IV CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Salary classification 81 



Financial statement 82 



Review of agricultural production and exports 90 



Publications of the department 94 



REPORTS OP CHIEFS. 



Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau 103 



Forecast service 106 



Rivers and floods 112 



Fruit frost work 113 



Cooperation 113 



Publications 1.14 



Agricultural meteorology 115 



Stations and Accounts Division 115 



Telegraph Division 117 



Aerological investigations 121 



Climatological Division 123 



The Monthly Weather Review and Printing 125 



Investigations in seismology and volcanology 126 



Library 127 



Ocean meteorology 127 



Instrument Division 128 



Solar radiation investigations 129 



Report of Chief of Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 131 



New services to the farm industry 131 



Expansion of marketing work 134 



New work in farm management 134 



The new bureau organization 135 



Organization of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 136 



Division of Farm Management 137 



Division of Cost of Production 140 



Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates 143 



Division of Cotton Marketing 148 



Grain Division ; 151 



Division of Hay, Feed, and Seed 156 



Marketing, Livestock, Meats, and Wool Division 157 



Division of Dairy and Poultry Products 164 



Division of Fruits and Vegetables 165 



Division of Warehousing 172 



Division of Cost of Marketing 173 



Administration of Center Market 175 



Division of Agricultural Finance 178 



Division of Agricultural Cooperation 179 



Division of Land Economics 182 



Division of Statistical and Historical Research 185 



Division of Farm Population and Rural Life 189 



Division of Information 191 



Publications issued during the fiscal year 1923 195 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry 199 



Some important features of the year's work 199 



Animal Husbandry Division 203 



Dairy Division 211 



Meat Inspection Division 219 



Field Inspection Division 225 



Tick Eradication Division 229 



Tuberculosis Eradication Division 232 



Division of Hog-Cholera Control 238 



Pathological Division 239 



Biochemic Division 243 



Zoological Division 247 



Division of Virus-Serum Control 252 



Experiment Station 253 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry 255 



Work and organization of the bureau 255 



Field crops 267 



Fruits and nuts — 268 



