392 ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Division of Rural Engineering has cooperated with several 

 activities of the Government in connection with war work. The 

 chief of the division has acted as a member of the committee ap- 

 pointed by the Secretary to handle the matter of farm -implement 

 control. Considerable work has been done in connection with the 

 standardization of farm implements in cooperation with the Conser- 

 vation Division of the War Industries Board. Assistance has been 

 rendered various activities of the War Department in connection 

 with dynamometer tests and the industrial education of soldiers. 

 Some assistance along this latter line has also been rendered members 

 of the Vocational Education Board. 



Specifications have been prepared for the Bureau of Entomology 

 and the Bureau of Plant Industry for the rental and purchase of 

 tractors and other implements. Assistance has also been rendered 

 the mechanical shops in connection with shop and power problems. 



