INDEX. 485 



Page. 



County agents, work in South, North, and West 338-343, 346-350 



Court derisions, interest to I )epart ment, details 393-395, 39G 



Cow-testing associations, conditions 82 



Cranberry — 



diseases, control, studies, 1917 137 



insects, investigations and control work 228, 231 



warnings, Weather Bureau, work, 1917 63 



Creameries — 



accoiuiting records 432 



management and development, various seel ions 86-88 



Creamery, Grove City, Pa. , effect on community ^87-88 



Credit, rural, investigations, live-stock laws, etc 450-451 



Crop — 



Estimates — 



Bureau, report of Chief, 1917 295-307 



library, work, 1917 - -^ 317, 318 



reporting, field service, composition and requisites 298, 301-302 



reports — 



special, work of Crop Estimates Division 300-302 



work of year, issue and distribution 296, 299-300, 303 



Crops — 



extension work in North and West, demonstrations 347-348 



new, introduction and extension 145-150 



protection, work of Weather Bureau, 1917 62-65 



Cucumbers, diseases, investigations, 1917 133 



Curculio, plum, control 231 



Currants, c^uarantine for white-pine blister rust 417, 418, 429 



Dairy — 



cattle, breeding, feeding, and housing, experiments 91 



farming, development and demonstration work 81-84 



farms, tenancy, systems study 475 



investigations, 1917 81-91 



products — 



marketing, investigations 444 



production and conservation, work, 1917 25-26 



region, northern and northeastern, problems, studies 478. 



research laboratories, work, 19J7 84-86 



Dairying on reclamation projects, progress 151 



Dasheens, root-rot control work, 1917 134 



Date — 



food value 147 



palm offshoots, propagation, study 138-139 



palms quarantine for scale insects 428^29 



Demonstration work — 



of county agents. South, North, and West 338-344, 347-354 



on reclamation projects 150-153 



Dendrology, studies, 1917 194-195 



Department publications, 1917, numbers, classes, and divisions issuing 272-285 



Dips- 

 arsenical, use in control of e.xternal parasites of animals 118, 119, 120 



testing, and distribution of outfits 115-116 



Disbursements Division, report of Chief, 1917 267-269 



Disease, gipsy moth, use as control, investigations 229 



Diseases — 

 animal — 



causing condemnation of carcasses 93 



investigations and control work, 1917 69-70, 71-73, 105-127 



contagious, animals, field inspection 100-101 



plant — 



insect carriers 241-242 



investigations, 1917 132-138 



Disinfectants, testing and distribution of outfits 115-116 



Document Section, Ptiblications Division, work, 1917 288-294 



Uourine eradication work. 1917 IGO, 108 



