INDEX. 435 



Food — Continued. Page. 



standards, importance and necessity, recommendation 36 



supply, United States, sources, statistics, production, and protection- 10-31 



Foods, importations, inspection work 203-204 



Foodstuffs- 

 conservation, investigations 196-198 



loss in transit, study 391-392 



Foot-and-mouth disease — 



eradication, statistics, etc 14-15, 67-69 



virus, elimination from hog-cholera serum 123 



Foot-rot, sweet potatoes, control work 140 



Forage — 



insects, investigations and work of Entomology Bureau 223-228 



on ranges, destruction by rodents 19 



poisoning, cause, studies 114 



Forecasts, weather, special, weekly, and night, scope, and distribution 



methods 55 



Foreign — 



mail, work of Publications Division 275-276 



markets, investigations 402^03 



plants, introduction and studies 149-150 



Forest — 

 fires — 



control, cooperation of Federal and State authorities, allotments 



and expenditures, 1916 179-180, 180-181 



control in National Forests, 1915 155, 164-165 



control, State data, States reporting 180 



improvements, roads, trails, etc., value and appropriations available- 177 



laboratory, increase of working force, needs 189 



legislation, warning of Secretary against unwise measui'es 41-42 



problems, relationship to activities of various bureaus 45 



products laboratory, use and value in lumber studies 187-189 



products, utilization, studies 186-189 



protection, from fires, insects, and tree diseases, methods, cost, and 



value, 1915 164-166 



Service — 



addresses at expositions and meetings 190 



libraries, increase, number of volumes, etc 190, 292, 294, 295 



report of Forester 155-190 



types, adaptability, and conditions governing 182 



Forester, report 155-190 



Forestry laws, State, compilation and distribution 180 



Forests — 



conifer, effects of grazing, studies 183 



Eastern, land purchases under Weeks law 40, 159, 160, 178 



National — 



acreage and receipts, 1916 38, 155-156, 157 



administration work, 1916 38-46, 155-190 



consolidation, land addition and elimination, number, and 



area, 1916 160 



free grazing, area, and conditions governing 171 



land claims, administration by Solicitor 346, 351-357 



land occupancy other than water power, free and pay permits 176 



land purchase under Weeks law 40, 159, 160, 178 



legal work, administration by Solicitor— 345, 346, 347, 348, 351-357, 366 



management and uses 38-46,161-163 



organization and business basis 156 



receipts, 1916, increase over other years, and expected increase. 38, 



155, 156, 157 



research investigations 180-190 



revised classification, progress and scope of work 186 



stability and permanence 158-160 



statutory provisions and cases, Solicitor's office 345, 



346, 347, 348, 351-357 



Pacific slope, damage frorn western pine beetle 226 



Forrester Island, Alaska, bird reservation, conditions 248 



Frost warnings, organization and scope of service 56-61 



