Chapter 1486. Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five
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CHAP. 1486.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five. April 23, 1904. [[H. R. 11825](/us/bill/58/hr/11825).] [[Public, No. 150](/us/pl/58/150).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Agricultural Department appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Pay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of Secretary of Agriculture, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, who shall be superintendent of the Department buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars; one law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; private secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thousand five hundred dollars; ste-277nographer to the Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand four hundred dollars; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand six hundred dollars; one appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; one Chief of Supply Division, two thousand dollars; one telegraph and telephone operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks class two, two thousand eight hundred dollars; seven clerks of class one, eight thousand four hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one engineer, who shall be captain of the watch, one thousand six hundred dollars; one fireman, who shall be steam fitter, nine hundred dollars; one assistant fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant fireman, six hundred dollars; one electrician, one thousand dollars; one plumber, nine hundred dollars; one blacksmith, eight hundred and forty dollars; nine night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; two day watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one mechanic, one thousand one hundred dollars; six messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand and forty dollars; two assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, seventy-three thousand nine hundred dollars.
Office of the Secretary: Laborers and charwomen: One messenger Laborers, etc. or laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; three charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; five charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars; for extra laborers and emergency employment, one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. Total for office of the Secretary, seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
WEATHER BUREAU. Weather Bureau Salaries, Weather Bureau: Office of Chief of Weather Bureau: Salaries. One Chief of Bureau, five thousand dollars; one Assistant Chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars; three professors of meteorology, at three thousand dollars each, for duty in the city of Washington or elsewhere, as the needs of the Bureau may demand, nine thousand dollars; one professor of meteorology who shall have charge of the river and flood service, three thousand dollars; two professors of meteorology, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, for duty in the city of Washington or elsewhere, as the needs of the Bureau may demand, five thousand dollars; one chief of climate and crop division, at two thousand dollars, for duty in the city of Washington or elsewhere, as the needs of the Bureau may demand; one chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars; one librarian and climatologist, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four, nine thousand dollars; one chief of division of supplies, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks of class three, nine thousand six hundred dollars; seventeen clerks of class two, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-five clerks of class one, thirty thousand dollars; sixteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each, sixteen thousand dollars; seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, six thousand three hundred dollars; four copyists or typewriters, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; one copyist or typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one chief mechanic, one thousand four hundred dollars; one skilled mechanic, one thousand two hundred 278 dollars; five skilled mechanics, at one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; one battery man, eight hundred and forty dollars; six skilled artisans, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand and forty dollars; five messengers or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; six messengers or laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; thirteen messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at six hundred dollars each, seven thousand eight hundred dollars; four messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; five messengers, messenger boys or laborers, at four hundred and fifty dollars each, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one charwoman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
Fuel, lights, etc. Fuel, lights, and repairs, Weather Bureau: For fuel, lights, repairs, and other expenses for the care and preservation of the public buildings and grounds of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington, eight thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses, Weather Bureau: For stationery, blank books, necessary scientific and other publications; furniture and repairs to same; freight and express charges; subsistence, care, and purchase of horses for official purposes only; repairs of harness; advertising, dry goods, twine, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, washing towels, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington, ten thousand dollars.
Officials outside of Washington. Salaries, Weather Bureau: Outside of the city of Washington: Professors of Meteorology, inspectors, district forecasters, local forecasters, section directors, observers, assistant observers, operators, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other necessary employees, for duty in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, who, without additional expense to the Government, may hereafter, Leaves of absence. in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be granted leaves of absence not to exceed thirty days in any one year, four hundred and ninety-two thousand three hundred dollars.
General expenses. Maintenance. General expenses, Weather Bureau: Every expenditure requisite for and incident to the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological observation stations in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, including the purchase of scientific and other publications, stationery, furniture, instruments, storm-warning towers, and all other necessary supplies and materials; for rents of offices; for traveling expenses; for freight and express charges; for telegraphing, telephoning, or cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the service; for maintenance and repair of seacoast telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; for investigations on climatology; for experiments in wireless telegraphy; for river observations and reports; for rain observations and reports; for snow observations and reports; for ice observations and reports; for crop observations and reports; for aerial observations and reports; for storm and other warnings and reports; for hurricane observations and reports, including pay of 279 special observers and display men, none of whom shall receive more than twenty-five dollars per month; and for the maintenance of a Printing office. printing office in the city of Washington, including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for printing weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, monthly reviews, and other publications, and for pay of assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, and folders and feeders, five hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars.
Buildings, Weather Bureau: For the purchase of sites and the Buildings for observatories, etc. erection of not less than live buildings for use as Weather Bureau observatories, and for all necessary labor, materials, and expenses, plans and specifications to be prepared and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, and work done under the supervision of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, including the purchase of instruments, furniture, supplies, flagstaffs, and storm-warning towers to properly equip these stations: *Provided*, That if any of the money for these several buildings *Proviso*.
Use of balances. remains unexpended for the special purposes for which it is appropriated, so much of it as is necessary may be expended for the repair, improvement, and equipment of any other buildings or grounds owned by the Government and occupied by the Weather Bureau, forty-eight thousand dollars. Cables and land lines, Weather Bureau: For the purchase and Cable and land lines. construction of cables and land lines to connect Fort Canby, Washington, with Flavel, Oregon; North Manitou Island, Michigan, with South Manitou Island, Michigan; and the repairs to the telegraph line from Norfolk, Virginia, to Hatteras, North Carolina, and the extension of the same to Roanoke Island, North Carolina, including necessary labor and materials for all of the above-named cables and lines, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Total for Weather Bureau, one million three hundred and thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. Bureau of Animal Industry. Salaries, Bureau of Animal Industry: One Chief of Bureau, Salaries. four thousand five hundred dollars, and for additional compensation while the office is held by the present incumbent, five hundred dollars; one assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk of Bureau, two thousand dollars; one chief of inspection division, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant chief of inspection division, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one chief of dairy division, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant chief of dairy division, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one chief of pathological division, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants in pathological division, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant in pathological division, eight hundred and forty dollars; one chief of biochemic division, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant in biochemic division, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant in biochemic division, one thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant in biochemic division, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant in biochemic laboratory, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one chief of quarantine division, two thousand dollars; one zoologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one veterinary inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one Veterinary inspectors, etc. veterinary inspector, one thousand six hundred dollars; two veterinary inspectors, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars; one superintendent of experiment station, two thousand dollars; one assistant superintendent, one thousand dollars; one clerk class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one editorial Clerks. clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk class three, one 280 thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks class two, nine thousand eight hundred dollars; live clerks class one, six thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each, seven thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; seven clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars;
Messengers, etc. four messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; two skilled laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; one illustrator, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, eighty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. General expenses. General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry: For carrying Vol. 23, p. 31. out the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, Vol. 26, p. 414. and the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing for an inspection of meats and animals, and the provisions Vol. 26, p. 1089. of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, Inspection of live cattle, etc. providing for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate and foreign commerce, Treatment of export cattle.
Vol. 28, p. 732. and for other purposes, and to prescribe rules and regulations for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and the amendatory Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate and foreign commerce, and for Suppressing diseases. Vol. 32, p. 791. other purposes, and also the provisions of the Act approved February second, nineteen hundred and three, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes: *Provisos*.
Live horses. Waiving inspection certificates. *Provided*, That live horses be entitled to the same inspection as other animals herein named: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may in his discretion waive the requirement of a certificate with beef and other products, which are exported to countries that do not require such inspection, one million two hundred and fifty Preventing diseases among animals. thousand dollars; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient, in such manner as he may think best, in the collection of information concerning live stock, dairy and other animal products, and to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, blackleg, tuberculosis, sheep scab, glanders or farcy, hog cholera, and other diseases of animals, and for this purpose to employ as many persons in the city of Purchase, etc., of diseased animals.
Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary, and to expend any part of this sum in the purchase and destruction of diseased or exposed animals and the quarantine of the same whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculosis, or other diseases of animals from one State to another; Experiment station, Bethesda, Md. Quarantine stations. for improving and maintaining the Bureau Experiment Station at Bethesda, Maryland; to establish, improve, and maintain quarantine stations, and to provide proper shelter and equipment for the care of neat cattle, domestic and other animals imported at such ports as may Reports. be deemed necessary; for printing and publishing such reports relating Foreign markets for farm products. to animal industry as he may direct; and the Secretary of Agriculture may use so much of this sum as he deems necessary for promoting the extension and development of foreign markets for dairy and other farm products of the United States, and for suitable transportation of the same; and such products may be bought in open market and disposed of at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he is authorized to apply the moneys received from the sales of such products toward the continuation and repetition of such experi-281mental exports; and the Secretary is hereby authorized to rent a suitable Laboratory. building in the District of Columbia, at an annual rental of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be used as a laboratory for said Bureau of Animal Industry; and the employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry outside of the city of Washington may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, without additional expense to the Government, be granted leaves of absence Leaves of absence. not to exceed fifteen days in any one year: *Provided*, That the Secretary Inspection of dairy products.
Vol. 26, p. 1090. Vol. 28, p. 732. of Agriculture may construe the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the inspection of live cattle and products thereof, to include dairy products intended for exportation to any foreign country and may apply, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, the provisions of said Act for inspection and certification appropriate for ascertaining the purity and quality of such products, and may cause the same to be so marked, stamped or labeled as to secure their identity and make known in the markets of foreign countries to which they may be sent from the United States their purity, quality, and grade; and all the provisions of said act relating to live cattle and products thereof for export shall apply to dairy products so inspected and certified.
For experiments in animal breeding and feeding in cooperation with Animal breeding, etc. State Agricultural Stations, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total Bureau of Animal Industry, one million three hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. Bureau of Plant Industry. Bureau of Plant Industry, salaries: One plant physiologist Salaries. and pathologist, who shall be Chief of Bureau, four thousand five hundred dollars; one plant physiologist and pathologist, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one botanist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one pomologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one agrostologist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant botanist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant pomologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant agrostologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk class four, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; nine clerks class two, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; nine clerks class one, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; in all, sixty-three thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.
General expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry: Vegetable General expenses. Vegetable pathological, etc., investigations. pathological and physiological investigations: Investigating the nature of diseases injurious to fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, vegetable, and other useful plants; experiments in the treatment of the same; the study of plant physiology in relation to crop production and the improvement of crops by breeding and selection; to investigate the diseases affecting citrus fruits, pineapples, and truck crops grown during the winter in the Southern States; to investigate canaigre and other tannin-bearing plants; to investigate and report upon the diseases affecting plants on the Pacific coast; to originate or introduce improved varieties of fruits and vegetables in cooperation with the section of seed and plant introduction; to study the relation of soil and climatic conditions to diseases of plants, particularly with reference to the California vine diseases and diseases of the sugar beet, in cooperation 282 with the Bureau of Soils, and for other purposes connected with the discovery and practical application of improved methods of crop production; to continue the work of originating, by breeding and selection, in cooperation with the other divisions of the Department and the experiment stations, new varieties of oranges, lemons, and other tropical and subtropical fruits more resistant to cold and disease and of better quality; varieties of wheat and other cereals more resistant to rust and smut and better suited to the various sections of this country; varieties of cotton more resistant to disease and of longer and better staple, and varieties of pears and apples more resistant to blight and better adapted for export; to investigate the causes of decay in forest timber and timber used for construction purposes, and to devise means for preventing the decay of the same; to investigate the practical application in agriculture of the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by bacteria and other micro-organisms in soils and in the root tubercles of leguminous and other plants; to cultivate and distribute these nitrogen fixers and to determine the conditions most favorable to their development; to study and find methods for preventing the algal and other contaminations of water supplies; the employment of investigators, local and special agents, clerks, assistants, student or scientific aids, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments,; for telegraph and telephone service; for gas and electric current; purchase of chemicals and apparatus required in the field and laboratory; for the erection of necessary greenhouses, not to exceed two thousand dollars; necessary traveling expenses; for express and freight charges; the preparation of reports and illustrations; the rent and repairs of a building, not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum; all necessary office fixtures and supplies, and for other expenses connected with the practical work of the investigations, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum two thousand dollars shall be immediately available.
Pomological investigations. Pomological investigations: Investigating, collecting, and disseminating information relating to the fruit industry; the collection and distribution of seeds, shrubs, trees, and specimens; and for collecting and modeling fruits, vegetables, and other plants, and furnishing duplicate models to the experiment stations of the several States, as far as found practicable; the employment of investigators, local and special agents, clerks, assistants, student or scientific aids, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere; and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for gas and electric current; for telegraph and telephone services; for express and freight charges; for all necessary office fixtures and supplies and for traveling and other necessary expenses, to continue the investigations and experiments in the introduction of the culture of European table grapes and the study of the diseases that affect them, for the purpose of discovering remedies therefor, this work to be done in cooperation with the section of seed and plant introduction; to investigate in cooperation with the other divisions and bureaus of the Department and the experiment stations of the several States the market conditions affecting the fruit and vegetable trade in the United States and foreign countries, and the methods of harvesting, packing, storing, and shipping fruit and vegetables, and for experimental shipments of fruits and vegetables to foreign countries, for the purpose of increasing the exportation of American fruits and vegetables, and for all necessary expenses connected with the practical work of the same, and such fruits, vegetables, packages and packing material as are needed for these investigations and experimental shipments may be 283 bought in open market and disposed of at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he is authorized to apply the moneys received from the sales of such fruits and vegetables toward the continuation and repetition of these investigations and experimental shipments; to investigate, map, and report upon the commercial fruit districts of the United States, for the purpose of determining the relative adaptability of the several important fruits thereto, by a study of the conditions of soil and climate, and of the prevalence of plant diseases existing therein as related to commercial fruit production, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars, ten thousand dollars of which sum may Vine diseases. in the discretion of the Secretary be expended in cooperation with the experiment station of the State of California for determining the adaptability of various grape stocks to the different soil and climatic conditions of the Pacific coast and their resistance to disease.
Botanical investigations and experiments: Investigations relating Botanical investigations, etc. to medicinal, poisonous, fiber, and other economic plants, seeds, and weeds; the collection of plants, traveling expenses, and express and freight charges; for all necessary office fixtures; the purchase of paper and all other necessary supplies, materials, and apparatus; for rent and ordinary repairs of a building for office and laboratory purposes, not to exceed three thousand dollars; for gas and electric current; for telegraph and telephone service; for the employment of investigators, local and special agents, clerks, assistants, student or scientific aids and other labor in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere; and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the result of such experiments; subscriptions to and purchase of botanical publications for use in the division; and the preparation, illustration, and publication of reports; to investigate and publish reports upon the useful plants and plant cultures of the tropical territory of the United States, and to investigate, report upon, and introduce other plants promising to be valuable for the tropical territory of the United States, such plants and botanical and agricultural information when secured to be made available for the work of agricultural experiment stations and schools; to investigate the varieties of cereals grown in the United States or suitable for introduction, in order to standardize the naming of varieties as a basis for the experimental work of the State experiment stations, and as an assistance in commercial grading, and to investigate, in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry, the cause of deterioration of export grain, particularly in oceanic transit, and devise means of preventing losses from those causes, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
The Secretary of Tests of seeds for adulterations. Agriculture is hereby directed to obtain in the open market, samples of seeds of grass, clover, or alfalfa, test the same, and if any such seeds are found to be adulterated or misbranded, or any seeds of Canada blue grass (Boa compressa) are obtained under any other name than Canada blue grass or Poa compressa, to publish the results of the tests, together with the names of the persons by whom the seeds were offered for sale.
Grass and forage-plant investigations: To enable the Secretary Grass and forage-plant investigations. of Agriculture to conduct investigations of grasses, forage plants, and animal foods in cooperation with other divisions of the Department; to collect and purchase seeds, roots, and specimens of valuable economic grasses and forage plants for investigation; experimental cultivation and distribution, and for experiments and reports upon the best methods of extirpating Johnson and other noxious and destructive grasses; to purchase tools, all necessary office fixtures, materials, apparatus, and supplies; to pay freight, express charges, and traveling expenses; for telegraph and telephone service; for gas and electric currents; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, student or scientific aids, and other labor required in conducting experiments 284 in the city of Washington and elsewhere; rent and repairs of a building not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum; to prepare drawings and illustrations for circulars, reports, and bulletins; and the agricultural experiment stations are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in establishing and maintaining experimental grass stations, for determining the best methods of caring for and improving meadows and grazing lands, the use of different grasses and forage plants, and their adaptability to various soils and climates, the best native and foreign species for reclaiming overstocked ranges and pastures, for renovating worn-out lands, for binding drifting sands and washed lands, and for turfing lawns and pleasure grounds, and for solving the various forage problems presented in the several sections of our country, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Experimental gardens and grounds. Experimental gardens and grounds, Department of Agriculture: Cultivation and care of experimental gardens and grounds, including the keep of lawns, trees, roadways, and walks; management and maintenance of the conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses; employment of assistants, experts, foremen, gardeners, laborers, carpenters, painters, plumbers, and other mechanics, in the city of Washington or elsewhere; machinery, tools, wagons, carts, horses, harness, plows, lawn mowers, sprinklers, hose, watering cans, tubs, pots, and other implements required in cultivation; lumber, hardware, glass, paints, tin, stones, gravel, and other material required for repairs; fertilizers, insecticide apparatus, and chemicals; blacksmithing, horseshoeing, and repairs to implements and machinery; seeds, plants, and bulbs for propagating purposes; labels, potting and packing materials, feed for horses, fuel, freight and express charges, repairing roadways and walks, traveling and other necessary expenses, and for electric lighting, for telegraph and telephone services, and for all necessary office fixtures and supplies, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Removal, etc., of greenhouses. For the removal and reconstruction of the greenhouses on the Department grounds in order to accommodate the new buildings for the Department, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Arlington experimental farm. Arlington experimental farm: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue the necessary improvements to establish and maintain a general experimental farm and agricultural station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, including employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, and for all necessary fixtures, supplies, material, apparatus, and other expenses, in accordance with the Vol. 31, p. 135. provisions of the Act of Congress approved April eighteenth, nineteen Land set apart. hundred, entitled “An Act to set apart a portion of the Arlington estate for experimental agricultural purposes, and to place said portion under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors in office,” which Act shall be construed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors jurisdiction over so much of the Government land in Alexandria County, Virginia, known as the Arlington estate, as lies east of the public road leading from the Aqueduct Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia, otherwise called the Georgetown and Alexandria road, and between said road and the Potomac River, containing about four hundred acres, with the exception, however, of a strip of land as follows:
Commencing at the point where the Georgetown and Alexandria road enters the Arlington estate on the north side, thence along said road six hundred and twenty-five yards, thence in a line perpendicular to said road to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, thence along said canal to the north line of the reservation, twenty thousand dollars. Tea culture investigations. Tea-culture investigations: For all expenses necessary, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, to 285 enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report on the cost of making tea and the best method of cultivating and preparing the same for market, so as to demonstrate whether it is practicable to introduce its culture in the Southern States as a profitable industry, and for all necessary fixtures, supplies, apparatus, material, and other expenses, ten thousand dollars.
Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds: For the purchase, Seeds. Purchase, distribution, etc. propagation, testing, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants; for repairs of present seed building, not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required, in the city of Washington and elsewhere; all necessary office fixtures and supplies, fuel, transportation, paper, twine, gum, printing, postal cards, gas, and electric current; traveling expenses, and all necessary material and repairs for putting up and distributing the same, and to be distributed in localities adapted to their culture, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars, of which amount not less Allotment. than two hundred and two thousand dollars shall be allotted for Congressional distribution.
And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to expend the Seeds, etc., to be adapted to locality. said sum, as nearly as practicable, in the purchase, testing and distribution of such valuable seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, the best he can obtain at public or private sale, and such as shall be suitable for the respective localities to which the same are to be apportioned, and in which same are to be distributed as hereinafter stated, and such seeds so purchased shall include a variety of vegetable and flower seeds suitable for planting and culture in the various sections of the United States.
An equal proportion of two-thirds of all Congressional allotment. seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants shall, upon their request, after due notification by the Secretary of Agriculture that the allotment to their respective districts is ready for distribution, be supplied to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress for distribution among their constituents, or mailed by the Department upon the receipt of their addressed franks; such franks to be furnished by the Public Printer as is now done for document slips with the names of Senators, Members, and Delegates printed thereon, and the words “United States Department of Agriculture, Congressional Seed Distribution,” or such other phraseology as the Secretary may direct; and the person receiving such seeds shall be requested to inform the Department of the results of the experiments therewith: *Provided*, That all seeds, bulbs, plants, and cuttings herein allotted to *Provisos*.
Distribution of uncalled for seeds, etc. Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress for distribution remaining uncalled for on the first of April shall be distributed by the Secretary of Agriculture, giving preference to those persons whose names and addresses have been furnished by Senators and Representatives in Congress, and who have not before, during the same season, been supplied by the Department: *And provided also*, That the Secretary shall report, as provided in this Act, the place, quantity, and price of Report of purchases. seeds purchased, and the date of purchase; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from sending seeds to those who apply for the same.
And the amount herein appropriated shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose No diversion of appropriation. but for the purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, mulberry and other rare and valuable trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants: *Provided, however*, That upon each envelope or wrapper containing packages of seeds the contents thereof Indications on wrappers. shall be plainly indicated, and the Secretary shall not distribute to any Senator, Representative, or Delegate seeds entirely unfit for the climate Seeds to be adapted to locality. and locality he represents, but shall distribute the same so that each member may have seeds of equal value, as near as may be, and 286 Early delivery to southern section. the best adapted to the locality he represents: *Provided also*, That the seeds allotted to Senators and Representatives for distribution in the districts embraced within the twenty-fifth and thirty-fourth parallels of latitude shall be ready for delivery not later than the tenth day of Purchase of foreign seeds, etc., for experimental tests.
January: *Provided further*, That forty thousand dollars of the sum thus appropriated, or so much thereof as the Secretary of Agriculture shall direct, may be used to collect, purchase, test, propagate, and distribute rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries or from our possessions for experiments with reference to their introduction into and cultivation in this country; and the seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants thus collected, purchased, tested, and propagated shall not be included in general distribution, but shall be used for experimental tests to be carried on with the cooperation of the agricultural experiment stations.
Beet, etc., sugar production. Investigating production of domestic sugar: For all expenses, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, necessary to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to develop the domestic production of sugar-beet seed, to demonstrate the superiority of high-grade seed, and to demonstrate the best methods of increasing the tonnage of sugar beets, to continue inquiry and ascertain the progress made in the production of domestic sugar from beets and sorghum, including the area of available lands adapted thereto by irrigation or otherwise, and to investigate all other matters concerning the same, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Total for Bureau of Plant Industry, seven hundred and forty-four thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. Bureau of Forestry. BUREAU OF FORESTRY. Salaries. Bureau of Forestry, salaries: One forester, who shall be Chief of Bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant forester, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant forester, two thousand dollars; one assistant forester, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one field assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; one field assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; one field assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one field assistant, one thousand dollars; ten collaborators, at three hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars; one clerk class three, one thousand six hundred dollars; one photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one computer, one thousand dollars; three clerks class one, three thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, five thousand and forty dollars; in all, thirty-seven thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
General expenses. General expenses, Bureau of Forestry: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on forestry, forest reserves, forest fires, and lumbering; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions, including the erection of the necessary buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed five hundred dollars; to collect and distribute valuable economic forest-tree seeds and plants; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in practical forestry and in conducting experiments and investigations in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and for collating, digesting, reporting, illustrat-287ing, and printing the results of such experiments and investigations; for the purchase of all necessary supplies, apparatus, and office fixtures, Supplies, etc. for freight and express charges, and traveling and other necessary expenses, three hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars, of which sum Rent. not to exceed fifteen thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent.
Leaves of absence. And the employees of the Bureau of Forestry outside of the city of Washington may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, without additional expense to the Government, be granted leaves of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year. Total for Bureau of Forestry, four hundred and twenty-five thousand one hundred and forty dollars. BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY. Bureau of Chemistry. Bureau of Chemistry, salaries: One Chemist, who shall be Chief Salaries. of Bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk class two, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks class one, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
General expenses, Bureau of Chemistry: Chemical apparatus, General expenses. Apparatus, etc. chemicals, laboratory fixtures, and supplies, repairs to engine and apparatus; gas and electric current, purchase of all necessary office fixtures, supplies, and necessary expenses in conducting investigations in this Bureau, including necessary traveling and other expenses, telegraph and telephone services, for express and freight charges, labor and expert work in such investigations, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; to continue the collaboration with other bureaus and divisions of the Department desiring chemical investigations and to collaborate with other departments of the Government whose heads request the Secretary of Agriculture for such assistance, and for other miscellaneous work; for the employment of additional assistant chemists, when necessary, and for the rent of Rent. buildings occupied by the Bureau of Chemistry.
To investigate the Adulteration of drugs, etc. adulteration of foods, condiments, beverages, and drugs, when deemed by the Secretary of Agriculture advisable, and to publish the results of such investigations when thought advisable, and also the Cold storage. effect of cold storage upon the healthfulness of foods. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the character Investigation of food preservatives, etc. of food preservatives, coloring matters, and other substances added to foods, to determine their relation to digestion and to health, and to establish the principles which should guide their use; to enable the Secretary Foreign tests. of Agriculture to investigate the character of the chemical and physical tests which are applied to American food products in foreign countries, and to inspect before shipment, when desired by the shippers Inspection before shipment. or owners of these food products, American food products intended for countries where chemical and physical tests are required before said food products are allowed to be sold in the countries mentioned, and for all necessary expenses connected with such inspection and studies of methods of analysis in foreign countries; to enable the Secretary of Standards of purity.
Agriculture, in collaboration with the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, and such other experts as he may deem necessary, to establish standards of purity for food products and to determine what are regarded as adulterations therein, for the guidance of the officials of the various States and of the courts of justice. To investigate, in collaboration with the Bureau of Animal Industry, Investigation of dairy products, etc. the chemistry of dairy products and of adulterants used therein, and 288 of the adulterated products; to determine the composition of process renovated or adulterated and other treated butters, and other chemical studies relating to dairy products, and to make all analyses of samples required for the execution of the law regulating the manufacture of Wheat and other cereals. process renovated or adulterated butters.
To study, in collaboration with the Weather Bureau and agricultural experiment stations, the influence of environment upon the chemical composition of wheat and other cereals, with especial reference to the variation in the content of gluten, and the suitability of barley for brewing and other purposes. Sugar and starch producing plants. To investigate the chemical composition of sugar and starch producing plants in the United States and its possessions, and, in collaboration with the Weather Bureau and agricultural experiment stations, to study the effects of environment upon the chemical composition of sugar and starch producing plants, especially with reference to their content of available sugar and starch, for the purpose of investigating, Table sirup. determining, and reporting the proper treatment and process in order to secure uniform grade and quality of first-class table sirup.
Adulteration of foods, drugs, etc. To investigate the adulteration, false labeling, or false branding of foods, drugs, beverages, condiments, and ingredients of such articles, when deemed by the Secretary of Agriculture advisable; and the Secretary of Agriculture, whenever he has reason to believe that such articles are being imported from foreign countries which are dangerous to the health of the people of the United States, or which shall be falsely labeled or branded either as to their contents or as to the place of their manufacture or production, shall make a request upon the Secretary of the Treasury for samples from original packages of Inspection of imported packages. such articles for inspection and analysis, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to open such original packages and deliver specimens to the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose mentioned, giving notice to the owner or consignee of such articles Unwholesome goods not to be delivered. who may be present and have the right to introduce testimony; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall refuse delivery to the consignee of any such goods which the Secretary of Agriculture reports to him have been inspected and analyzed and found to be dangerous to health, or falsely labeled or branded, either as to their contents or as to the place of their manufacture or production or which are forbidden entry or to be sold, or are restricted in sale in the countries in which they are made or from which they are exported, employing such assistants, clerks, and other persons as the Secretary of Agriculture may consider necessary for the purpose named, one hundred and thirty-five thousand *Provisos*.
New boiler. dollars: *Provided*, That if found necessary, one thousand five hundred dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be used for the purchase and installment of a new boiler in the Bureau of Chemistry: Road materials. *Provided also*, That not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars of this sum may be used to investigate the chemical and physical character of Table sirup. road materials: *And provided further*, That fifteen thousand dollars thereof shall be used exclusively for the purpose of investigating, determining, and reporting the proper treatment and process in order to secure uniform grade and quality of first-class table sirup; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall report to Congress at its next session Amount immediately available. the result of said investigation: *And provided further*, That fifteen thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated shall be immediately available.
Total for Bureau of Chemistry, one hundred and forty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars. Bureau of Soils. BUREAU OF SOILS. Salaries. Bureau of Soils, salaries: One soil physicist, who shall be chief of bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars; one scientist, two thousand five hundred dollars; one scientist, two thousand dollars; one 289 chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two scientists, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; two scientists, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars; two scientists, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars; two scientists, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one scientist, one thousand dollars; one stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk class three, one thousand six hundred Clerks, etc. dollars; three clerks class two, four thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks class one, six thousand dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one charwoman, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty-four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
General expenses, Bureau of Soils: Investigation of the relation General expenses. of soils to climate and organic life; for the investigation of the texture Investigation of soils. and composition of soils in the field and laboratory; for the investigation of the cause and prevention of the rise of alkali in the soils of the irrigated districts; the investigation of the relation of soils to drainage and seepage waters, and of methods for the prevention of the accumulation of and injury from seepage waters in irrigated districts; for investigations of soils and for indicating upon maps or plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations; to map the tobacco Tobacco. soils of the United States; to investigate the soils and conditions of tobacco growth in Cuba, Sumatra, and other tobacco-competing countries; to investigate, in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, the methods of curing, with particular reference to fermentation; to originate, through selection and breeding, improved varieties for the principal tobacco districts of the United States, and to secure, as far as may be, a change in the methods of supplying tobacco to foreign countries; the location of the stations; rent of buildings, not to exceed Rent, etc. four thousand dollars per annum, for office and laboratory purposes; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other Special agents, etc labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; the preparation and printing of reports, drawings, and illustrations; for materials, tools, instruments, apparatus, gas and electric current, furniture, supplies for telegraph and telephone service, and for traveling expenses, freight and express charges, and other necessary expenses, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Total for Bureau of Soils, two hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Bureau of Entomology, salaries: One entomologist, who shall be Bureau of Entomology. Salaries. chief of bureau, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, and for additional compensation while the office is held by the present incumbent. five hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist or clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant entomologist or clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistant entomologists or clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
General expenses, Bureau of Entomology: Promotion of economic General expenses. Investigations. entomology; investigating the history and habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture; ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious, including an investigation into the ravages of insects affecting field 290 crops; investigations of the insects affecting small fruit, shade trees, and truck crops, forests and forest products and stored products; investigation of insects in relation to diseases of men and domestic animals and as animal parasites; miscellaneous insect investigations, including the introduction of beneficial insects, quarantine work, and the study of fungus and other diseases of insects; for the expenses of insect laboratory, collections, and experimental garden; investigations in apiculture and in silk culture; investigations of insecticides and insecticide machinery; purchase of chemicals, insecticide apparatus, and other materials, supplies, and instruments required in conducting such experiments and investigations; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; freight and express charges, and necessary traveling Rent. expenses; rent of building; for office fixtures and supplies, telegraph and telephone services; gas and electric current; preparing, illustrating, and publishing the results of the work of the Bureau, seventy thousand dollars.
Total for Bureau of Entomology, eighty-two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Division of Biologcal Survey. Salaries. Division of Biological Survey, salaries: One biologist, who shall be chief of division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant biologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistant biologists, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars; one assistant biologist, one thousand four hundred dollars; four assistant biologists, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class one, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
General expenses. Investigations. General expenses of biological investigations: For biological investigations, including the geographic distribution and migrations of animals, birds, and plants, and for the promotion of economic ornithology and mammalogy, for an investigation of the food habits of North American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in conducting experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such experiments; for freight and express charges; for office fixtures and supplies, gas and electric current, telegraph and telephone services; for preparation and publication of reports, and for illustrations, field work, and traveling and other Preventing transportation of illegally killed game.
Vol. 31, p. 187. expenses in the practical work of the Division, and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibiting the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes,” thirty-three thousand dollars. Care of elk. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to move or transport elk presented to the Government or owned by it, and to fence, maintain, feed, and care for them on forest reserves or other public lands, one thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available.
Total for Division of Biological Survey, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Division of Accounts and Disbursements. Salaries. Division of Accounts and Disbursements: Chief of division and disbursing clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; one cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks class three, four thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks class two, eight thousand four 291 hundred dollars; three clerks class one (one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter), three thousand six hundred dollars; one custodian of records and files, one thousand dollars; total for Division of Accounts and Disbursements, twenty-four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Division of Publications, salaries: One editor, who shall be chief Division of Publications. Salaries. of division, three thousand dollars; one associate editor, two thousand dollars; one assistant editor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistant editors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars; two editorial clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks class one, four thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars; one assistant in charge of document section, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one second assistant in document section, one thousand two hundred dollars; one foreman document section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one chief folder, one thousand dollars; one folder, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, thirty thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
General expenses, Division of Publications: For the preparation, General expenses Printing, etc., of documents. printing, illustration, publication, indexing, and distribution of documents, bulletins, and reports, two hundred and ten thousand dollars, of which sum one hundred and five thousand dollars shall be available for the preparation, printing, and distribution of farmers’ Farmers’ bulletins. bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of Congressional allotment. which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as such Senators, Representatives, or Delegates in Congress shall direct: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall notify Senators, Representatives, *Provisos*.
Notification of contents. and Delegates in Congress of the title and character of each such bulletin, with the total number to which each Senator. Representative, and Delegate maybe entitled for distribution; and on the face of the envelope inclosing said bulletins shall be printed the title of each bulletin contained therein: *Provided further*, That all such bulletins Disposal of uncalled for bulletins. included in the quotas of Senators, Representatives, or Delegates not called for on or before the thirty-first day of May in each fiscal year shall revert to the Secretary of Agriculture, and be available to him, either for miscellaneous distribution or in making up Congressional quotas for the next fiscal year; fifteen thousand dollars for additional Additional employees. assistants, editorial, proof reading, indexing, and other necessary help in the city of Washington or elsewhere; for the pay of artists, draftsmen, and engravers; the purchase of manuscript for publication; for Tools, instruments, etc. tools, instruments, and artists’ materials; for drawings, engravings, photographs, paintings, lithographs, and other illustration work; for electrotypes, and for traveling expenses when necessary; ninety thousand dollars for labor and material required in the distribution of documents, including wagons, harness, and horses, and maintenance of same, and for repairs; for rent of buildings for the storage and distribution Rent. of publications, for which purpose the sum of not to exceed one thousand dollars is made immediately available, and the pay of watchmen, Watchmen, etc charwomen, all necessary office fixtures and supplies; for gas and electric current, telegraph and telephone services, and for such other expenses as may be necessary; in all, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Total for Division of Publications, two hundred and forty thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Bureau of Statistics, salaries: One statistician, who shall be Bureau of Statistics. Salaries. Chief of Bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant statistician, who shall be assistant chief of Bureau, two thousand two 292 hundred dollars; one Chief of Division of Foreign Markets, two thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks class four, seven thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks class three, eight thousand dollars; six clerks class two, eight thousand four hundred dollars; nine clerks class one, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; ten clerks at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; four clerks at eight hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
General expenses. Collecting statistics. General expenses, Bureau of Statistics: Collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, compiling, writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual, and special reports; special investigations and compilations; subscription to, and purchase of, statistical and newspaper publications containing data for permanent comparative records; maps and charts; stationery, office supplies, blanks, blank books, circulars, paper, envelopes, postal cards, postage stamps, office fixtures, telegraph and telephone services, freight and express charges, including employment of labor in the city of Washington *Proviso*.
Monthly crop reports. and elsewhere, and necessary traveling expenses: *Provided*, That the monthly crop reports issued on the third and tenth days of each month shall embrace statements of the conditions of the crops by States, in the United States, with such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for illustrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to, and officially approved by the Secretary of Agriculture before being issued or published, one hundred and Salaries in Washington. thirty-two thousand dollars, of which not more than fifty thousand dollars shall be expended for salaries in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.
Extension of foreign markets. Investigations concerning the feasibility of extending the demands of foreign markets for the agricultural products of the United States, and to secure as far as may be a change in the methods of supplying farm products to foreign countries; employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in making investigations in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such investigations; traveling expenses, and freight and express charges; telephone and telegraph services; and all necessary office fixtures and supplies, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Total for Bureau of Statistics, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Library. Salaries. Library, salaries: One librarian, two thousand dollars; one assistant librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk (who shall be a translator), one thousand two hundred dollars; one cataloguer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two cataloguers, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, ten thousand two hundred dollars.
General expenses. General expenses for Department library: Purchase of technical books of reference, technical papers, and technical periodicals necessary for the work of the Department, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for binding periodicals, and for the employment of additional assistance in the city of Washington and elsewhere, when necessary; for traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, shelving, library cards, and other material, ten thousand dollars: *Proviso*.
Subscriptions to publications. [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). *Provided*, That section three thousand six hundred and forty-eight of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to the subscriptions for publications for the Department of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay in advance for any publications for the Card index. use of this Department. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby 293 authorized to furnish to such institutions or individuals as may care to buy them copies of the card index of the publications of the Department and of other agricultural literature prepared by the library, and charge for the same a price covering the additional expense involved in the preparation of these copies, and he is hereby authorized to apply the moneys received toward the expense of the preparation of the index.
Total for library, Department of Agriculture, twenty thousand two hundred dollars. Museum: One care taker, one thousand dollars; for labor in cleaning Museum. and caring for building, one charwoman, at five hundred and forty dollars; three charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture: Purchase of Contingent expenses. stationery, blank books, twine, paper, gum, dry goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, fuel, water and gas pipes, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, matting; for lights, freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, washing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating apparatus; for the employment of one carpenter, at one thousand dollars, and for the employment of one painter, at nine hundred dollars; the purchase, subsistence, and care of horses, for official purposes only; the purchase and repair of harness; the purchase and repair of vehicles, for official purposes only; payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agriculture’s proportionate share of the dispatch agent in New York, not to exceed four hundred dollars; actual traveling expenses while on business of the Department; and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department, including not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for postage, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS. Miscellaneous. Agricultural Experiment Stations: To carry into effect the provisions Agricultural experiment stations. Vol. 24, p. 440. of an Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and Vol. 12, p. 503. sixty-two, and of the Acts supplementary thereto,” and to enforce the execution thereof, eight hundred and ten thousand dollars; forty Bulletins. thousand dollars of which sum shall be payable upon the order of the Secretary of Agriculture, to enable him to carry out the provisions of section three of said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven;
Vol. 24, p. 441. and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required by section three of said Act of Statements. March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; shall ascertain whether the expenditures under the appropriation hereby made are in accordance with the provisions of said Act, and shall make report thereon to Congress. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ Expenditures. such assistants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and to incur such other expenses for office fixtures and supplies, stationery, traveling, freight and express charges, illustration of the Experiment Station Record, bulletins, and reports, as he may find essential in carrying out the objects of the above Acts, and the sums apportioned to the several Payment to States.
States shall be paid quarterly in advance; and the Secretary of Agriculture Card index. is hereby authorized to furnish to such institutions or individ-294uals as may care to buy them copies of the card index of agricultural literature prepared by the Office of Experiment Stations, and charge for the same a price covering the additional expense involved in the preparation of these copies, and he is hereby authorized to apply the moneys received toward the expense of the preparation of the index, Agricultural stations. and this fund shall be available until used; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to expend forty-five thousand dollars of which sum to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. in the Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, including the erection of buildings, the printing (in Hawaii and Porto Rico), illustration, *Provisos*.
Limit, etc. and distribution of reports and bulletins: *Provided*, That not more than fifteen thousand dollars shall be expended for the maintenance of such stations in any one of said Territories; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell such products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and to apply the moneys received from the sale of such products to the maintenance of said stations, and this fund shall be available until used; in all, eight hundred and ten thousand Report on farmers’ institutes. dollars: *Provided*, That five thousand dollars of this sum shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the organization and progress of farmers’ institutes in the several States and Territories, and upon similar organizations in foreign countries, with special suggestions of plans and methods for making such organizations more effective for the dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice.
Total for agricultural experiment stations, eight hundred and ten thousand dollars. Nutrition investigations. Nutrition investigations: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the nutritive value of the various articles and commodities used for human food, with special suggestions of full, wholesome, and edible rations less wasteful and more economical than those in common use, including special investigations on the nutritive value and economy of the diet in public institutions; and the agricultural experiment stations are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out said investigations in such manner and to such extent as may be warranted by a due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States and Territories, and as may be mutually agreed upon; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to require said stations to report to him the results of any such investigations which they may carry out, whether in cooperation with said Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, twenty thousand dollars.
Irrigation and drainage. Irrigation and drainage investigations: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the laws of the States and Territories as affecting irrigation and the rights of appropriators and of riparian proprietors and institutions relating to irrigation and upon the use of irrigation waters, at home and abroad; with especial suggestions of the best methods for the utilization of irrigation waters in agriculture, and upon plans for the removal of seepage and surplus waters by drainage, and upon the use of different kinds of power and appliances for irrigation and drainage, and for the preparation, printing, Reports. and illustration of reports and bulletins on irrigation and drainage, including employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere; and the agricultural experiment stations are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out said investigations in such manner and to such extent as may be warranted by a due regard to the varying conditions and needs and laws of the respective States and Territories as may be mutually 295 agreed upon, and all necessary expenses, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Public road inquiries: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to Public roads. make inquiries in regard to the systems of road management throughout the United States; to make investigations in regard to the best methods of road making, and the best kinds of road-making materials in the several States; to conduct experiments; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such investigations and experiments; for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reports; for necessary office fixtures and supplies, apparatus, and materials; telegraph and telephone service, traveling, and other necessary expenses, and to enable him to assist the agricultural colleges and experiment stations in disseminating information on this subject, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Total for Department of Agriculture, five million nine hundred and two thousand and forty dollars. Approved, April 23, 1904.