Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture, for the Year Ended June 30, 1908: Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, Reports of Chiefs Agricultural science Plant and animal breeding Introductions Farm management Soils and their treatment Vegetable pathology Insect pests Useful birds Various discoveries and improvements Marketing plant products Animal industry Cr0p reporting Agricultural chemistry Pure food and drugs Road improvement Weather service Forest Service Reclamation Act Agricultural education Growth of the Department of Agriculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.