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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A directory of Federal and State dairy, food, drug, and feeding 

 stuffs officials was also published. 



Cooperation with State and municipal officials has been growing 

 rapidl3\ Statistical data fail to show the extent to which the field 

 force of the bureau is cooperating with, as well as assisting and being 

 assisted by, the various State and cit}' agencies. Such statistics as 

 are available will be found in Table 2, giving the cases instituted 

 by State agencies, and in Table 3, giving the cases instituted by 

 city agencies. It will be seen that during the year 333 such cases 

 were instituted by these agencies, 120 more tiian in any previous 

 year. In addition there Avas, of course, an interchange of a vast 

 amount of information either by direct personal communication 

 with the bureau's agents in the field or by correspondence with the 

 bureau or through the bureau's monthly review, the character of 

 which has been somewhat changed by the elimination of a great 

 deal of detailed information, with the understanding on the part of 

 cooperating officials that such information may be secured by corre- 

 spondence on request. The tables, moreover, do not indicate the large 

 amount of work in connection with those cases that did not go to 

 prosecution or to seizure. One hundred and fifty-nine samples of 

 this kind were analyzed by collaborating officials, and, in addition, 

 a large number of which the bureau has no record that were found 

 to require no further action. 



Table 2.- — Nionhcr of actions innfitutcd Juj State officials alleging violations of 



tho Federal food and drugs act. 



