VIII CONTENTS. 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Markets — Continued. Page. 



Costs of marketing farm products 555 



Cooperation with the States in marketing work 557 



Foreign marketing 558 



Cooperative marketing of farm products 559 



Transportation of farm products 559 



Division of Wareliousing 560 



Preservation of fruits and vegetables in transit and storage 563 



Completion of the work of the domestic wool section of the War Industries 



Board • 564 



Direct marketing 565 



City marketing and distribution 566 



Pul)lications during the year 566 



Report of the Chief of the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics. . . 569 



Cost of production and farm organization 569 



Lard economics 571 



Farm-life studies ; 572 



Agricultural history and geography 573 



Farm financial relations 573 



Extension work — South '. 574 



Extension work — North and West 574 



Report of the Solicitor 577 



Summary 577 



The National Forests , 585 



Weeks forestry law 588 



Plant quarantine act 589 



Federal-aid road act 589 



The food and drugs act 590 



Meat-inspection act 596 



Twenty-eight hour law 597 



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 597 



The virus act 598 



The insecticide act 599 



The migratory bird treaty act 599 



The Lacey Act 600 



Bird reservation trespass law 600 



National Forest game regulations 601 



Pisgah game preserve law 601 



United States cotton futures act 601 



United States grain standards act 602 



United States warehouse act 602 



Standard container act 603 



Food-control act 603 



Miscellaneous work for the Bureau of Markets 604 



Patents. 604 



Report of the Insecticide and Fungicide Board 607 



Interstate samples 609 



Import samples 610 



Special investigations 610 



Report of the Federal Horticultural Board 613 



Lines of work 613 



List of current quarantine and other restrictive orders 637 



Index 641 



