Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 1900, Vol. 1 This Department has undertaken to work along these lines. Dur ing the past year its operations have been wide, extended and most important, covering the whole list of subjects outlined in my report for 1899. The extent of the operations of the Department can be partly understood from the following recital of the work which it embraces: The Farmers' Institutes; Crop Reports; The Inspection of Foods; Enforcement of the Pure Food Laws; Dairy and Food Statistics; The Purchase of Forest Lands; The Preservation and Control of our Forests; The Conservation of Water; The Improvement of Soils; The Control of Injurious Insects; Blight, Mildew, Infectious Disease among Trees; Market Gardening; Flower Gardening; Or chard Culture; The Inspection of Cattle Herds; The Prevention of Disease among Domestic Animals; The Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases among Animals; The Analyses of Fertilizers; The Publication of Bulletins upon Important Farm Topics; Special Scientific Investigations into the Problems of Agriculture; The Publication of Reports; Dissemination of Information upon Good Roads; Agricultural Education in the Public Schools and Colleges; Legislation for the Benefit of Agriculture; The Aid and Encourage ment of Agricultural Organizations; Country and Village Improve ment Societies, and correspondence upon a wide range of questions which interest agricultural people. These and other subjects are a part of the work of the Department of Agriculture of this State. This work is distributed among several Divisions or Bureaus of the Department, and each Division, through its official head, is entrusted with carrying out of the details which the class that it embraces involves. The following summary shows the classification and the particular Division to which each class of subjects is assigned. 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.