58 AlilXUAL REPORTS OF DEPAETMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 



itself, as rapidly as a suitable organization can be developed for the 

 purpose, in regard to the facts of the business, so that when a reason- 

 able time has elapsed it may be able to assure Congress and the 

 public that it has actual facts upon the general phases of future 

 trading that are of public concern. 



INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE ACT. 



The enforcement of the insecticide and fungicide act has had a 

 marked effect upon the industry engaged in the manufacture and sale 

 of insecticides and fungicides, and each year sees progress in the 

 direction of more truthful labels and a higher standard of quality 

 in the products on the market. 



During the year the board has devoted a large part of its time to 

 campaigns designed to improve the quality and labeling of Bordeaux 

 mixture and Bordeaux-lead arsenate mixture, campaigns against 

 disinfectants which were adulterated or the labels of which bore false 

 or misleading claims, calcium arsenates which were deficient in 

 active ingredients or which contained ingredients injurious to vege- 

 tation, so-called pine-oil disinfectants and coal-tar dips which were 

 adulterated with mineral oil, insect powders adulterated with pow- 

 dered daisies, and alleged boll-weevil remedies. 



The industry has made tremendous strides since the inception of 

 the regulatory work, and the board is constantly confronted with 

 new problems. Each j^ear sees a new crop of insecticides and fungi- 

 cides. Some represent new manufactures of the recognized standard 

 remedies, but there is always a certain percentage of new theories 

 of treatment represented by these new articles. As a result of the 

 widespread ravages of the cotton boll weevil, various new so-called 

 remedies have appeared on the market. The board has attempted 

 to collect all of these with the idea of submitting them to analysis 

 and test. This is a tremendous undertaking, and it will probably 

 take several years' work before this situation is cleaned up and worth- 

 less preparations driven off the market. 



THE NATIONAI. FORESTS. 



Receipts from the national forests exceeded those during the pre- 

 ceding year by $267,290.71, although the normal revenue from 

 grazing was materially cut down by the depressed conditions in the 



