1106 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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Bittere. Fernet, examination and forfeiture 573 



Bituminous macadam roads, conetruction in different localities, items of cost, 



etc 849-850 



Black locust, use on dry lands, note 123 



rot, grape, control work 138 



Blackleg, potato, control work 138 



vaccine distribution for control 47-48, 167-168, 367 



Blastophaga grosorum (fig wasp), introduction into California, value' as fig fer- 

 tilizer, etc 146 



Bleaching, flour, investigations 579-580, 582 



prohi})it ion 245 



Blight, collar, of apple investigation 397 



diseafies, control experiments 137 



peach, ronlrol work 138 



pear, eradication work 137, 397 



potato, control work 138 



Blister rust, white pine, study and control work 137, 399 



Blue stain of pine, studies 514 



Blueberries domestication studies and experiments 437 



Boards, administrative. Agriculture Department, personnel, duties, etc 244-245 



Boll weevil, control by cultural methods 126, 146, 404-405, 407 



poisoning experiments, poisons used, etc 625-626 



proposed work for 1913 655 



studies by Entomology Bureau 146 



introduction into States, quarantine regulations 626 



investigations, work of Entomology Bureau 79, 625-626 



parasites, history, habits, propagation, methods, etc., studies 626 



relation of birds 663, 667 



Bond issues, road building, remarks 113 



Bookkeeping, farm 11, 143. 438 



Bordeaux mixture, study as insecticide 1099 



use in spraying for control of apple diseases 137 



Borer, sugar-cane, control investigations 627-628 



injury to com 628 



Borers, apple-tree, studies 639 



bark, injury to poles, timbers, etc., control studies 631-632 



Boma disease, relation to meningitis, note 358 



Borrowing, costs to farmer 30 



Boston laboratory, food and drug inspection, work 578-579 



Botany, economic and systematic, investigations 393, 437-438 



Boucherie process, pole preservation, experiments 544 



Bovine tuberculosis, suppression 352, 355 



Bovo- vaccination for tuberculosis, experimental work 385-387 



Boys' clubs, com, cotton, and pig 323, 390, 444, 446 



Breeders' as.sociation8 in dairy farming 327 



Breeding alfalfa, hybridization, etc 431 



animal, certification of purity 323 



work of Animal Industry Bureau 43-44, 317-320, 321 



cattle, experiments at Beltsville, Md., note 341 



cereals, experimental work 425-428, 429-431 



citrus fruits^, experiments 403 



com, experiments 408, 429 



cotton, problems, work of department 404-407 



figs, experiments, California 403 



grasses, experiments 432, 433 



norse, work of department 154, 155. 317-319 



plant, development in 16 years, review by Secretary 213-214 



plants for alkali and drought resistance 393, 436^37 



poultry, experiments 44 



vegetables for standardization of strains 458-459 



Breton Island Bird Reservation, report, 1912 672 



Bridges, highway, work of department 868-869 



Broad -bean weevil, eradication studies 648 



Broom com, breeding improved varieties 427 



disease, cause 136 



Brown rot, peach, control work 138 



