IV CONTEXTS. 



Report of the Chief of the Weather Buieau — Continued. Page. 



Telegraph serWce 54 



River and flood service 57 



Printing and publications 58 



Library 60 



Seismology 60 



Solar radiation investigations 61 



Agricultural meteorology 62 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry 67 



Meeting the food and war emergency 67 



Reorganization of certain work 69 



Control of hog cholera 69 



Mrus-senun control 70 



Vesicular stomatitis 71 



Animal husbandry di\-ision 73 



Daily division 81 



Meat inspection di\ision 92 



Quarantine di\ision 97 



Field inspection division 100 



Tick eradication division 101 



Tuberculosis eradication di\'ision 102 



Pathological di\-ision 105 



Biochemic di\-ision 112 



Zoological di\-ision ] 17 



Miscellaneous diWsion 124 



Experiment station '. 125 



Experiments and demonstrations in live-stock production in cane-sugar 



and cotton districts 127 



Report of the Chief of the Bm-eau of Plant Industry 131 



Plant pathological investigations 132 



Plant physiological investigations 138 



Plant-breeding investigations 139 



Agronomic and horticultural investigations 142 



Studies of new crop plants and crop extension 1 45 



Agricultm'al industries on reclamation projects 1 50 



Crop utilization 153 



Investigations of crop handling and standardization 156 



Investigations of the quality of seed 161 



Report of the Forester 1G3 



Cooperation with States 189 



Research 191 



Miscellaneous 198 



Report of the Chemist 199 



Research 199 



Conservation of foodstuffs 203 



Demonstration 204 



Enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act 205 



Collaboration .' 209 



TeA years of the Food and Drugs Act 210 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Soils 219 



Soil survey 219 



Fertilizer investigations V 223 



Chemical investigations 226 



Soil physics 226 



