quote mark is missing.
Page 387 ff.: the (almost) alphabetical order of description of trees and shrubs has not been corrected.
Changes made:
Footnotes have been moved to the end of each chapter, illustrations and tables have been moved out of text paragraphs. Where necessary, hyperlinks to pages target illustrations, tables, etc. rather than page numbers.
Some of the larger tables, forms, etc. have been split or otherwise re-arranged.
The text version of the organisational chart has been created for this text and is placed in the public domain.
In the source document, the List of Inserts in several cases contains more detailed descriptions than the captions with the actual illustrations. Where relevant, these descriptions, as well as text from the illustrations, have been transcribed in a dotted box underneath or above the illustrations.
Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
Page xvii: Insert numbers have been added.
Page xx: opening quote marks inserted before In November, 1903, ....