CONTENTS. VII 



Paga. 



Report of the Chief of the Office of Farm Management 463 



Cost of production 464 



Farm business analysis studies 464 



Crop economics 465 



Live-stock economics 465 



Farm bookkeeping and cost accounting 466 



Agricultural history and geogi'aphy 466 



Tenancy and farm-labor problems 466 



Farm equipment 467 



Farm-management demonstration work in Southern States 468 



Report of the Solicitor 469 



Summary 469 



The National Forests 476 



Weeks forestry law 480 



Tlie plant quarantine act 481 



Federal aid road act 481 



The food and drugs act 483 



Meat inspection 487 



The twenty-eight hour law 488 



Acts regulating the interstate movement of live stock from quarantined 

 districts, prohibiting the interstate movement of diseased live stock, and 



prohibiting the importation of diseased live stock 489 



The \irus act 490 



The insecticide act 490 



Tlie migi-atory-bird treaty act 490 



The Lacey Act 491 



Bird reservation trespass law 492 



United States cotton futures act 492 



United States grain standards act 493 



United States warehouse act 493 



Standard container act 494 



Food-control act 494 



Food-production act 494 



Miscellaneous work for the Bureau of Markets 495 



Patents , 495 



Report of the Insecticide and Fungicide Board 499 



Interstate samples •. 500 



Import samples 501 



Special investigations 502 



Report of the Federal Horticultural Board 505 



Lines of work 505 



The pink bollworm 505 



The European corn borer 512 



The Japanese beetle 517 



The potato wart in the United States 517 



The flag smut and take-all diseases 519 



The black stem rust of vfheat 521 



Cotton importations 522 



Nursery stock, plant, and seed importations 524 



Inspection of imported plants and plant products 528 



Inspection of plant-introduction gardens 529 



Terminal inspection of interstate mail shipments of plants and plant 



products 529 



