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of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and California. 

 The plan of operations involves the closest cooperation possible 

 between the Weather Bureau and the growers, through which the 

 latter may be advised specifically as to the j)robable critical tem- 

 perature and be in readiness to light smudge fires or adopt other 

 protective measures on short notice. 



By informal agreement with the Interior Department, the Weather 

 Bureau was designated to ascertain and publish in the Monthly 

 Weather Review the losses by floods in the United States. A sum- 

 mary of this character indicates that the losses during the year were 

 about $7,700,000, of which more than three-fourths fell upon the 

 farmers. The value of property saved through the warnings of the 

 Weather Bureau was estimated at $1,047,000. The great dispropor- 

 tion between the losses and the value of property saved is due to 

 the fact that three-fourths of the former were on crops that warn- 

 ings could not have saved. 



BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



The main lines of work carried on by the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry are as follows: (1) Inspection of animals, meat, and meat 

 food products intended for interstate movement or for export, and 

 of the vessels carrying export live stock; (2) inspection and quaran- 

 tine of imported animals; (3) control and eradication of contagious 

 and infectious diseases of animals; (4) scientific investigation of 

 such diseases; (5) investigations in the breeding and feeding of live 

 stock and poultry; (6) work relating to the dairy industry; and (7) 

 preparation of literature and diffusion of information on these 

 subjects. 



THE MEAT INSPECTION. 



The meat inspection comprises the inspection of animals before 

 and after slaughter, the supervision of all the processes of preparing 

 meats and meat food products, the enforcement of sanitation and 

 correct labeling, and the exclusion of harmful preservatives and 

 coloring matters. It is carried on at slaughtering and packing 

 establishments engaged in interstate or export trade. 



The work continues to show an increase. Inspection was conducted 

 during the fiscal year at 936 establishments located in 255 cities and 

 towns. There were inspected at slaughter 52,976,948 animals, con- 

 sisting of 7,781,030 cattle, 2,219,908 calves, 29,916,363 hogs, 13,005,502 

 yheep, and 54,145 goats. There were condemned for disease or other 

 unwholesome condition 117,383 entire carcasses and 1,009,672 parts 

 of carcasses, making a combined total of 1,127,055 carcasses and 

 parts that were condemned. The condemnations were as follows: 



