CONTENTS. VII 



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Twenty-eight hour law 416 



Acts regulating the interstate movement of live stock from quarantined 

 districts, prohibiting the interstate movement of diseased live stock, 



and prohibiting the importation of diseased live stock 417 



The virus act 417 



The insecticide act , 418 



The Lacey Act 418 



Bird reserves trespass law 419 



United States cotton futures act 419 



United States grain standards act 419 



United States warehouse act 420 



Standard container act 420 



Food control act 420 



Food production act 421 



Miscellaneous work for the Bureau of Markets 421 



General statutes 421 



Patents 421 



Publications of the office 424 



Report of the Insecticide and Fungicide Board 425 



Interstate samples 425 



Import samples 426 



Percentage of violations 426 



Special investigations 427 



Report of the Federal Horticultural Board 431 



Lines of work 431 



The pink bollworm 432 



Cotton importations 438 



Nursery stock importations 440 



Plant quarantines 444 



Cooperative work 444 



Terminal inspection of interstate mail shipments of plants and plant prod- 

 ucts 445 



Violations of the plant quarantine act 445 



Potato wart in the United States 445 



List of ciu'rent quarantine and other restrictive orders 447 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Markets 451 



Investigational work 453 



Ser\'ice work 473 



Regulatory work 482 



Publications during the year 487 



Report of the Acting Chief of the Office of Farm Management 491 



Farm labor problems 492 



Crop economics 493 



Live-stock economics 494 



Farm-equipment investigations 494 



Farm tenure 495 



Financial analyses of the farm business 4^5 



Farm bookkeeping and accounting 496 



History and distribution of farm enterprises 496 



Farm practice in relation to maintenance of crop yields 496 



Problems of management in specific areas 497 



Farm management demonstration work in the Southern States 499 



Index 501 



