98 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



utilizing sawmill and other waste, either for the extraction of by- 

 products or for reworking into smaller wood forms. 



Because of the opportunity which seems to me to be clearly open 

 for advancing the interests of Forest preservation through the study 

 of methods of getting longer or better service from given classes of 

 material, the invention of ijnproved processes of extracting wood 

 products, and the saving of waste, I desire to provide for an expan- 

 sion of the investigative work of the Forest Service along these lines, 

 and have included in my estimates of appropriations needed for the 

 year 1912 an increase of $72,000 over the appropriation for the cur- 

 rent year to make such an expansion possible. I am confident that 

 practical results are within reach whicli will richly repay the cost of 

 seeking them. 



OTHER INVESTIGATIONS. 



In cooperation with various States studies of Forest resources and 

 their industrial employment were continued. Such state coopera- 

 tive studies have in view, from the standpoint of the State the gath- 

 ering of data needed to make clear what legislatiA^e or administrative 

 course will be in the best interest of the State's economic and indus- 

 trial welfare, and from the standpoint of the Forest Service an 

 enlarged knowledge of Forest conditions and the methods by which 

 our Forests may be made most useful. 



BXTREAU OF CHEMISTRY. 

 COLLECTION AND EXAMINATION OF FOODS AND DRUGS UNDER THE LAW. 



The inspection and examination of both imported and domestic 

 foods and drugs have been steadily extended along the lines estab- 

 lished in the three preceding years, w^hile at the same time the pressure 

 of court work and the necessity for special investigations increase in 

 even greater proportion as the work develops. The total number of 

 samples analyzed at the 21 food and drug inspection laboratories 

 during the past fiscal year was 19,411 ; of the 9,571 interstate samples 

 about 40 per cent were reported as illegal. This does not indicate 

 at all the condition of the market, as usually only suspected samples 

 are taken and the inspectors naturally become more expert in this 

 respect as their experience widens. It is, however, an index to the 

 effectiveness of the food control. As a result of 87,265 floor inspec- 

 tions, over half of which were made at the port of New York, 8,217 

 imported foods were analyzed and about 37 per cent were reported as 

 illegal. By this is meant that they were either adulterated or mis- 

 branded, and by far the larger number fall in the latter class. In the 

 prosecution of researches in connection with inspection work and in 

 cooperation w4th other branches of the Government 1,623 miscel- 

 laneous samples were analyzed. The desultory examination of 



