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Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1904 Since my last report progress has been made in securing cooperation with the experiment stations of the several States and Territories; some of the Bureaus of the Department make research in conjunction with all the stations. Preliminary steps have been taken to conduct fowling and breeding experiments in several States looking to the development of breeds of animals suitable to our conditions of climate and soils, and capable of meeting the demands of commerce at home and abroad. Emergencies arising through the invasion of the cotton-growing States by the boll weevil, a Central American insect that has done much damage in Texas and threatens the entire cotton-growing section of our country, have been met by vigorous work that promises to enable the planters to grow crops in defiance of the pest. The spread over several of the mountain States of a cattle mange required vigorous intervention by the Department. It was necessary to detail a large force of experts to supervise the dipping of the herds in order to eradicate the parasite. Cooperation with most of the States has been arranged, and the rest promise to secure State legislation to compel all flock and herd masters to clean their stock. The demand in the States for experts to supervise the building of roads suggests the education of engineers in the road laboratory for that work. The efforts of the Department to create a bardy orange tree that would produce a sweet orange have at last been successful. 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,