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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



3,640,000 copies were printed of new Farmers' Bulletins, making a total 

 of 1 2,795, OOOFarmers' Bulletins printed and distributed during the year. 



Plans heretofore made for the improvement of the Farmers' Bulle- 

 tins have been followed. Consideration has been given to the advis- 

 ability of eliminating or revising those that are out of date or have 

 served the purpose for which they were issued, and the preparation 

 of new bulletins on subjects with regard to which there is now no 

 published information. 



The following is a list of the new Farmers' Bulletins issued during 

 the year, with the editions thereof: 



List of new Farmers' Bulletins issued during the year ended June 30, 1916, with the number 



of copies. 



Num- 

 ber. 



Title. 



674 

 675 

 679 

 6S0 

 681 

 682 

 683 

 684 

 685 

 686 

 687 

 688 

 689 

 690 

 691 

 692 

 693 

 694 

 695 

 696 

 697 

 698 

 699 

 700 

 701 

 702 

 703 

 704 

 705 

 506 

 707 

 708 

 709 

 710 

 711 

 712 

 713 

 714 

 715 

 716 

 717 

 718 

 719 

 720 

 721 

 722 

 723 

 724 

 725 

 726 

 727 

 728 

 730 

 731 

 732 

 733 



734 

 735 

 737 

 738 

 739 

 742 



Control of the Citrus Thrips in California and Arizona 



The Round Headed Apple-Tree Borer 



House Flies 



Varieties of Hard Spring Wheat 



The Silverfish: An Injurious Household Insect 



A Simple Trap Nest for Poultry 



Fleas as Pests to Man and Animals, with Suggestions for their Control 



Squab Raising 



The Native Persimmon 



Uses of Sorghum Grain 



Eradication of Ferns from Pasture Lands in the Eastern United States 



The Culture of Rice in California 



A Plan for a Small Dairy House 



The Field Pea as a Forage Crop 



Grasshoppers and Their Control on Sugar Beets and Truck Crops 



Game Laws for 1915 



Bur Clover 



The Cultivation of Peppermint and Spearmint 



Outdoor Wintering of Bees 



Handling and Shipping Citrus Fruits in the Gulf States 



Duck Raising 



Trenching Machinery Used for the Construction of Trenches for Tile Drains 



Hydrocyanic- Acid Gas against Household Insects '. 



Pecan Culture, with Special Reference to Varieties and Propagation 



The Bagworm, an Injurious Shade-Tree Insect 



Cottontail Rabbits in Relation to Trees and Farm Crops 



Suggest ions for Parcel Post Marketing 



Grain Farming in the Corn Belt, with Live Stock as a Side Line 



The Catalpa Sphinx 



Laws Relating to Fur-Bearing Animals, 1915 



The Commercial Grading, Packing, and Shipping of Cantaloupes 



The Leopard Moth, a Dangerous Imported Insect Enemy of Shade Trees 



Muscadine Grapes 



Bridge Grafting of Fruit Trees 



The Care and Improvement of the Woodlot 



Schoo 1 Lunches 



Sheep Scab 



Sweet-Potato Diseases 



Measuring and Marketing Woodlot Products 



Management of Sandy Land Farms in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan 



Food for Young Children 



Cooperative Livestock Shipping Associations 



Sizes of Tractors Adapted to Different Sizes of Farms , 



Prevention of Losses of Stock from Poisonous Plants 



The Rose Chafer: A Destructive Garden and Vineyard Pest 



The Leaf Blister Mite 



The Oyster-Shell Scale and the Scurfy Scale 



The Feeding of Grain Sorghums to Live Stock 



Wireworms Destructive to Cereal and Forage Crops 



Natal Grass, a Southern Perennial Hay Crop 



Growing Fruit for Home Use in the Great Plains Area 



Dewberry Culture 



Button Clover 



The True Army Worm and Its Control 



Marquis Wheat 



The Corn and Cotton Wireworm in Relation to Cereal and Forage Crops, with Control 



Measures 



Flv Traps and Their Operation 



The Red Spider on Cotton and How to Control It 



The Clover Leafhopper and Its Control 



Cereal Crops in the Panhandle of Texas 



Cutworms and Their Control in Corn and Other Cereal Crops 



The White-Pine Blister Rust 



Copies. 



40,000 

 60,000 



110,000 

 60,000 

 35,000 

 90,000 

 50,000 

 65,000 

 60,000 

 45,000 

 55,000 

 35,000 

 60,000 

 60,000 

 45,000 



120,000 

 60,000 

 35,000 

 50,000 

 45,000 

 70,000 

 50,000 

 30,000 

 50,000 

 45,000 

 50,000 



170,000 



455,000 

 45,000 

 35,000 

 60 000 

 45,000 

 50,000 

 70,000 

 30,000 



125,000 

 50,000 

 50,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 



200,000 

 50,000 

 50,000 

 50,000 

 50,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 40,000 



30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 

 30,000 



