4 CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



rage. 



Cost of the Department ; its valiu' to the country 30 



Increase in cereals 30 



Other manifest gains 31 



Secretary Rusk's estimate 32 



Organization and duties of bureaus, divisions, and offices 33 



Weather Bureau 33 



Bureau of Animal Industry 33 



Division of Gardens and Grounds 34 



Division of Chemistry 34 



Division of Entomology 35 



Division of Sta tistics 35 



Division of Botany 35 



Division of Accounts and Disbursements 36 



Division of Forestry 36 



Division of Biological Survey 36 



Division of Pomology 36 



Division of A''egetable Physiology and Pathology 36 



Office of Experiment Stations 37 



Office of Fiber Investigations 37 



Division of Publications 37 



Office of Road Inquiry 38 



Division of Agrostology 38 



Division of Soils 38 



Section of Foreign Markets 38 



Library 39 



Museum 39 



Law creating the Department of Agriculture 41 



Change in rank of Department 42 



Law creating the Bureau of Animal Industry 43 



Transfer of Weather Bureau to the Department 45 



Law for public printing and binding 46 



Lauds for agricultural colleges 47 



Law establishing experiment stations 49 



Endowment of agricultural colleges 50 



Appropriations and disbursements 53-68 



Index 69-74 



LUSTRATIONS. 



The Department building Frontispiece. 



Plate I. Design of Department building as proposed by Mr. Le Due 16 



II. Justin S. Morrill aud Wm. H. Hatch 47 



Fig. 1. Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents 8 



2. Isaac Newton, Commissioner of Agriculture 10 



3. Horace Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture 12 



4. Frederick Watts, Commissioner of Agriculture 14 



5. Wm. G. Le Due, Commissioner of Agriculture 15 



6. Geo. B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture 17 



7. Norman J. Colman. Commissioner and Secretary of Agriculture 19 



8. Jeremiah M. Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture 22 



9. J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture 26 



