512 INDEX. 



Laws- ^»e«- 



feed and fertilizer, necessity 52 



forestry, decisions on cases, 1918 399, 402-404 



preparation and examination by Solicitor 393-394, 396, 405 



violations, prosecution by Solictor's Office, 1918 397. 401, 417-420 



Leaf rollers, control on small fruits 242 



Leaf-cut, cotton seedlings, cause 159-160 



Leafhopper, beet, control 242 



Leaflets, food, preparation, subjects and numbers 369-370 



Leafspot — 



Septoria of tomatoes, control studies. . . ' 157 



tobacco, control 156 



Leather studies. Chemistry Bureau 215-216 



Lectures, Roads Bureau work, addresses, and papers 383 



Legal work, Department, 1918 393-424 



Legislation — 



recent, for improvement of agricultural conditions 42-43 



See also Laws. 



Legumes, acreage increase 362 



Librarian, report, 1918 319-334 



Libraries, Bureau and Division, activities and changes, etc 327-328, 329 



Library — 



Crop Estimates Bureau, work of year 313 



personnel, 1918, and changes 326-327 



receipts and expenditures, 1918 333 



reference and loan divisions, work, 1918 319-321 



statistics, circulation, number of books, loans, etc 321, 322, 323, 328, 329-334 



Weather Bureau, work, 1918 67 



Lice — 



cattle, control 123 



hog, control ^ 123-124 



Liming, soils, studies and publication relating to 230 



Linters, cotton, handling and marketing, investigations 468 



Live stock — 



conditions, monthly estimates 314 



dealers' regulations 452^53, 487 



demonstration work on reclamation projects 149-150 



grazing, National Forests, nimibers, permits, and management 166, 183-187 



increase, results of extension work ._ 354, 362 



inspection, antemortem and post-mortem, condemnation, etc 98-100 



interstate commerce, sanitary work 111-112 



management on farms, investigations _ 494 



market news service. 21-22, 475^76 



marketing, investigations 465-466 



number, increase since 1914 6,8 



poisoning, causes, investigations 116, 117-148 



production in cane-sugar and cotton districts 131-133 



protection, value of weather warnings^ 60, 69 



transportation and quarantine laws, violations 112 



values with crops, 1914, 1917, 1918 8 



Loans, seed grain, to farmers, conditions, number, and amount 32-35 



Louisiana — 



drainage work and districts 389 



Iberia Experiment Farm, work and demonstrations 131-133 



Louse, body, investigations and control 243-244 



Lung troubles, children and animals, caused by worms, note 125 



Machinery, farm, use and C£^re of, studies 495 



Maine, sardine industry, conditions 209 



Mallein, use in testing horses for glanders, number of doses, etc 76, 113, 122 



Mammals — 



importations, 1918 271-272 



reservations, work, 1918 267-269 



Manganese, presence in insect powder, studies 427 



Mange, hog, investigation and control 123 



Manila maguey, growing and cleaning for use as fiber 161 



Manure, borax-treated, fertilizing value. 218 



