448 ' INDEX. 



Squirrels, ground — Pa ^ c 



destruction of forage, control methods, cost 19 



extermination 238 



Standards — 



agricultural products, establishment 3,7,9-10 



cotton — 



color, work of Solicitor 349-364 



demonstrations 9 



foods and drugs, importance, recommendation 3G 



grain, establishment 4, 9 



market, investigations 3S9-391 



Starling, European, economic standing, studies 241 



State Cooperative Food and Drug Control, Office, creation and work 33 



States- 

 cooperation in foot-and-mouth disease eradication 67-68, 7"-! 



marketing problems cooperation of Markets Office 403 



Relations Service — 



cooperation in hog-cholera control work 72 



cooperation with Markets Office 413 



library, work, 1916 292, 295 



organization, authority, etc 287 



report of A. C. True as Director 297-327 



Statistics- 

 current periodicals in library 290 



food supply of United States 11 



foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, 1914-1916 6S 



hog-cholera work, 1912-1915 71 



library, form of American Library Association 296 



meat, inspection 101-108, 105 



publication work of Department 258-263 



Stigmatose, fruit, investigations and control work 142 



Stock raising, development, and protection 18-20 



Stockers, wintering experiments, West Virginia and North Carolina 77 



Storage — 



apples, studies 152 



food crops, investigations 391 



Stored products, insect pests, studies and control work 232, 233 



Stores, cooperative, business methods and accounts 387 



Storms, tropical, occurrence in Texas and Mississippi, 1915, fatalities, 



property losses, weather warnings 49. 52, 56 



Storm-warning stations, number, and method and scope of work 53-54 



Strainers, milk, experiments 96 



Straw importations, supervision 110 



Strawberries, market reports, cooperative publication 60 



Stumpage sales, data compilation 189 



Sudan grass, seed production, work 144 



Sugar — 



crop reports, Crop Estimates Bureau 297 



beets. See Beets. 



new, discovery in avocado, note 193 



region, meteorological service, studies 58 



Sugar-beet insects, investigations 229-230 



Sugar-cane insects, studies and control work 220 



Sullys Hill Game Preserve, conditions and plans „_ 24<'> 



Supplies on farms, estimates, various months 280 



Surveys — ■ 



market, methods and cost 388 



rural, social and educational activities 405 



Swamp-fever investigations 116 



Sweet potatoes — 



foot-rot, control work 140 



grades, establishments 7 



Sweet-potato grades, investigations . 390 



Swiss cheese, bacteriological studies 95 



Tannery refuse, infection with anthrax, bacteriological studies 113-114 



Tanning industry, studies 190 



Taylor, Wm, A., report as Plant Industry Bureau Chief 137-154 



