366 



ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



AGREEMENTS FOR THE SEVERAL BUREAUS, DIVISIONS, AND 



OFFICES. 



The following table shows the number of contracts and leaves pre- 

 pared or examined for sufficiency and proper execution for the various 

 bureaus, divisions, and offices of the department: 



Bureiu, division, or office. 



Bureau of Animal Industry... 

 Bureau of Biological Survey.. 



B ureau of Chemistry 



Chief clerk 



Bureau of Crop Estimates 



Bureau of Entomology 



Office of Farm Management.. 

 Federal Horticultural Board. . 



Forest Service 



Insecticide and Fungicide 

 Board 



Bureau, division, or office. 



Library 



Office of Markets 



Bureau of Plant Industry 

 Office of Public Roads... 



Bureau of Soils 



Supply Divl-ion 



Weather Bureau 



Total 



Contracts. 



2,255 



I/eases. 



217 



There were also prepared 63 bonds, 315 renewals, and 40 notices 

 of terminations of contracts. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE OFFICE. 



There was prepared a compilation of all the Federal laws appli- 

 cable to the creation and administration of the National Forests, 

 annotated by references to decisions of the courts, opinions of the 

 Attorney General, decisions of the Secretary of the Interior and of 

 the Comptroller of the Treasury, and opinions of the Solicitor con- 

 struing these laws. 



The article prepared during the last fiscal year containing a brief 

 statutory history of the Department of Agriculture, with a discus- 

 sion of the constitutionality of the organic act creating the depart- 

 ment and of the various acts of Congress upon which the activities 

 of the department are based, was published in the February and 

 March, 1016, issues of " Case and Comment." 



Under the authority of section 4 of the food and drugs act and 

 section 4 of the insecticide act there were issued 640 notices of judg- 

 ment. 



Office circulars were issued containing decisions of the courts in 

 the following cases: 



Armour & Co. v. United States (Circuit Court of Appeals. 



Third Circuit), Circular No. 83. 

 Glaser, Kohn & Co. v. United States (Circuit Court of Ap- 

 peals, Seventh Circuit), Circular No. 84. 

 Seven Cases and Six Cases of Eckman's Alterative v. United 



States (Supreme Court), Circular No. 85. 

 United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca 



Cola (Supreme Court), Circular No. 86. 

 Eleven Gross Packages of Dr. Williams Pink Pills v. United 

 States (Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit), Circular 

 No. 87. 



