584 



ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



following table shows the several statutes under which these violations 

 were reported and the amounts of fines and recoveries in cases settled 

 with and without contest: 



Cases reported, fines imposed, and judgments recovered. 



Law involved. 



Number 

 of cases. 



Fines and 

 recoveries. 



National forest laws 



Twenty-eight hour law 



Food and drugs act 



Animal quarantine laws 



Migratory-bird treaty act 



Insecticide act 



Meat inspection act 



Lacey Act 



Pisgah game preserve 



National forest game regulations 



Bird reservation trespass law 



Plant quarantine act 



Virus-serum-toxin act 



Total 



1,032 



1,245 



1,411 



122 



737 



99 



93 



13 



13 



30 



4 



63 



2 



4,864 



$45,056.95 



70,225.00 



20, 745. 00 



16,905.00 



8,825.01 



2, 600. 00 



1, 190. 00 



660. 00 



345. 00 



970. 40 



25.00 



1,202.00 



20.00 



168, 769. 36 



Six hundred and fifty-three formal written opinions were rendered 

 the administrative officials of the department. No record was pre- 

 served of advice given these officials m daily informal conferences. 



Contracts and leases were prepared or examined as follows : 



Contracts and leases prepared or examined. 



Bureau, division, or office. 



Forest Service 



Bureau of Animal Industry 



Biological Survey 



Bureau of Chemistry 



Chief Clerk 



Bureau of Entomology 



Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates . . 



Federal Horticultural Board 



OfBce of Exhibits 



Insecticide and Fimgicide Board 



Mechanical Shops 



Packers and Stockyards Administration. 



Bureau of Plant Industry 



Bureau of Public Roads 



Division of Publications 



Weather Bureau 



Total. 



Contracts. 



1,275 



1 



4 

 4 

 4 

 3 

 5 

 1 

 3 

 1 



12 



1,572 



1 



6 



2,893 



Leases. 



7 



25 



2 



3 



7 



39 



43 



5 



1 



1 



18 

 18 

 26 

 1 

 25 



221 



Total. 



1,282 



26 



3 



7 



11 



43 



46 



10 



2 



4 



1 



18 



30 



1,598 



2 



31 



3,114 



During the year 49 bonds, 353 renewals, and 29 terminations of 

 leases and contracts were prepared. 



Twenty-seven applications for letters patent on inventions of 

 employees of the department were prepared and filed. Of these 

 and those pending at the close of the preceding fiscal year eight were 

 allowed and six disallowed. 



Thirty-one claims for balances due estates of employees of the 

 department who died intestate were examined, the necessary papers 

 prepared for their payment, and advice furnished administrative 

 officers of the department relative to the same. 



In the distribution of the SI, 500, 000 appropriated by Congress 

 to enable farmers in the drought-stricken regions of the Northwest 



