920 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Pnge. 



Beef production, importance of pastures, studios 81 



investigations, Alabama, profits per head 44 



Bees, activity, investigations 545 



Beeswax, extraction, study of methods, etc 545 



Beet, sugar, seed, Congressional distribution, production, etc 362 



studies 57, 287 



Sec also Sugar, beet. 



Beetle, i5Lu k Hills, citntrol investigations 522-524 



Beetles, varieties, injury to forests and forest products, control 522-524 



Beets, sugar, analysis, st udy of met hods 432 



farm practice 33Q 



Belgium, inspection against insccls, note 191 



Bellefourcho experiment farm, remarks 322 



Bennett, J. B., report as Appointment ("lerk, 1910 897-916 



Bethesda Experiment Station, work, 1910 274-277 



Bibliograjjhy, botanical, study 307 



Big boll cottons, experiments 292 



Bighead, sheep, occurrence, description, studies 259-260 



Bindweed, control, remarks 333 



Biological investigations, miscellaneous 553-554 



Survey, Bureau, appropriations, disbursements, and balance 571 



cooperation in rat eradication in packing houses 269 

 with Bureau of Animal Industry.. . 532 

 Public Health and Marine- 

 Hospital Service 551 



State game officials 561-562 



cooperative study of spotted fever transmission 



by ticks 537, 538 



force, number and classification 905 



officers 915 



outline of work for 1911 5G4-565 



publications issued during year, new and re- 

 prints 662-663 



report of Chief, 1910 549-565 



review of work by Secretary 121-133 



scope of work 549 



Bird diseases, study 263 



plumage, millinery use, note 130 



protection, international committee 130 



relation to protection of mammals 557-558 



reservation, Hawaiian, depredations by plume hunters 558 



reservations, National 557-558 



remarks by Secretary 130 



reserves, trespass, causes, etc 869 



Birds, distribution and migration, studies 127 



game, notes 560-561 



importation, notes 128, 555-557 



protection and increase for insect control 126 



relation to fruit industry in California, investi<rations 553 



gipsy and brown-tail moth, investigations 553 



usefulness against codling moth, remarks 125-126 



Bison range, National 130, 558-559 



Bisulphid of carbon, use in fumigation in mills, etc 541 



Black Hills beetle, control 522-524 



Blackleg, cattle, prevention experiments 261 



vaccine, preparation and distribution 261 



Blepharipa, gipsy moth parasite, importation, 1909 516 



Blight, coniferous seedlings, study 285 



Blister rust, white pine 285 



Blueberries, growing, studies 74-75 



Blueberry, domestication and relation to acid soils 305 



Boll weevil, control, studies and experiments in South 81-82, 83, 120 



cotton, damage in 1910 518-519 



investigations, work of Entomology Bureau 518-520 



Bonds, preparation by Solicitor, work 886-888 



