4 CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry 199 



Introduction 199 



Meat insiwction 199 



Proposed department or bureau of public health 202 



Study and eradication of contagious diseases of animals 204 



Breeding horses for the United States Army 208 



New experimental farm 208 



Need for another animal quarantine station on the Atlantic seaboard 209 



Needed legislation 209 



Veterinary education 211 



Publications and diffusion of information 211 



The Animal Uusbandry Division 211 



The Dairy Division 229 



The Inspection Division 242 



The Quarantine Division 248 



The Pathological Division 257 



The Biochemic Division 266 



The Zoological Division 272 



The Experiment Station 274 



Report of the Acting Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry 279 



General work of the year 279 



Laboratory of plant pathology 281 



Pathological collections and inspection work 282 



Fruit-disease investigations 282 



Investigations- in forest pathology 285 



Cotton and truck-crop diseases and sugar-plant investigations 286 



Soil bacteriology and water-purification investigations 287 



Crop physiology and breeding investigations 288 



Acclimatization and adaptation of cotton, com, and other crops 291 



Drug-plant, poisonous-plant, and general physiological investigations 295 



Agricultural-technology investigations 300 



Fiber-plant investigations 303 



Taxonomic and range investigations 304 



Seed-testing laboratories 307 



Grain standardization 308 



Grain investigations 309 



Corn investigations , 314 



Tobacco investigations 315 



Plant-nutrition investigations......... ... 318 



Dry-land agricultural investigations. . . . 319 



Western agricultural extension 320 



Alkali and drought-resistant plant .breeding 323 



Physical investigations 325 



Farm-management investigations 325 



Farmers' cooperative demonstration work 335 



Arlington Experimental Farm and horticultural investigations 339 



Pomological collections 343 



Field investigations in pomology 343 



Greenhouses, gardens, and grounds. 352 



Foreign seed and plant introduction 355 



Forage-crop investigations 358 



Congressional seed distribution 360 



Report of the Forester 363 



Classification of expenditures 363 



