418 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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Live-stock shipping associations, business methods, studies 368, 385-386 



Loans, interlibrary outside of Washington, 1911-1915 289 



Logged-off lands, acreage unused in Washington and Oregon, note 48-49 



Louisiana — 



citrus-fruit insects, investigations. 229 



live-stock production in sugar-cane districts, experimentp 141-142 



splenetic fever, areas released from quarantine Ill 



Lumber industry, studies 185-186 



Machines, labor-saving, use in Publications Division 271-272 



Maggot trap, house fly exterrnination 219 



Maggots, onion, control, studies 226 



Mail, foreign. Publications Division, work, 1915 273 



Maine, gipsy and brown-tail moths, control work 211, 212, 213 



Mallein — 



distribution 126 



testing, horses and mules for interstate movement 113 



Mammals, importations, 1915, decrease 244 



Manuscripts, examination committee, work of year 259 



Maps, distribution of birds and mammals, preparation 239 



Market — 



grades and standards 375-376 



news — 



investigations and experiments 372-374 



service, work of Department 30-31 



quotations, cotton 396 



surveys, methods and costs 370-374 



Marketing — 



associations, financing 368-369 



business practice 366-370 



butter, investigations _. 99 



by parcel post and express, experiments 379-380 



cotton, studies 380-382 



farm products — 



cooperative 364-366 



projects of Markets Office _. . . _. 364-389 



investigations and work of Office of Markets and Rural Organization 26-36 



problems 27-30 



Market-milk investigations, work 97-98, 100 



Markets — 



and Rural Organization, Office, establishment 7 



municipality-owned, studies 378 



Office- 

 cooperation with other units of Department 400 



cotton futures act, cooperation of Solicitor 327. 343-344 



organization, and preliminary work 363-364 



report, 1915 363-400 



Southern, study 371 



spot cotton, investigations and designation 395-396 



Marlatt, C. L., report as Chairman of the Federal Horticultural Board 351-361 



Martens, domestication, investigations 233-234 



Marvin, C. F., report as Chief of Weather Bureau ". 57-76 



Maryland — 



dairy cattle, tuberculin testing 116 



road maintenance, experimental 318 



Massachusetts, gipsy and brown-tail moth, control work 211, 212, 213 



Matanuska, proposed new experiment station, Alaska 302 



Measles, reindeer, transmission to other animals, experiments 134 



Meat- 

 animals — 



condemned, number and causes 106-107 



inspection work 105-108 



losses 10 



See also Live stock. 

 food products- 

 imports, inspection 109 



inspection ^ 108 



