INDEX. 421 



Page. 



Packagesfor fruits and vegetables, studies 375 



Page, L. W., report as Chief of Office of Public Roads 313-326 



Palms, date — 



insects, study 229-230 



quarantine 360 



Paper, manufacture from pine stumps, studies 188 



Para grass, forage value, Guam 306 



Parasite of sugar-cane moth borer, investigations 217-218 



Parasites — 



animal, studies. . .^ 134-136 



brown-tail moth, introduction and work 213 



collection in Zoological Division, note 135 



index-catalogue, note 135 



internal, of live stock, studies and work 134-135, 136 



live stock, destruction by dips, experiments 135 



meat-animal, loss from 10 



of gipsy moth, introduction and work 213 



use in control of range caterpillar, experiments 220 



Parasitic — 



fungi, studies 148 



protozoa, studies 135 



Parcel post, marketing by, experiments 379-380 



Paspalum, dilatatum, forage value, Guam 306 



Pastures, irrigation, carrying capacity, studies 150 



Patents, appUcations of employees, work of Solicitor 331, 344-345 



Pathological Division, Bureau of Animal Industry 117-123 



Pathology, plant, investigations 145-147 



Peach — 



crop, marketing, news service, experiments 373 



insects, investigations 214-215 



Pecans, insects injurious, control studies 215 



Pepper, adulteration, investigations 195 



Periodicals — 



additions to library, 1915, and number received 284, 291-292 



foreign, difficulties attending 284-285 



Personnel, Bureau of Animal Industry, changes, etc 137 



Pests, insect — 



introduction in plant importations 358 



investigations by Entomology Bureau 211-230 



Phosphate deposits, investigation 208 



Phosphates, sources, investigations 208 



Phosphoric acid and ammonia production, investigation 208 



Photogi'aphic work — 



Publications Division, 1915 267-269 



Roads Office 322 



Phylloxera, grape, control studies 215 



Pig clubs — 



agency for increasing meat supply 9-10 



development, membership, results, etc 9-10, 85-86 



Pig-club work, development and success 9-10, 85-86 



Pigs- . . 



hairless, prevalence, investigations 119 



immature, prevalence, investigations 119 



Pine- 

 mice, destructiveness, and control, demonstration 236 



quarantine for pine-shoot moth 353, 360 



shoot, moth, European, control studies 224 



Pineapples — 



handling and precooling, experiments 156 



shipping by parcel post, experiments 379 



Pine-shoot moth, quarantine, order 353 



Pitch moth — 



Douglas fir, control 224 



Sequoia, control 223 



Plant- 

 breeding, Alaska, fruits, grain, and forage, experiments 301-302 



chemistry, work - — - 192 



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