lands otherwise suitable for agriculture; conducts field experiments and makes investigations in regard to construction and equipment in farm-drainage systems; gives advice and assistance in farm drainage; investigates the domestic water supply and drainage disposal of the farm; investigates and gives advice on the construction of farm buildings, on farm machinery, and on other ruralengineering problems.

General publications.-The Bureau of Public Roads prepares bulletins on road management; methods of road-building; improvement and maintenance of roads; road materials; bridge-building; farm-irrigation investigations; farm-drainage investigations; rural engineering, and on the administration of the Federal-aid Road Act.

Distribution, reports, lists, indexes, mailing lists, maps, and correspondence.— See Department publications, pages 88-90.

BUREAU OF MARKETS.

Principal administrative officials.-Chief; Chief Clerk; In charge of-Cotton Handling and Marketing, Cooperative Purchasing and Marketing, Market Surveys, Methods, and Costs, Market Grades and Standards, City Marketing and Distribution, Transportation and Storage, Marketing Direct Activities, Marketing Live Stock, Meats and Animal By-products, Market Business Practice, Grain and Hay Marketing Investigations, Seed Marketing Investigations, Marketing Cotton Seed and its Products, Marketing Dairy Products, Cotton Warehousing Investigations, Investigation and Demonstration of Cotton Standards and Cotton Testing, Rural Organization, Enforcement of the Cotton Futures Act; Foreign Marketing Investigations, Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables in Transit and Storage, Market News Service on Fruits and Vegetables, Market News Service on Live Stock and Meats, Market News Service on Dairy and Poultry Products, Market News Service on Grain, Hay, Feeds and Seeds, Food and Fertilizer Surveys, Food Supply Investigations, Investigation and Demonstration of Cotton Standards and Cotton Testing, Rural Organization, State Cooperation in Marketing Work, Grain Standardization, Enforcement of the Standard-Container Act, Enforcement of the Cotton-Futures Act, Enforcement of the Grain-Standards Act, Administration of the Warehouse Act.

General information and duties.-The studies of the Bureau of Markets cover such subjects as: Market conditions; demands for specific crops; sources of supply; methods of grading, standardizing, packing, and shipping farm products; the nature of the commercial transactions by means of which farm products move from the farm to the consumer; waste in marketing; methods of accounting and business practice for marketing agencies; profits in handling farm products with means for the reduction of those which are excessive; and cooperative associations of farmers for handling rural problems. Under regular appropriations, market news services are conducted for certain fruits and vegetables and live stock and meats. With the war emergency funds, this work has been greatly extended. Under the emergency fund, market reports are issued on dairy products, and on grain, seeds, and hay, and an inspection service, to determine the condition as to soundness of fruits and vegetables and other food products, has been inaugurated. The regulatory work conducted by the Bureau of Markets consists in the enforcement of the United States Cotton-Futures Act, the United States Grain-Standards Act, and the United States Standard-Container Act. The bureau also is charged with the administration of the Warehouse Act.

General publications.-The Bureau of Markets prepares bulletins on marketing and the distribution of agricultural products, including cotton handling and marketing; market surveys, methods, and costs; cooperative purchasing and marketing; market grades and standards; city marketing and distribution; transportation and storage of farm crops; marketing by parcel post and express; marketing live stock, meats, and animal by-products; marketing grain, hay, and seeds; marketing cotton seed and its products; marketing dairy products; cotton warehousing investigations; general business practice in marketing on the collecting and distributing of market information; reports on marketing live stock and meats; on investigations and demonstrations of cotton standards and cotton testing; on rural credit, insurance, and communication; on rural social and educational activities; cooperation in marketing work between the United States and the different States; on extension and demonstration work in marketing and distribution in rural organization; re

ports on the enforcement of the United States Cotton Futures Act; on the United States Warehouse Act; on the enforcement of the United States GrainStandards Act; and enforcement of the Standard-Container Act.

Distribution, reports, lists, indexes, mailing lists, maps, and correspondence.— See Department publications, pages 88-90.

INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE BOARD.

Principal administrative officials.-Chairman; Executive Officer.

General information and duties.-The Insecticide and Fungicide Board, created December 22, 1910, assists the Secretary of Agriculture in the enforcement of the insecticide act of 1910. Samples of insecticides are collected in the open market and examined to determine whether or not they are adulterated or misbranded under the provisions of the act.

Publications. Decisions based on the board's findings are contained in Service and Regulatory Announcements. The results of investigational work are published in the series of the appropriate bureau represented on the board (Bureaus of Entomology, Chemistry, Plant Industry, or Animal Industry).

FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD.

Principal administrative officials.—Chairman; Secretary; Entomological Inspectors; Pathological Inspectors; In charge of Entry of Plants and Plant Products under Restriction.

General information and duties.-The Federal Horticultural Board, created August 21, 1912, assists the Secretary of Agriculture in the enforcement of the plant-quarantine act of August 20, 1912. It is also charged with work looking to the eradication of the pink bollworm of cotton.

Publications. Decisions based on the board's findings are issued in the Service and Regulatory Announcements. The results of investigational work are published in the series of the appropriate bureau having representation on the board (Bureaus of Plant Industry and Entomology and the Forest Service).

Part IX.-DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

(For location of department and bureaus, see page 190.)

Principal administrative officials.-Secretary of Commerce, Assistant Secretary, Chief Clerk and Superintendent, Disbursing Clerk, Chief of Division of Appointments, Chief of Division of Publication, Chief of Division of Supplies. General information and duties.-The Secretary of Commerce is charged with the work of promoting the commerce of the United States and its mining, manufacturing, shipping, fishery, and transportation interests. His duties also comprise the following:

(1) The administration of the Lighthouse Service and the aid and protection to shipping thereby.

(2) The taking of the census, and the collection and publication of statistical information connected therewith.

(3) The making of coast and geodetic surveys.

(4) The collection of statistics relating to foreign and domestic commerce. (5) The inspection of steamboats, and the enforcement of laws relating thereto for the protection of life and property.

(6) The supervision of the fisheries as administered by the Federal Government.

(7) The supervision and control of the Alaskan fur-seal, salmon, and other fisheries.

(8) The jurisdiction over merchant vessels, their registry, licensing, measurement, entry, clearance, transfers, movement of their cargoes and passengers and laws relating thereto, and to seamen of the United States.

(9) The regulation of the enforcement and execution of the act of Congress relating to the equipment of ocean steamers with apparatus and operators for wireless communication.

(10) The custody, construction, maintenance, and application of standards of weights and measurements.

(11) The gathering and supplying of information regarding industries and markets for the fostering of manufacturing.

(12) And the formulation (in conjunction with the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Treasury) of regulations for the enforcement of the food and drugs act of 1906 and the insecticide act of 1910.

(13) He has power to call upon other departments for statistical data obtained by them.

Upon the organization of the Federal Trade Commission, created by the act approved February 26, 1914, the Bureau of Corporations ceased to exist as a bureau of the Department of Commerce and became a part of the Federal Trade Commission, and all pending investigation and proceedings of the former bureau were taken over by the Federal Trade Commission.

It is his further duty to make such special investigations and furnish such information to the President or Congress as may be required by them on the foregoing subject matters and to make annual reports to Congress upon the work of said department.

The Chief of the Diviston of Publications is charged by the Secretary of Commerce with the conduct of all business the department transacts with the Government Printing Office; the general supervision of printing, including the editing and preparation of copy, illustrating and binding, the distribution of publications, and the maintenance of mailing lists. The advertising done by the department is in his charge. He also keeps a record of all expenditures for the publishing work of the department and conducts the correspondence it entails.

Publications.-The division of publications issues at intervals a list of publications of all bureaus of the Department of Commerce available for distribution. It issues also, at the end of each month, a list of those printed during that month.

An Annual Report of the operations of the division is printed at the end of each fiscal year. This report is submitted to Congress and printed as a congressional document, in compliance with section 92 of the act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. L., 623).

These can be obtained by application to the Chief of Division of Publications, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C.

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS.

Principal administrative officials.-Director, Chief Clerk, Chief Statistician for Finance and Municipal Statistics, Chief Statistician for Manufactures, Chief Statistician for Population, Chief Statistician for Vital Statistics, Expert Special Agent in Charge of Revision and Results, Geographer, Expert Chiefs of Divisions.

General information and duties.-The Bureau of the Census is charged with the duty of taking the decennial censuses of the United States, of making certain other statistical investigations at regular intervals, and of collecting such special statistics as may be authorized by law from time to time. The act establishing the permanent Census Bureau requires that, after the completion of the regular decennial census, the Director of the Census shall decennially collect statistics relative to the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; crime, including judicial statistics pertaining thereto; wealth, public indebtedness and expenditures, and taxation; religious bodies; transportation by water; and the fishing industry, in cooperation with the Bureau of Fisheries. Every five years statistics must be collected relating to manufactures, street railways, electric light and power stations, and telephone and telegraph business. Annual statistics must be gathered relating to births and deaths in States and cities maintaining efficient registration systems; the finances and various governmental activities of cities having populations of 30,000 and over; the production and distribution of cotton; and the quantity of leaf tobacco on hand. Decennial, quinquennial, and biennial publications.-Under this heading are listed publications issued at intervals of ten years, five years, and two years, each being the latest of the series to which it belongs. There are also given a few which are not issued at regular intervals. All publications are of quarto size unless a different size is stated.

Population, 1910. (a) General report and analysis. (Vol. 1. Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1,373 pp.) Number, distribution; apportionment of representation; area; density of population; center of population; urban and rural population; population of cities; color; race, nativity; parentage (native or foreign); sex; marital condition; conjugal condition; birthplace; foreign born; mother tongue of foreign white stock; language, native, of foreign white stock; year of immigration; naturalization; citizenship of foreign born; age; voting age; militia age; school attendance; illiteracy; inability to speak English; dwellings and families; homes and families; ownership of homes. (The 16 chapters of this volume are also issued in the form of separate bulletins.) (b) Reports by States, with statistics for counties, cities, and other civil divisions Alabama to Montana. (Vol. II, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1,160 pp.)

(c) Reports by States, with statistics for counties, cities, and other civil divisions-Nebraska to Wyoming; Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. (Vol. III, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1.225 pp.)

Vols. II and III. Color; race; nativity; parentage; foreign born; sex; age; voting age; school age, and attendance; illiteracy; dwellings and families; homes and families; urban and rural; population in cities; citizenship of foreign born; naturalization; marital condition. (The contents of Vols. II and III are also issued in the form of separate bulletins, each relating to an individual State and to the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Porto Rico.) (d) Occupation Statistics. (Vol. IV, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 615 pp.)

This volume presents statistics showing number of gainfully employed persons 10 years of age and over, classified according to occupation in which engaged and according to sex, age, color or race, nativity, and parentage. (A summary of this report has been issued, in bulletin form. Two other bulletins have also been issued, one relating to cities of 100,000 and over, and the other to cities of 25,000 to 100.000.)

Agriculture, 1909 and 1910. (a) General report and analysis. (Vol. V, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 927 pp.) Acreage; value of farms and

farm property; tenure; tenancy; mortgages; color or race of farmers; nativity of farmers; live stock and live-stock products; slaughtering on farms; crops; irrigation; plantations in the South. (The 12 chapters of this volume are also issued in the form of separate bulletins.)

(b) Reports by States, with statistics for counties-Alabama to Montana. (Vol. VI, Thirteenth Census Reports; 977 pp.)

(c) Reports by States, with statistics for counties-Nebraska to Wyoming; Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. (Vol. VII, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1.013 pp.) Vols. VI and VII. (State sections appear in alphabetical order. The more important statistics are presented separately for each county in each State.) Number, size, and value of farms; value of farm property; acreage, improved and unimproved; improved and unimproved land; domestic animals; poultry: bees; tenure; tenancy; color or race of farmers; nativity of farmers; mortgages; live stock and live-stock products; slaughtering on farms; crops; irrigation. (The contents of these volumes are also issued in the form of separate bulletins, each relating to an individual State and to the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Porto Rico.)

The census of agriculture is taken decennially.

Manufactures, 1909. (a) General report and analysis. (Vol. VIII, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 845 pp.) Topics: Persons engaged in manufactures; proprietors, officers, and employees; employees; wage earners; capital; salaries and wages; cost of materials and fuel; expenses; power; products; value added by manufacture; character of ownership (corporation, individual or other); hours of labor; localization of industries.

(b) Reports by States, with statistics for principal cities. (Vol. IX, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 1,404 pp.) Topics: Persons engaged; proprietors, officers, and employees; wage earners; power, capital; salaries and wages; cost of materials and fuel; expenses; products; value added by manufacture. (The contents of this volume have been issued in the form of separate bulletins, each relating to an individual State and to the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico.)

(c) Reports for Principal Industries. (Vol. X, Reports of the Thirteenth Census: 979 pp.) Topics: This volume contains reports for 54 leading industries and groups of industries, in which are given statistics similar in scope to, but in greater detail than, those presented in Vol. VIII. (The contents of this volume have been issued in the form of 49 bulletins, 1 relating to manufactures in 13 metropolitan districts, and 48 relating to individual industries and groups of industries.)

Manufactures, 1914. Abstract; octavo, 722 pages. (The census of manufactures is taken quinquennially. The detailed results of the last inquiry, which covered the industrial operations of the calendar year 1914, have been published in the form of two series of bulletins, one containing statistics for individual States and the other for individual industries. These bulletins will later be bound together in the form of two or three large quarto volumes. The scope of the census is substantially the same as that for 1909.)

Mines and Quarries, 1909. Vol. XI, Reports of the Thirteenth Census; 369 pp.) Topics: Persons engaged; proprietors, officers, and employees; salaries and wages; hours of labor; products; cost of materials and supplies; royalties; rent; expenses; power; capital; character of organization (corporation, firm, individual, and other); contract work. (The sections of this report which relate to coal mining and to iron mining, respectively, have been published in the form of separate bulletins, one, of 55 pages, entitled "Coal," and the other of 25 pages, entitled "Iron mines.") (The census of mines and quarries is taken decennially. Annual statistics in regard to mineral products are published by the United States Geological Survey.)

Abstract of the Thirteenth Census, 1910. (569 pp., without supplement.) This publication presents condensed statistics relative to population (except occupations), agriculture, manufactures, and mines and quarries. It is issued in 53 editions, one without supplement and each of the others containing a supplement presenting detailed statistics relating to the four subjects named, for some one State and for the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Porto Rico. The State supplements are also issued separately.

Benevolent Institutions, 1910. (411 pp.) Topics: Institutions for the care of children; homes for care of adults or of adults and children; hospitals; sanitariums; dispensaries; institutions for the care of the blind and deaf; number and sex of inmates; receipts; expenditures; value of property.