The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-12
YEAR BOOK WILL
 SOON BE ISSUED DepartmentOf Agriculture's Annual Publication OF VALUE TO FARMER Chapters Will Interest Farmers of all Sections of the United States.
 Tribute To Senator
 Deliver

washinptpn May 11.-tjpecldl.)- .)-l he | seventeenth volume of the Yearbook u9io) will soon be issued by the United states department of agriculture. In appear
 ance and makeup it differs but little rom
 It's predecessors; it contains 8 artlcies'
 49 full-page illustrations, of which eigh' are colored, and 31 text figures.
 The departments appreciation of the service of the late Senator Jonathan Prem
 nss Dolliyer rendered to agriculture dur ing his public career is expressed m the selection of a portrait of him as frontis- piece.
 | The fourteenth annual report of the sec retary for the fiscal year ended June | 30. 1910, occupies the first 156 pages ana l gives the general report of the opera lions of the department" which, under
 the law, must form a part of the volume.
 This report, supplemented by the statis- | tical matter found in the appendix, gives more complete and comprehensive sum mary of agricultural conditions In the United States than can be found in any other single publication.
 The next a2O pages, divided between 2S
 articles contributed by many members Of the scientific force of the department
 contain data upon many of the important
 questions now prominent in the public eve. and equally vital to the agricultural
 and urban population, both as producers and consumers of the foodstuff of the na- | ton.
 The importance of the forests to the residents of the country, and the promi- | hence of that subject In department work | is reflected in four papers, namely. "The Management of Second-Growth Sprout Forest" Progress in Saving Forest waste," Fire Prevention and Control on the National Forests and "Injuries to
 Forests and Forest Products by Round | headed Borers"
 Settlers in many parts of the west will be interested in the two papers relat- ing to "The Agricultural Duty of Water and Mountain Snowfall Observations and
 Evaporation Investigations in the United States" while everyone will be interested
 in the two articles, one on "The Progress
 and Present Status of the Good Roads
 Movement in the United States" and the other, describing the "Use of Bituminous Dust Preventives and Road Binders" | Those engaged In animal husbandry
 will find the discussion of Some of the
 More Important Ticks of the Uniteb
 States most timely, and the paper on
 the "Eradication of Cattle Tuberculosis
 in the District of Columbia will not only
 engage the attention of those directly ben efltted by that accomplishment, but will | encourage other communities to renewed efforts for greater success in the same
 line. Grading of Cream" and the Effect
 of the Present Method of Handling Eggs i on the Industry and Product are two
 more papers which to dairymen and poul- | try-raisers will be valuable.
 That the general farmer. the fruit
 grower, the trucker and the grower of special crops hold deservedly large space | in the thought and activities of the de- 1 partment Is demonstrated by the nine
 papers on-"supply and Wages of Farm
 Labor" "Nitrogen-Gathering Plants"
 sInsect Enemies of Tobacco in the
 limited States" "Increased Yields of Corn
 From Hybrid Seed" "The Utilization of
 crop Plants in Paper Making,' Cooper
 ation in the Handling and Marketing of 1. Fruit" "Precooling of Fruit" "Camphor I cultivation in the United States" and the illustrated article on Promising New Fruits of the Year 19l0.'
 The department does not leave the farm product as soon as produced. but as itz destiny 10 consumption, articles dealin6 l with the proper. best and most economical use of farm products as food for man are furnished on "Chssse and Other suosu