CONTENTS 



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Department Bulletin No. 1256. — Tobacco Diseases and Their 

 Control : 



Introduction 1 



The nature of plant diseases 3 



Losses from disease 3 



The plant bed as a source of infection 4 



Plant-bed sanitation 4 



The sterilization of soil for plant beds 5 



Stem or stalk diseases 7 



Root diseases 18 



Leaf diseases 25 



Injuries due to physical agencies 41 



Unimportant or rare diseases not otherwise classified 41 



Damage in curing and fermentation 43 



Diseases of tobacco in foreign countries 48 



Bibliography 50 



Department Bulletin No. 1257. — Land Reclamation Policies in 

 the United States: 



Past land reclamation policies 3 



Federal policies 3 



Swamp land acts 3 



Relation of the homestead act to reclamation policies 3 



Act of 1866 4 



The desert land act 4 



Irrigation survey 5 



The Carey Act •_ 6 



Reclamation act 7 



Irrigation district act 13 



State land reclamation policies 14 



General considerations 14 



Irrigation districts 14 



California State land settlement 20 



Proposed Federal and State cooperation 23 



Drainage reclamation 24 



State drainage policies 24 



Summary of acreage reclaimed 27 



The future of reclamation 34 



Conclusions 40 



Department Bulletin No. 1258. — Farm Organization and Man- 

 agement in Clinton County, Indiana. — A Business Analysis of 

 100 Farms, in Forest and Johnson Townships, for Eight Years — 

 1910, and 1913 to 1919, Inclusive: 



Description of area 2 



Definition of terms 3 



Organization and management of 100 farms 4 



Livestock production 20 



Work animals 25 



Man labor 26 



Farm capital 28 



Farm receipts 30 



Farm expenses 34 



Farm earnings 35 



Quantities of products sold 42 



Prices received for products 42 



Acres, crop yields per acre, etc 43 



Farm tenure 50 



Summary 66 



