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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture . - ix 



Suujinary.. . _ X 



Weather Bureau xiv 



Wireless telegraphy for the benefit of commerce _ . . xiv 



Special storm tore ^ asts for the N orth Atlantic Ocean . . . xiv 



Value of the forecast service x v 



Bureau of Animal Industry xv 



Meat inspection . xv 



Microscopic inspection of pork xvi 



Inspection of vessels and export animals . . xvii 



Inspection of imported animals _ ... xvii 



Serum for hog cholera and swine plague . _ xviii 



The preparation and distribution of blackleg vaccine xviii 



The prevention of tuberculosis ..,..- xix 



Danger from rabies xx 



The experiment station xxi 



Texas fever... xxi 



The dairy division ... ., xxii 



Inspection of dairy products- xxiii 



Division of Chemistry xxiii 



Food adulteration xxiii 



Soil bacteria xxiv 



Sugar-beet investigations . xxiv 



The Association of Official Agricultural Chemists _ xxv 



Examination of foreign fo d products. _ xxv 



Cooperation with Executive Departments. ._ . xxv 



Cooperation with the legislative b' anches of the Government. . . , xxvi 



Cooperation with the Divisions of this Department _ . . - . xxvi 



Miscellaneous work. ... . xxvii 



Division of Entomology xxvii 



Importation of beneficial insects xxvii 



Work against injurious insects xxviii 



Publication on mosquitoes .. xxviii 



Work on bibliography and bee culture xxviii 



Division of Botany .. __' _. xxviii 



Seed testing xxviii 



Plants poisonous to stock xxx 



Economic plants of the Tropics . xxx 



Experiments on the Potomac Flats xxx 



-J Section of Seed and Plant Introduction xxxi 



C3 Some valuable importations - . . xxxii 



p^ Value of seed and plant introduction ._ .. xxxiii 



Division of Vegetalile Physiology and Pathology xxxiii 



CD Cereal work and cereals atthe Paris Exposition . xxxiv 



Q Plant breeding _ . _ ... xxxiv 



Cooperation in tobacco investigations xxxv 



-1- Sugar-beet diseases - . xxxv 



■J Diseases of forest trees .. xxxv 



-') Changes among the officers of the Division . . . xxxvi 



Division of Pomology .. . xxxvi 



The Paris Exposition exhibit . .... ... . ... xxxvi 



Culture of European grapes . . xxxvi 



Catalogue of fruits and cooperative work . xxxvii 



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