CONTENTS. V 



Page. 

 Report of the Editor — Continued. 



Farmers' bulletins 263 



Work of the Weather Bureau 265 



New features of the work 266 



Sales of department publications 267 



Work of the division by branches 267 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Crop Estimates 277 



Personnel 277 



Administrative office 278 



Division of Crop Reports 278 



Division of Crop Records •_ 278 



Monthly crop reports 279 



Special reports 280 



International Institute of Agriculture 282 



Publications 282 



Library 282 



Accuracy of cotton crop estimate 283 



Improvement in organization and equipment for estimating crop and 



live-stock production 2S3 



Report of the Librarian 285 



Use of the library 285 



Accessions 288 



Periodical Division 289 



Catalogue Division 290 



Binding 291 



Bibliographical and reference work 291 



Affiliated activities 293 



Library staff 293 



Library meetings 294 



Bureau, division, and office libraries 294 



Finances 295 



A. L. A. form for library statistics 296 



Report of the Director of the States Relations Service 297 



Introduction 297 



Office of the Director 298 



O^ce of Experiment Stations 303 



Office of Extension Work in the South 313 



Office of Extension Work in the North and West 319 



Office of Home Economics 326 



Report of the Director of the Office of Public Roads and Rural En- 

 gineering 329 



Introductory 329 



Road construction 329 



Road Maintenance 332 



National Park and Forest Roads 333 



Road Economics 335 



Road Material Tests and Research 338 



Farm Irrigation Investigations 340 



Drainage Investigations 342 



Rural Engineering 343 



Report of the Solicitor 345 



Summary 345 



Administration of acts of Congress 351 



Markets and Rural Organization 364 



Patents 365 



Agreements for the several bureaus, divisions, and offices 366 



Publications of the Office 366 



Report of the Insecticide and Fungicide Board 367 



Interstate samples 367 



Import samples 368 



Special investigations 368 



Report of the Federal Horticultural Board 371 



Federal plant quarantine act 371 



Administration and personnel 371 



Review of the work of the year 372 



Results of State and Federal inspection of imported plants and plant 



products 378 



