CONTENTS. 5 



Department Bulletin 83. — Farmers' Institute and Agricultural Ex- 

 tension Work in the United States in 1913 — Continued. Page. 



Illustrated lectures 11 



Correspondence schools 11 



Aid to agriculture by transportation companies 12 



Agricultural extension work in foreign countries 13 



State reports 19 



State officials in charge of farmers' institutes 24 



Statistics of farmers' institutes, 1913 26 



Statistics of agricultural extension, 1913 34 



Department Bulletin 84. — Experiments with Udo, the New Japanese 

 Vegetable: 



Introduction 1 



Early experiments with udo 5 



Relatives of udo • 6 



Varieties of udo 7 



Method of culture 8 



The blanching of the shoots 10 



Preparation for the table 12 



Recipes 13 



Climatic requirements of udo 14 



Diseases of udo 14 



Reasons for the introduction of udo 14 



Department Bulletin 85. — The Cost op Pasteurizing Milk and Cream: 



Introduction 1 



Tests of milk-pasteurizing apparatus 2 



Tests of cream-pasteurizing apparatus 6 



Conclusions 12 



Department Bulletin 86. — Tests op Wooden Barrels: 



Object of the tests. 1 



Material 1 



Barrel tests 2 



Minor tests : 3 



Results 4 



General observations of nature of failures 5 



Changes in design as indicated by the character of the failures 5 



Tests of made-up barrels 6 



Suggestions regarding tests of shipping containers 7 



Department Bulletin 87. — Flumes and Fluming: 



Increasing importance of flumes 1 



Forms of lumber transported by flumes 2 



Types of flumes 3 



Feeders 17 



Tunneling 18 



Small holding reservoirs at different points of flume 19 



Reservoir ponds at head of flumes 20 



Branch flumes 22 



Switches and Y's 22 



The use of "snubs" in unloading material from a flume 23 



Reinforcement of flumes at points where extensive loading is to be done. . 23 



Telephones a valuable adjunct to flume operation 25 



Sawed material for stringers, sills, braces, etc., not a necessity, but usually 



more economical 25 



Water used in fluming sometimes available for irrigation purposes 26 



Brailing and accoutering lumber 26 



