INDEX. 503 



Bollworm, pink — Page- 

 distribution, and control work, quarantine, etc 432-4;58 



of cotton, quarantine work, 1918 26^27 



Bonds, issues, cooperation of Roads Bureau with Capital Issues Committee 374, 38^, 389 



Bookkeeping, farm, development of system and form 6 



Borax, stable manure, fertilizing value 218 



Bordeaux mixtures, investigations 428, 429 



Borer — 



banana root, quarantine 444 



corn, European, introduction, habits, and control 237-238, 248 



Borers, fruit-tree, investigations 234, 236 



Boys' clubs, organization, memberhip, and work 337, 356-357, 364-366 



Brand, Charles J., report of Chief of Bureau of Markets, 1918 451-489 



Breads, digestibility and food value, studies 369, 370 



Breeding — , 



animal, work of Department, 1918 72, 78, 81-83 



grounds of migratory wild fowls, investigations 266 



plant, experiments, 1918 136-141 



Bridges, designs, preparation for State highways, by Roads Bureau 381 



Brown-tail moth, work, 1918 253-256 



Bud selection, for fruit improvement 140 



Buildings, farm, plans and specifications, work of Roads Bureau 390-391 



Bull associations, number and work 88 



Burlap, importations, 1918 439-440 



Burros, wild, injury to ranges in National Porests 185 



Butter, renovated, factory inspection, results 92 



California — 



Berkeley, headquarters of Farm-irrigation Division 387 



forest insects, survey and control, recommendations 244 



Camphor, growing in Florida, progress 163-164 



Canker, citrus — 



eradication, progress 155 



eradication work, 1918 29-30 



Canna, edible, potato substitute, growing, Hawaii 347 



Canned goods, slack filling, control 205-206 



Cantala, growing and cleaning for use as fiber 161 



Capital Issues Committee, aid of Roads Bureau in bond issues 40, 374, 388, 399 



Caprification, fig, work in Southern States 163 



Cars — 



disinfection, in Texas-border quarantine 28 



refrigerator, investigations and improvement by Markets Bureau 463 



Caetor beans, growing, and injury by wilt disease and cutworms 143-145, 158 



Cataloguing, work of Library, 1918 323 



Cattle— 



drought-stricken, saving by transfer from Texas to other States 77 



eve disease, description and control 115 



feeding experiments, work, 1918 _. 80-81, 82, 83, 132 



prazing in National Forests, numbers, conditions, etc 184, 185, 187 



imported, tuberculin tests, results 105 



keratitis, control 131 



lice, control 123 



numbers, increase since 1914 6, 8 



scabies, eradication 107 



transportation from drought -stricken regions of Texas 354-355 



tuberculin testing, cooperative work in States, results 110 



Cereals — 



acreage and production, 1918, comparison with previous years 5, 7 



insects injurious, investigations 237-240, 248 



smuts, study 153 



studies 220 



Cheese — 



cottage, production for food conservation ! 75, 89-90 



factories, extension work 92 



manufacture and ripening, laboratory work 96 



soft, infection with tubercle bacilli,, prevention 130-131 



Chemical investigations. Soils Bureau, 1918, liming of soils, etc 230 



Chemicals, determinations in compounds, methods 222-223 



Chemist, report, 1918 201-224 



