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Kiosks, installation in cities by Weather Bureau 187 



Kites, use by Weather Bureau 36 



in upper air explorations 263-264, 267 



Weather Bureau, description and equipment, and work since 1905 186, 



189-190 



Klamath Lake Bird Reservation, report, 1912 673 



Knot disease, citrus trees, cause and control .' 395 



Kodiak experiment station, Alaska, work, 1912 832 



Labor, wages, and supply, investigations 93 



Laboratories, branch, food and drug, location and work 577-585 



dairy, new apparatus 159 



research work 50, 158-159 



grain standardization, location, and officers 418 



inspection, food, and drugs 573-585 



physiological chemistry, plant and animal, work 587-588 



seed-testing, work 392, 424-425 



Laboratory', contract supplies, work, and proposed work 594-595, 604 



food research, work 560-564 



leather and paper. Chemistry Bureau, work and proposed work 595- 



598,604 



nitrogen, determination, analyses, etc 598 



photographic, Roads Office, report 1912 885 



plant pathology, organization, and work 395-396 



Lacey Act, bird protection, enforcement, work of Solicitor's Office 923-924 



enforcement 892 



aid of department publications 668 



by department 35, 250-251 



violations reported during fiscal year 1912, table 1008-1009 



Lady beetles, liberation in Virginia 642 



parasite enemy of white fly, importation 623 



Ladybird beetle, parasite enemy of white fly, importation _. 623 



Land, acquisition for protection of navigable streams, work of Solicitor 914-915 



watersheds, appropriations, disbursements, 



etc., 1912 688 



agricultural, elimination from National Forests 484, 485, 486 



National Forests, character, opening to entry, classification, 



etc 481-482, 484^86 



claims, National Forests, cases handled by Solicitor's Office 902- 



903,1013-1059 



examination and settlement 256-257 



classification in National Forests, work of department bureaus 64, 72 



condition after production of sugar beets 18 



productivity, remarks by Secretary 153 



Lands, agricultural, in National Forests, listing for settlement 62-65 



forest, acquisition under Weeks law, areas, location and price. ... 69, 530-533 



exchange in various States for school lands, etc 473^75 



grazing, in National Forests, reconnoissance surveys 425 



irrigated, needs, management, etc 106-108 



school, exchange in various States for foro-jt lands 473—475 



Larch importation from Siberia valuable for lumber 422 



Siberian, introduction, note 120 



Lard, exports, remarks 22 



Larkspur, poisoning investigations 411 



Law, Federal, plant inspection and quarantine 77 



meat-inspection, amendments desirable 307 



plant introduction, for exclusion of insects and di^nvso 10 



pure-food, enforcement by Chemistry Bureau 203-204 



renovated-butter, defects and remedy proposed 336 



violations, miscellaneous cases prior to 1912 1012 



Laws, administration by department 32-36, 248-258 



enforcement under Solicitor, miscellaneous cases 926-92S 



violations, etc., work of Solicitor's Office 889-1076 



Forestry Service, general litigation, work of Solicitor's Office, 1912. . 1075-1076 



irrig-ation, adoption by States 224 



live-stock transportation, violations 349 



