382 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Under your direction, on request of committees or Members of 

 Congress or of State officials, 58 bills and amendments of existing 

 statutes relating to agricultural subjects were drawn or examined 

 and commented on. Three items of more or less extensive operation 

 were included in an appropriation bill and became law. These three 

 items relate to the regulation of interstate transportation of plants 

 and plant products and stone and quarry products; regulation of the 

 importation from Mexico of cotton and cotton seed in order to pre- 

 vent the introduction or spread of the pink boll worm of cotton; 

 and disposition of moneys received for licenses for hunting and 

 fishing on areas set aside by the President for the protection of wild 

 animals, birds, and fish. These three items were incorporated in the 

 agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1918, approved 

 March 4, 1917 (39 Stat., 1134). ^ 



Other bills for the consideration of Congress, in the preparation of 

 which aid was given, covered regulation of hunting in Alaska during 

 the existence of the war; admission of tick-infested cattle into the 

 United States ; preparation and manufacture of viruses, serums, tox- 

 ins, and analogous products for treatment of domestic animals; cot- 

 ton standards; personal rural credits; carrying into effect the treaty 

 with Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds; grant of 

 permits for the construction of public roads over reservations for the 

 protection of wild life; addition to the Oregon National Forest of 

 lands reverting to the Government by virtue of railroad forfeitures ; 

 extension of time within which cutting of timber might be effected 

 by a lumber company on one of the National Forests ; river regulation 

 and flood control; and amendments of the United States warelrouse 

 act, the food and drugs act, and the meat inspection act. 



The office, either independently or in cooperation with other 

 bureaus of the department, prepared for the consideration of State 

 legislatures bills relating to marketing of agricultural products, 

 cooperative agricultural credits, acceptance of the benefits of the 

 Federal aid road act, acceptance of the benefits of the Federal 

 vocational-education act, and for the formation of cooperative agri- 

 cultural associations. In cooperation with two of the bureaus of the 

 department a model for a city ordinance to regulate production and 

 sale of milk was prepared. 



In addition, assistance was rendered in making up the reports of 

 the department on various Federal or State bills covering standards 

 for fruit and vegetable baskets and containers; grain standards; part 

 payment of salaries or compensation of Federal employees by un- 

 official individuals, organizations, and associations; admission of 

 tick-infested cattle into the United States; preparation and manu- 

 facture of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products for treat- 

 ment of domestic animals; exercise by the Supreme Court of the 

 United States of jurisdiction in suits instituted by States against the 

 United States in all cases where, if the issue were between indi- 

 viduals, it would be justiciable by the courts; grant of Federal lands 

 to the University of Nebraska ; Federal cooperation with the State 

 of New Mexico in the destruction of predatory animals; interstate 

 commerce in misbranded articles; the labeling of wines; and con- 

 struction of public roads by States in cooperation with the United 

 States. 



