CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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Bureau of Markets 5 



Marketing live stock and meats 6 



Demonstration market news service 8 



The cotton futures act 8 



Grain standards and warehouse acts 9 



The food supply 19 



Increasing the meat output 12 



Combating stock diseases 13 



Tuberculosis of farm animals 15 



Development of stock raising 18 



The sheep industry 20 



The dairy industry 21 



Production of food crops 23 



Cooperative agricultural extension work 31 



Potash from kelp 31 



The food and drugs act 33 



Establishment of districts 33 



Sherley amendment 34 



Number of cases 35 



Research and educational work 35 



Standards for foods and drugs 36 



Inspection of establishments 37 



Road development 37 



The National Forest enterprise 38 



Permanence of the forests 39 



Road development in forests 39 



Eastern forests : 40 



Exchange of lands 40 



Progress in administration 41 



Unwise legislation 41 



Recreation use of the forests 43 



National Forests and National Parks 43 



Clear-cttt policy necessary 44 



REPORTS OF CHIEFS. 



Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau 49 



Stations and observations 49 



Telegraph service 54 



Forecasts and warnings 55 



River and flood service 56 



Agricultural meteorology 56 



Meteorological records and publications 61 



Printing Division 63 



Library 64 



Aerological investigations 64 



Seismological investigations 65 



Solar radiation investigations 66 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry 67 



Foot-and-mouth disease eradicated 67 



Progress against hog cholera 69 



The tuberculosis problem 72 



Hemorrhagic septicemia or shipping fever of cattle 73 



Publications 74 



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