REPORT OF THE SOLICITOR. 409 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE OFFICE. 



Under authority of section 4 of the food and drugs act, and section 

 4 of the insecticide act, there were issued 578 notices of judgment. 



The article prei)ared by the Solicitor during a previous fiscal year 

 and published in the February and March, 1916, issues of " Case and 

 Comment," containing a brief statutory history of the Department 

 of Agriculture, with a discussion of the constitutionality of the 

 organic act creating the department and of the various acts of Con- 

 gress upon which the activities of the department are based, was 

 published during the year as a circular of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



A fourth supplement to the " Laws Applicable to the United States 

 Department of Agriculture " was prepared. 



One circular was issued containing the decision of the Circuit 

 Court of Appeals for the sixth circuit, in the case of Hlmfipson v. 

 United States (Circular No. 88). 



