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Atlantic Ocean, western and northern all its known possible relations to agri- 

 Europe, and northern Asia. With this culture. There are laboratories of plant 

 substantial basis for the forecasting of and forest pathology, investigations of 

 the weather, the bureau issues storm diseases of fruits, plant-life history 

 signals, flood signals, and other mete- investigations, together with expen- 

 orological information for the benefit of mentation in cotton breeding, corn, to- 

 agriculture, commerce, and navigation, bacco, drugs, and poisonous plants and 

 The Forecast Division receives in charts tea culture, sugar beets, fruits, grains, 

 twice daily telegraphic reports of the forage crops, etc., with other groups 

 prevailing weather conditions through- devoted to farm management, crop 

 out the field of observation, and is able technology, soil bacteriology, water pur- 

 to give reliable information to shipping ification, alkali and drought resistance, 

 through 255 special storm-warning sta- and many other useful lines of work, 

 tions over and above all the weather- The Bureau of Chemistry is conduct- 

 bureau stations along the lakes and sea- ing original investigations on hundreds 

 coast. The Climatological Division, of different lines, which have already 

 with more than 3,600 meteoro- resulted in untold good to the public 

 logical stations, supplies, at the Gov- health, to the prosperity of the Amer- 

 ernment's expense, gratuitous informa- ican farmer, and is adding every day 

 tion to all parts of the country by tele- contributions to the stock of scientific 

 phone, railway, telegraph, train service, knowledge of the world, 

 regular mail service, and rural free de- The Bureau of Soils has surveyed 

 livery. There are many other divisions and mapped and analyzed the soils with 

 of this one bureau, each with its special reference to their utilities, always in 

 and valuable work. connection with their climatic surround- 



The Bureau of Animal Industry covers ings, 147,107 square miles of land in 

 everything relating to the live-stock in- forty-seven states and territories. It 

 dustry. It deals with the investigation, sends out circulars and bulletins and 

 control, and eradication of diseases of reports containing detailed descriptions 

 animals, the inspection and quarantine of soils and agricultural conditions, 

 of live stock, the inspection of meat and with suggestions for the improvement 

 meat-food products, with animal hus- of crops and methods of cultivation, 

 bandry and dairying. The bureau has with large scale lithograph maps show- 

 been able, from time to time, to stamp ing the distribution and the relations of 

 out diseases of cattle which have threat- soils to climate and organic life, 

 ened the whole cattle industry of the The laboratories take up such ques- 

 United States. tions as alkali and fertilizers, and with 



The Meat Inspection Division is now the many experiment stations offer free 

 carried on at 702 establishments in 196 to the whole people invaluable informa- 

 cities. Closely allied to this is the Path- tion on soil management, utilization, 

 ological Division, studying the diseases erosion, and questions of fertility, 

 of animals, and the Division of Zoology. The Bureau of Entomology, or the 

 which collects and describes animal "War Department," in the field of agri- 

 parasites of all kinds ; the Experiment culture, is what we might call the Gov- 

 Station, studying all these questions in ernment Bug Industry, and has a fasci- 

 their bearing on the public health, and nation all its own. There are bugs 

 questions of heredity in animals and which destroy plant life and animal life, 

 the making of better and stronger stock. There are big bugs and little bugs. It 

 Closely allied to this is the Animal costs the farmer to feed these terrifying 

 Husbandry Office, dealing with the and insiduous armies of Lilliputian 

 breeding and feeding of farm animals. Huns and Vandals more every year 

 poultry, etc. than it costs to run the United States 

 It is impossible to outline the thirty- Government, including the pension roll, 

 two separate and distinct groups consti- the army and the navy, and this for the 

 tuting the Bureau of Plant Industry, vegetarian bugs alone. This does not 

 through which plant life is studied in count those which leave with man and 



