INDEX 



Accounts, in Division of Ac- 

 counts, loi ; in bureaus, 102 ; 

 audit of, in department, 103 ; 

 in Treasury, 103. 



Accounts and Disbursements, Di- 

 vision of, 47; functions, lOl. 



Adams Act, passage of, 29; ad- 

 ministration of, 55. 



Administration, definition of, 33. 



Administrative regulations, use 

 of, 70; interpretation of, 71. 



Agricultural Economics, 37. 



Agriculture, Board of, British, 

 14; American, 14. 



Agriculture, Department of, 

 raised to first rank, 23 ; cost 

 of, 31 ; growth of, 31 ; relation 

 to other departments, 34; or- 

 ganization, 36; reorganization, 

 37; growth of, 100, 109; ad- 

 ministration of health laws, 

 no; criticism of, in; outline 

 of organization, 115. 



Agriculture, definition of, 24. 



Animal Industry, Bureau of, es- 

 tablished, 22; powers of, 25; 

 functions of, 43; administra- 

 tion of Meat Inspection Act, 

 76; outline of organization, 



115- 



Appropriations, estimates of, 93 ; 

 preparation of, 93 ; criticism of 

 method of, 96; submission to 

 Congress, 97; amount of, 100, 

 124; allotment of, loi. 



Authorization, Letters of, 102. 



Berkshire Association for Pro- 

 motion of Agriculture, peti- 

 tion to Congress, 15; organ- 

 ized, 18. 



Biological Survey, Bureau of, 

 functions, 45 ; outline of or- 

 ganization, 117. 



Bureaus, organization of, 39, 40; 

 cooperation l)etwcen, 49; as- 

 signing functions to, 50. 



Cattle Quarantine Act, passage 

 of, 26. 



Charleston Society for Promo- 

 tion of Agriculture, organized, 

 18. 



Chemistry, Bureau of, func- 

 tions, 44; administration of 

 food and drugs act, 82; out- 

 line of organization, 116. 



Civil Service, in the Department 

 of Agriculture, 34. 



Colonial Policy of Great Britain, 

 12, 13. 



Columbian Agricultural Society, 

 18. 



Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 office created, 9. 



Committee on Agriculture, 

 House, creation of, 14; han- 

 dling of estimates, 98; criti- 

 cism of, 99; relation to depart- 

 ment, 113. 



Committee on Agriculture and 

 Forestry, Senate, creation of, 

 14; handling of estimates of 

 appropriations, 100. 



Constitutionality of agricultural 

 legislation, 11. 



Cooperation, between bureaus, 

 49; between executive depart- 

 ments, 51 ; with State institu- 

 tions, 54 ; receipt and expendi- 

 ture of funds under coopera- 

 tive acts, 104; form of agree- 

 ment, 119. 



Cotton Futures Act. passage of, 

 28; provisions of, 87; admin- 

 istration of, 88; settlement of 

 disputes, 90; crticism of, 9-- 



Cotton Standards, establishment 

 of, 91. 



County Agent. 60. 113. 



Crop Estimates, Bureau of, 

 functions. 45 ; outline of or- 

 ganization, 117. 

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