1112 ANNUAL KEl'UUTS OF DEPARTMENT OF A(iHICULTURE. 



Page. 

 Crop pestfi, life-history, studies and publication 1 00 



Shysiolopy, invostiRations 391, 101 1();{ 

 lej)orter, description, {growth, and circulation, remarks by Secretary.. iy4-l!»5 



distributiiiii, subjects considered, etc 92 



reporters, salaried , work 91 



reporting, development of system since 1862, remarks by Secretary 191-194 



reports, misuse by employees, remedy 192-193 



monthly, prei)aration, scope, importance, etc 781-78() 



simultaneous publication 193 



sources of information, compiling, estimates, etc 90-92 



results, largest in record of United States, details 11-19 



rotation, use in insect control 627 



yields, relation of farming type and practice, studies 440 



Crop-reporting board, establL'^hment and procedure method." 192-193 



Crops, acreage, i)roduclion, value, etc., 1911, 1910, 1909, and 1899, tables 792-793 



chief, remarks by Secretary „ 12-19 



introduction for semiarid lands 118-119 



new, and new industries, introduction in recent years, remarks by 



Secretary 1 1 7-1 22 



production of 1912 compared with 1911 18-19 



purchasing pow-er of product of 1 acre, 1911, 1910, 1909, and 1899 795-798 



relation to alkali and dry-land conditions 125-126 



summary of comparisons for 1912 18 



Crow, economic relations, investigations 666 



Crown-gall disease of plants, investigations 396 



plant, determination, similarity to animal cancer, caui-e, etc 136 



Cryptolsemtis montronzieri, insect enemy of sugar-cane mealy bug, introduction. 028 



Cidverts, highway, work of department 868-S69 



Curly-top, sugar beets, control work 139 



Currant grapes, experimental growing, California 452 



Cysticercus bovis, infestation of cattle, study of causes and control 382 



tarandi, parasite in reindeer measles 383 



Dairy buildings, notes 340 



plans, note 326 



cattle, tuberculin testing 352, 353 



Division, Animal Industry Bureau, research laboratories, work 337 



review of work by Secretary 155-159 



new section at Salt Lake City proposed 342 



review of work 324-342 



farming, development and improvement, work in South and West 48-49 



investigations 324-329 



industry, review of work by Secretary 155-159 



manufacturing, investigations 331-336 



production, experimental work, remarks 340-341 



products and mill feed suggestion 11 



inspection, legislation recommendations 314-317 



necessity and value 49-50 



investigations by Chemistry Bureau 53, 585-586 



prices, 1912 20 



1912, remarks by Secretary 19,20 



records, value, scope, etc 48-49 



research laboratories, work 50 



Dairj'ing, development and improvement, in South and West 156 



Damping-off, sugar beets, control work 139 



Dasheen, growing experiments, Florida 424 



introduction, note 119 



Date palm, growing, ripening, and propagation, experiments ] 1 0, 402 



varieties, importations from Egypt 120, 422 



Deaths, department employees, 1912, names and other data 1084-1085 



Deer Flat Bird Reservation, report, 1912 672-673 



Deforestation of watersheds, relation to floods, study by Weather Bureau 187 



Demonstration farm, dairy, near Denison, Tex 328 



farms, Hawaii, remarks by Secretary 104-105 



work, farm drainage 108-109 



Farmers' cooperative, growth, results, etc. 141-142, 390, 442-447 



