CONTENTS 



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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ix 



New building needed ix 



Our duty to new possessions ix 



Summary x 



Weather Bureau xiv 



New ocean forecasts and international cooperation xiv 



The Galveston hurricane xv 



New forecast districts - xv 



Improvement in forecasts - . - xv 



Recent extension of weather service xvi 



Climate and crop work xvi 



Forecasts to farmers by rural free delivery xvi 



Wireless telegraphy xvii 



The merit systeua and the discipline of the Weather Bvireau xvii 



Bureau of Animal Industry xviii 



Animal exports xviii 



Inspection service for export animals xviii 



Inspection service for imi)ort animals xix 



TubercuUn test for imported cattle xx 



Meat inspection xx 



Control of indigenous diseases xx 



Pathological investigations xxii 



State restrictions on the interstate live-stock traffic xxii 



Bureau of Plant Industry xxiii 



Plant physiology and pathology xxiii 



Work on cotton diseases xxiii 



Diseases of orchard fruits xxiv 



Diseases of forest and construction timber xxiv 



Plant-breeding work xxv 



Nitrotren-gathering bacteria xxvi 



Botanical investigations and experiments xxvi 



New facts concerning Kentucky blue-grass seed xxvi 



Securing.a stand of Bermuda grass from seed xxvii 



Suj)eriority of American-growa clover seed xxvii 



A remedy for stock poisoning xxviii 



Studies of American fiber plants xxviii 



Tropical agriculture xxviii 



Grass and forage plant investigations xxix 



Range improvement xxx 



Grass gardens xxx 



Cooperative work with experiment stations xxxi 



Pomologi('al investigations xxxi 



Q Extension of fruit markets xxxii 



05 iMicoui-aging the prune industry oi the Pacific coast xxxii 



'""' < irowing European grapes in the South xxxii 



Experimental gardens and grounds xxxii 



r;^ The Arlington farm xxxiii 



Production of tea in the United States xxxiii 



CL Introduction of seeds and plants from foreign countries xxxiv 



'-I J Development of the rice industry xxxiv 



■ "1 Macaroni wheats xxxv 



New forage crops xxxv 



Hops and barley xxxvi 



American-grown Egyptian cotton xxxvi 



American dates xxxvi 



Congressional seed distribution xxxvii 



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