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object-lesson i-oad built south of the city of Saginaw. A distance of 

 8,017 feet was prepared, bj^ properly gradinji; first, then the crushed 

 stone was put on in layers as usual and rolled, so that when the con- 

 vention assembled on the 21st there was an opportunity to see the 

 road in every stage of improvement, from the undisturbed eartli at 

 one end to the finished roadway at the other. The work was substan- 

 tially a repetition of what we did at Port Huron, except that a longer 

 distance was undertaken. The Director of this Office again joined Mr. 

 Harrison in the work at Saginaw August 18 and remained until August 

 22, explaining the work. He also presided over the convention held 

 on the 21st. At the close of this meeting there was again a strong 

 demand to have the work repeated in other places. Out of the several 

 requests, the Director selected Traverse City, Mich. , as another place 

 to build an object-lesson road and to hold a convention in the early 

 part of October, and Springfield, HI., where an object-lesson road was 

 to be built on the State fair grounds at the time of the convention 

 held September 22. 



The Congress at its last session appropriated an additional sum of 

 $6,000, over and above that usually appropriated heretofore, in order 

 that the work of this Office might be extended; and for the purpose of 

 carrying out that idea the United States has been divided into four 

 divisions known as the Eastern, the Southern, the Middle, and the 

 Western, as follows: 



Eastern dirisi<»i — Maine, New Ham])shire, Vermont, Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Ohio. 



Southern division — Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, 

 Kentucky, Tennessee; North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor- 

 ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. 



Middle division — Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, 

 and Montana. 



Western division — Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Colo- 

 rado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, and New Mexico. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has appointed the following persons as 

 special agents in these divisions: 



Eastern division — L. W. Page, Cambridge, Mass. 



Southern division— Fvot. J. A. Holmes, State geologist, Chapel 

 Hill, N. C. 



Middle division— \\. S. Earle, Detroit, Mich. 



Western division — James W. Abbott, Lake City, Colo. 



RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1902. 



The very great demand for the assistance and cooperation of this 

 Office in localities in many of the States makes it desirable liiat tlie 

 number of special agents and experts should be increased. I therefore 

 recommend for the next fiscal year that the number of special agents 

 be increased from four to eight, and that there be four road experts and 

 four scientific aids, so that there may be one of tliese to assist each 

 special agent, and thereby enable us to greatly multiply the object- 

 lesson woi'k of this Office. 



