CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Page. 



Agricultural production of 1910 9 



Prices of farm products 19 



Population, crop yields, and prices 26 



Proposed department or bureau of public health 30 



Enforcement of the food and drugs act 32 



Work of the department in 1910 33 



Office of the Solicitor 33 



Changes in the personnel 36 



Weather Bureau 36 



Bureau of Animal Industry 42 



Bureau of Plant Industry 53 



Forest Service 86 



Bureau of Chemistry 98 



Bureau of Soils 107 



Bureau of Entomology 113 



Bureau of Biological Survey 121 



Division of Accounts and Disbursements 131 



Division of Publications 133 



Bureau of Statistics 135 



Library 137 



Office of,Experiment Stations 138 



Office of Public Roads 152 



The handling of perishable products 157 



REPORTS OP CHIEFS. 



Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau 161 



Mount Weather Research Observatory 161 



Forecasts and warnings 166 



River and Flood Division 172 



Instrument Division 175 



Climatological Division 177 



Marine Division 180 



Library 183 



Examinations for promotion 185 



School of instruction 185 



Distributing Division 185 



Telegraph Division 189 



Publications Division 190 



Division of Supplies 190 



Observatory buildings I'.'i 



Personnel of the bureau 193 



Changes in the force of the bureau 194 



Statistics of the service 196 



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