CONTENTS. V 



Page. 



Report of the Chief of the Division of Accounts and Disbursements 249 



Character of the work 249 



Work of the year 249 



Appropriations, disbursements, and unexpended balances, 1839-1915 251 



Report of the Editor 253 



Summary 253 



Work of the year 253 



Farmers' Bulletins 259 



Work of Weather Bureau 260 



New features of the work 261 



Sales of department publications 262 



Work of the division by branches 263 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Crop Estimates 275 



Introduction 275 



Personnel 276 



Expenditures 276 



Routine work 276 



Publications 277 



Special inquiries and investigations 278 



Truck-crop estimates 279 



International institute of Agriculture - 279 



Improvements in organization for estimating crop and live-stock production 280 



Report of the Librarian 283 



General statement. 283 



Statistical summaries 288 



Report of the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations 295 



Introduction - 295 



Relations with agricultural experiment stations 295 



'Relations with agricultiu-al schools 297 



Farmers' institutes and movable schools 298 



Publications - 299 



Work of States relations committee 299 



Insular stations 300 



Irrigation investigations 307 



Drainage investigations 309 



Home economics investigations 311 



Report of the Director of the Office of Public Roads 313 



Introduction 313 



General work of the year 313 



Field engineering 314 



Economic and statistical work 319 



Investigation of road materials 323 



Divisions added under reorganization 325 



Report of the Solicitor 327 



Summary 327 



Administration of Acts of C9ngress 332 



Markets and rural organization 343 



General Statutes 344 



Patents 344 



Agreements for the several bureaus, divisions, and offices 345 



Publications of the office. . : 345 



Report of the Insecticide and Fungicide Board 347 



Interstate samples 348 



Import samples 348 



Report of the Federal Horticultural Board 351 



Federal plant quarantine act 351 



Administration and personnel 351 



Review of the work of the year 353 



Report of the Chief of the Office of Markets and Rural Organization 363 



General statement 363 



Marketing and distributing farm products 364 



Rural-organization investigations 389 



Investigation and demonstration of cotton standards and cotton testing. . . 392 



Enforcement of the United States Cotton Futures Act 395 



Departmental cooperation 400 



Index 401 



