THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



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Departments 

 I. War 



II. Navy 

 III. Interior 



IV. Agriculture 



V. Commerce and Labor 



Bureaus 



1. Corps of Engineers 



2. Hydrographic Office 



3. Naval Observatory 



4. General Land Office 



5. Geological Survey 



6. Reclamation Service 



7. Weather Bureau 



8. Bureau of Animal Industry 



9. Bureau of Plant Industry 



10. Forest Service 



11. Bureau of Chemistry 



12. Bureau of Soils 



13. Bureau of Entomology 



14. Biological Survey 



15. Bureau of Statistics 



16. Office of Experiment Stations 



17. Office of Public Roads 



IS. Bureau of Corporations 



19. Census Bureau 



20. Coast and Geodetic Survey 



21. Bureau of Fisheries 



22. Bureau of Standards 



23. Smithsonian Institution 



Half of the official bureaus (much more in effective strength) be- 

 long to the Department of Agriculture. This department was designed 

 and is maintained expressly to increase and diffuse knowledge con- 

 cerning the natural sources of power and prosperity; and it is signifi- 

 cant that more than three quarters of the investigative work of the 

 federal government has either grown up in or gone over to the young- 

 est two departments of the federal organization, of which the last- 

 formed is essentially commercial. 



The federal bureaus are supplemented by corresponding instru- 

 mentalities in most of the states, with which there is large and rapidly 

 growing cooperation. The spirit of the work arises chiefly in, and is 

 largely guided by, some score of voluntary associations, with an aggre- 

 gate membership of several thousand, including most of the investi- 

 gators for the state and federal agencies. On the whole, the state 

 agencies are of the greater magnitude and the more largely devoted to 

 applications, the federal agencies the more largely devoted to investi- 

 gation; the latter seem to be growing the more rapidly to meet a 

 strong demand for effective cooperation with states and associations. 

 The most rapid growth is that of the voluntary associations, of which 

 an increasing proportion are devoted to the application rather than to 

 the increase of knowledge; while the growth of the investigative 



