412 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Forest— Page- 

 fires, number, causes, damage, protection methods, etc 166-167, 179-180 



insect pests, investigations 223-225 



lands, exchange with States, conditions 178-179 



management, investigation jointly 162 



Forest products — 



covered by quarantine, list 361 



Laboratory, work, cooperative studies, etc 186-188 



preservation, uses, value, etc 185-188 



statistical data, collection and publication 188-189 



Forest receipts — 



amounts available for States, for schools, and roads 177-178 



partial use for Forest roads, and county schools, and roads 176-178 



Forest Reservation Commission, creation, purpose, and work 51 



Forest Service^ 



aid to various States in formulating forest policies 180 



cooperation in game protection 174 



cooperation with other bureaus. States, etc 161- 



163, 172, 174, 176-177, 179-180, 186 



expositions and exhibits, ] 915 189 



legal work 329-330, 332-337 



library, accessions, 1915 189 



new regulations for range management 170 



publications, 1915 189 



report of Forester 159-189 



study of Texas conditions, and recommendations 180 



Forester, report 159-189 



Forest-fire protection, cooperation of Federal and State authorities 179-180 



Forestry laws, various States, compilation by Forest Service 181 



Forests — • 



eastern, purchase and improvement by Government, work, plans, etc 50-51 



Government, relation to agriculture in West 49 



Forests, National — 



administration, district reorganizations, etc 159-160 



agricultural settlement, provisions 49 



changes, consolidations, number, and acreage 159-160 



claims, alienations, and land classifications 161 



expenditures and receipts, 1915 160-161 



fire control, system, work, and benefits 44-45 



fire protection, methods, studies 166-167, 179-180 



grazing conditions, permits, etc 170-172 



grazing resources, utilization, improvement, permits, etc 46^7 



improvements, upkeep, etc., expenditure for fiscal year 176 



investigations, economic, etc 181-184 



land acquisition, approval by Reservation Commission 179 



land claims, administration by Solicitor 329, 332-334 



management, conditions governing, etc., cooperative studies 161-163 



mining development, situation 48 



protection and uses of resources, review by Secretary 44-53 



protection from fire, allotments and expenditures in various States 179-180 



protection from fires, insects, and disease 166-167, 173, 174 



receipts, 1915, sources 160 



recreational uses, permits for summer buildings, etc 48 



road and trail construction, work of Roads Office 176-177 



roads, work of year 319 



timber, uses, annual cut, protection, etc 44-46 



trespass cases, handling by Solicitor o29, 334-336 



water power, development, increase, permits, etc 47-48 



Fowl tick, transmission of spirochetosis, experiments 121 



Fruit- 

 canning, cooperative, investigations 369-370 



fly- 



Mediterranean, investigations 230 



Mediterranean, qiiarantine 353-354 



melon, investigation • 230 



Rowing, Alaska, progress 301-302 



insects, control in packages 228 



