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Federal Specifications Board. Interdepartmental Board of Contracts and Adjust ments. Federal Real Estate Board. Permanent Conference on Printing. Interdepartmental Board on Simplified Office Procedure. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Organization Secretary of Agriculture---- Assistant Secretary Assistant to Secretary-- Director of Personnel and Busi- Solicitor-- Weather Bureau. Bureau of Agricultural Econom- Bureau of Animal Industry. Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Soils. Bureau of Entomology. Bureau of Biological Survey- W. M. Jardine. W. W. Stockberger. Lloyd S. Tenny, Chief. F. G. Cottrell, Director. Office of Experiment Stations. E. W. Allen, Chief. C. B. Smith, Chief. Federal Horticultural Board. C. L. Marlatt, Chair man. man. Insecticide and Fungicide J. K. Haywood, Chair- Charge. Duties and Functions Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture is charged with the work of promoting agriculture in its broadest sense. He exercises general supervision and control over the affairs of the department and formu lates and establishes the general policies to be pursued by its various branches and offices. These activities include investigations of the production, marketing, and utilization of crops and livestock, and control of the diseases and insect pests to which they are subject; maintenance of nation-wide weather service, crop and livestock estimating, and market-reporting services; administration of the national forests; and the enforce ment of nearly 40 regulatory laws, among which are the packers and stockyards, future trading, and meat-inspec tion acts. He also administers the appropriations for Federal-aid highway and forest-road construction and the Federal grants to State colleges for agricultural exten sion and research work. The Secretary of Agriculture U.S. D. A.-10-1-26 serves as a member of the War Finance Corporation, Federal Board for Vocational Education, Federal Power Commission, and Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission. Assistant Secretary.-The Assistant Secretary of Agri culture assists the Secretary in the direction and general administration of the affairs of the department, and in the absence of the Secretary becomes the Acting Secretary of Agriculture. Assistant to Secretary.-The Assistant to Secretary as sists the Secretary in all lines of administrative activities. Director of Scientific Work.-The Director of Scientific Work coordinates all department scientific work and all research work of the bureaus and offices. The Office of Experiment Stations, which is attached to this branch, exercises the supervision provided by law over the work and expenditures of the State agricultural experiment stations, serving as a general clearing house for the national system and assisting in various ways to promote its efficiency; it supervises the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations maintained by the department in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, and compiles and disseminates informa tion regarding the progress of agricultural research through the Experiment Station Record and other publications. Director of Regulatory Work.-The Director of Regulatory Work coordinates all department regulatory work and all the regulatory work of the bureaus and offices. Director of Extension Work.-The Director of Extension Work coordinates all department extension work and all the extension work of the bureaus and offices. Attached to this branch is the Extension Service, which is composed of the Office of Cooperative Extension Work, Office of Exhibits, Office of Motion Pictures, Office of Demonstrations on Reclamation Projects, and Office of Agricul tural Instruction. The Office of Cooperative Extension Work represents the Secretary of Agriculture in his relations with the State agricultural colleges, under the acts of Congress granting funds for these institutions for cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, and in carrying out the provisions of acts of Congress making appropriations to this department for farmers' cooperative demonstration work, for studies relating to courses in agricultural schools, and for farmers' institutes. All extension work of the department clears through this service. Director of Information.-The Office of Information was formed by the Secretary to handle all the publications and informational policies and activities, including the editing, illustrating, and printing of publications, and the preparation of material for the press and for radio broadcasting. It coordinates the informational activities of the bureaus and offices, conducts the business of the department with the Public Printer, the Congressional Joint Committee on Printing, and the Permanent Joint Conference on Printing, and administers the regulations regarding publication of articles by department workers. Director of Personnel and Business Administration.-The work of the various offices attached to the Office of the Secretary and engaged in personnel and other branches of business administration is carried on by the Office of Personnel and Business Administration. This change was made in the interest of efficiency and economy and relieves the Secretary of many details. This office operates through two major branches; one handles personnel matters and the other general business matters of the department. The director cooperates closely with the other directors of the department and with the chiefs of bureaus and offices. This office brings together under one head the (1) administration of personnel, (2) salary classification, (3) inspection, (4) the office of chief clerk and the section of accounts serving units of the Office of the Secretary, (5) purchases and sales, (6) traffic management, (7) accounts and disbursements, and (8) the budget and finance work. Solicitor. The Solicitor is the legal adviser of the Sec. retary and the heads of the several branches of the department. He directs and supervises all law work of the department. Weather Bureau.-The Weather Bureau has charge of the forecasting of the weather; the issue and display of weather forecasts, and storm, cold-wave, frost, and flood warnings; the gauging and reporting of river stages; the maintenance and operation of the United States Weather Bureau telegraph and telephone lines; the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigators; the reporting of temperature and rainfall conditions for agricultural interests; and the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to determine and record the climatic conditions of the United States, including investigations in aerology in the aid of aviation, in seismology, and in volcanology. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.-The Bureau of Mar kets and Crop Estimates and the Offices of Farm Management and Farm Economics were united in one bureau on July 1, 1922, by the act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1923. This bureau conducts investigations in the costs of production and marketing, farm organization, farm financial relations, farm labor, agricultural history and geography, land economics, and the problems of rural life. The bureau also acquires and disseminates information regarding the marketing and distributing of farm and nonmanufactured food products, and collects, compiles, summarizes, interprets, and makes public statistical data relating to agricultural production. Studies are made of marketing methods, conditions, and costs, with regard to the standardization, transportation, handling, and storage of agricultural products. Demonstration work is conducted in connection with these studies. Reports are issued by the bureau which contain information on the supply, commercial movement, disposition, and market prices of grains, cotton, fruits and vegetables, livestock and meats, dairy and poultry products, and hay, feed, and seed. Information is also procured and published with regard to the supply of and demand for certain agricultural products in foreign countries. Summaries and analyses covering this information are published in the weekly Crops and Markets," which embodies current statistics relating to the acreage, yield, condition, and production of crops, numbers of livestock, and value of farm products. Other special reports are issued at intervals. A market inspection service on fruits and vegetables is now available at many of the principal producing and receiving centers of the country and on butter at five of the principal terminal markets. Regulatory work is performed in connection with the enforcement of the United States cotton futures act, the United States grain standards act, the standard container act, and in connection with the administration of the United States warehouse act. Center Market, in the city of Washington, is also operated by this bureau. 66 Bureau of Animal Industry.-The Bureau of Animal Industry has charge of the work of the department relating to the livestock industry, with the exception of dairying. It enforces the laws passed by Congress to control and U.S. D. A.-10-1-26 eradicate animal diseases and parasites. The meat inspectors of this bureau are located in the important live stock centers and inspect all meat to see that it is free from disease and fit to eat. It helps the farmers of the United States to raise better livestock and is in charge of the extensive campaign to replace scrub livestock with purebreds. It has quarantine stations at seaports and along the borders of the country that inspect animals received from foreign lands to prevent introduction of foreign diseases and livestock pests. It has charge of extensive lines of investigation work and has livestock experiment stations located throughout the country. Bureau of Dairy Industry.-The Bureau of Dairy Indus try investigates problems relating to the dairy industry, under the following general projects: Bacteriology and chemistry of milk; breeding and nutrition of dairy cattle; dairy cattle management; dairy sanitation; dairy plant management; market milk; the manufacture of dairy products and by-products; and the introduction into the field of new principles and methods of dairying. Bureau of Plant Industry.--The Bureau of Plant Indus try studies plant life in all its relations to agriculture. The scientific work of the bureau is divided into 30 distinct groups, over each of which is placed a scientifically trained officer, who reports directly to the chief and associate chief of the bureau. The work of the bureau is conducted on the project plan, the investigations under each of the offices being arranged by group projects consisting of closely related lines of work, and each group project being further divided into projects. Forest Service.-The Forest Service is concerned with the production and utilization of the forest crops of the United States. The work involves the following general functions: The administration and protection of the 146 national forests whose total area is over 157,000,000 acres; investigations of the problems of timber growing and protection, wood properties and the manufacture and economical utilization of wood and wood products, and forest economics; cooperation with State, municipal, and private owners of forest lands in the protection and proper use of their resources; and dissemination of in formation about the various phases of forestry and its relation to the public welfare, which is done by publications, lectures, exhibits, pictures, demonstrations, and personal conferences. The machinery for carrying on this work is composed of the general administrative offices at Washington, D. C., eight districts in immediate charge of the national forests, eight forest experiment stations, three grazing experiment stations, and the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis. In the headquarters and district offices are the following branches: Finance and accounts, operation, forest management, grazing, lands, research, engineering, and public relations. Bureau of Chemistry.-The Bureau of Chemistry conducts investigations relating to the application of chemistry to agriculture; develops methods for the utilization of agricultural crops; makes biological investigations of food and drug products, including the physiological effects of such products on the human organism; develops methods for the manufacture of table sirup and sugar; investigates the composition, action, and applica tion of insecticides and fungicides; develops methods for the prevention of plant-dust explosions and fires in cotton gins and cotton-oil mills; investigates the weighing, grading, handling, transportation, and uses of rosin and turpentine; conducts experiments on the utilization, for coloring, medicinal, and technical purposes, of raw ma terials grown or produced in the United States; enforces the act to prevent the importation of impure and un |