index. • 447 



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Sewage disposal from creameries, studies 96 



Shade trees, injury by insects, investigations 227-228 



Sheds, steel, for open markets, plans 398 



Sheep- 

 growers, special temperature and storm warnings to 59 



handling methods on National Forests, studies «. 18:1-184 



industry, conditions, decline, importance, and extension 20-21 



investigations, range and farm 79-81 



lip-and-leg ulceration inspections 108 



numbers grazing on forest ranges IS 



parasites, investigations and control 127-128, 130 



roundworms, control experiments 127-128 



scabies — 



eradication, dippings and quarantine release 107 



eradication, progress 13 



spewing sickness, cause, investigations 120 



Sherley amendment, Food and Drugs Act, enforcement 34-3.") 



Shingles, asphalt, manufacture from tanbark waste 188 



Shipping fever, cattle, investigations 73-74, 115 



Shorthorn cattle, breediug experiments, Kansas 77—78 



Shrimp, canning, studies 196 



Silage, studies on composition, etc 95 



Silos, studies 95 



Silvicultural studies, National Forests 185-186 



Sirups, studies 198 



Sisal fiber, demand, sources of supply, etc 148 



Sitka agricultural experiment station, work and progress 306 



Skim-milk, pasteurization for prevention of tuberculosis in hogs 73 



Smith Island, Wash., bird reservation, conditions 248 



Sneezeweed, sheep poisoning, investigations 120 



Snow bulletins, increase of information 51 



Sodium nitrate, use in curing meats 106 



Soil- 

 chemistry, scope of work 211 



physics, studies and work 211 



survey, work 205-208 



Soils — 



areas surveyed and mapped, by States 206-208 



Bureau, report of Chief 205-211 



clover-sick, studies 142 



indicator value of native vegetation, Southwest, studies 143 



organic constituents, studies 142 



Solar radiation, investigations by Weather Bureau, 1915-1916 66 



Solicitor- 

 Office, cooperation with Markets Office 413 



report, 1916 84.1-366 



summary of work, 1916 84.1-351 



Sorghums, grain, acreage increase in Southwest. 25 



South Carolina — 



cattle feeding and selling, demonstration work 79 



forest lands, acreage under Weeks law, 1916 356 



South Dakota, horse breeding on Indian reservations 83 



Southdown sheep, breeding and farm management 80, 81 



Southeastern Stales, birds, food habits, studies 241, 242 



Southern States — 



dairy work, development and extension 8S, 89 



live-stock demonstrations work 78,79 



Soy beans — 



commercial production ami utilization, studies 144 



crushing, adaptation of cottonseed oil mills 396 



food value, investigations 26 



Specimens, bird and mammal, identification and study 244 



Spices, studies 195 



Spillman, W. J., report as Farm Management Office Chief 41.1 42:: 



Spinach aphis, studies and control work 231 



Spotted fever, control work 220-221 



Spraying machinery development for control of leaf-feeding insects 29 



