Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture, for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1901: Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, Departmental Reports Other work of this Division may be summarized as follows: During the past year the insects affecting the violet, the rose, and other orna mental plants have been studied. Work has been done in cooperation with the Bureau of Soils looking to the eradication of mosquitoes. A study of flies has indicated the importance of these creatures in the carriage of internal diseases. Systematic work is being projected to deal with the cotton-boll weevil of Texas. Public roads. - This Office studies the condition of the roads, pub lishes information with regard to their improvement, the obstacles in the way, and the best means of securing better highways. Object lesson roads have been built in nine States during the past year. The laboratory for testing the chemical and physical properties of road materials, conducted under the direction of the Bureau of Chemistry, has been in successful operation during the year. An agent of the Department is located in each of four geographic subdivisions of the United States to study and report upon local conditions. 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.