IV CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Further steps 43 



Personal credits 43 



Land settlement 45 



Further highway development 49 



Stockyards and packing houses 50 



Federal feed and fertilizer laws 52 



Emergency production work 52 



Rural health and sanitation 53 



REPORTS OF CHIEFS. 



Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau 57 



War conditions 57 



War activities 58 



Forecasts and warnings 59 



Stations and observations 61 



Aerological investigations 62 



Work in climatology 63 



Ocean meteorology 64 



Data and information supplied 64 



Telegraph service 61 



River and flood service 65 



Printing and publications 66 



Library 67 



Seismological investigations 67 



Solar radiation investigations 68 



Agricultural meteorology 68 



Instrumentation, tests, and repairs 70 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry 71 



War activities 71 



Animal husbandry di\dsion 77 



Dairy division 87 



Meat inspection division 98 



Quarantine division 104 



Field inspection division 107 



Tick eradication division 108 



Tuberculosis eradication division 110 



Pathological division 112 



Biochemic division 118 



Zoological division 123 



Miscellaneous division 126 



Office of hog-cholera control 127 



Office of virus-serum control 128 



Experiment station 129 



Experiments and demonstrations in live-stock production in the cane- 

 sugar and cotton districts 131 



Report of the Acting Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry 135 



Work and organization of the bureau 135 



Plant breeding 136 



Investigations of the quality of seed 141 



Seed stocks committee 142 



Agronomic and horticultural investigations 143 



Agricultural industries on reclamation products 148 



