CONTENTS. 5 



Page. 



Report of the P^orester 463 



Classification of expendilures 463 



Organization and personnel 469 



The national forests 472 



Acquisition of land under the Weeks law 530 



State and private cooperation 533 



Other investigations 538 



Miscellaneous 548 



Work for the ensuing vear 549 



Work for the year 1914 552 



Report of the Acting Chemist 555 



Food investigations 555 



Drug investigations 567 



Food and drug inspection 570 



Special investigations 586 



Miscellaneous investigations 590 



Publications and printing 598 



Business and clerical operations 599 



Special work planned for the fiscal year 1912-13 GOO 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Soils 605 



Progress of the soil survey 605 



Report of the Entomologist 617 



Work of the year 617 



Proposed work for tlie fiscal year 1913 655 



Plans of work recommended for the year ending June 30, 1914 657 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey 659 



Work of the Biological Survey 659 



Outline of work for 1913 679 



Report of the Chief of the Division of Accounts and Disbursements 681 



Character of the work 681 



Oi-ganizalion 681 



Work of the year 682 



Finances of the department for 73 years 713 



Report of the Editor 759 



Summary 759 



Work of the year ^ 760 



Farmers' Bulletins 764 



Departmental orders 767 



Editing : 769 



Summary of publications printed - 771 



Indexing 773 



Illustrating 77.4 



Distribution of publications 776 



Recommendations 779 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics 781 



Introduction "81 



Monthly crop reports 781 



Division of Domestic Crop Reports 786 



Division of Production and Distribution 787 



Division of Research and Reference 789 



Supervision of field service 789 



Chief Clerk 790 



The purchasing power of fann products 791 



Statistical details 792 



Report of the Librarian 799 



General 799 



Finances 800 



Rooms 800 



Library publications 801 



Use of the library 802 



Interlilnary loans 803 



Accessions 805 



Cataloguing. 806 



Bibliographical work 807 



Periodicals 808 



Binding 809 



Duplicates 809 



Inventory 809 



