278 DEPAETMENTAL KEPORTS. 



now grouped in the Office of Plant Industry have been planning their 

 work in consultation with each other and in close cooperation, and 

 the step which has been taken is the result of the natural growth of 

 this policy. All interested realize that under the new arrangement 

 still closer cooperation and more effective work along broad general 

 lines will be made possible. This arrangement will also check the 

 tendency to segregation of allied work, although the elastic nature of 

 the combination will permit the indefinite extension of any line of 

 investigation or group of related lines of research. Carrying out the 

 plans as here set forth will, it is believed, bring added strength to 

 every line of Avork and materiallj' aid the growth of the Department 

 along broad lines. 



