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CHAP. 179.— AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. March 4, 1917.[[H. R. 19359](/us/bill/64/hr/19359).][[Public, No. 390](/us/pl/64/390).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Agricultural Department appropriations.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 eighteen, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. office of the secretary. Pay of Secretary, Assistant, Solicitor, etc. Salaries, Office of the Secretary of Agriculture: Secretary of Agriculture, $12,000; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, $5,000; solicitor, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000, and $500 additional as custodian of buildings; private secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,100; stenographer and executive clerk to the Secretary of Agriculture, $2,250; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, $2,250; one appointment clerk, $2,000; one assistant in charge of information, $3,000; one 1135officer in charge of supplies, $2,000; one assistant, $2,000; one inspector, Inspectors, law clerks, etc.$2,750; one inspector, $2,250; one law clerk, $3,250; two law clerks, at $3,000 each; one law clerk, $2,750; four law clerks, at $2,500 each; eight law clerks, at $2,250 each; one law clerk, $2,200; five law clerks, at $2,000 each; three law clerks, at $1,800 each; four law clerks, at $1,600 each; one expert on exhibits, $3,000; one telegraph and telephone operator, $1,600; one assistant chief clerk and captain Clerks, messengers, etc.of the watch, $1,800; four clerks, class four; twelve clerks, class three; twenty clerks, class two; twenty-two clerks, class one; one auditor, $2,000; one accountant and bookkeeper, $2,000; one clerk, $1,440; one clerk, $1,020; seven clerks, at $1,000 each; twelve clerks, at $900 each; one clerk, $840; one clerk, $720; fifteen messengers or laborers, at $840 each; twelve assistant messengers, laborers, or messenger boys, Mechanics, etcat $720 each; one messenger or laborer, $660; one mechanical superintendent, $2,500; one engineer, $1,400; one electrical engineer and draftsman, $1,200; one assistant engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; eight firemen; at S720 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; three elevator conductors, at $600 each; one superintendent of shops, $1,400; one cabinet shop foreman, $1,200; four cabinetmakers or carpenters, at $1,200 each; three cabinetmakers or carpenters, at $1,100 each; nine cabinetmakers or carpenters, at $1,020 each; three cabinetmakers or carpenters, at $900 each; one electrician, $1,100; one electrical wireman, $1,100; one electrical wireman, $1,000; one electrical wireman, $900; three electrician's helpers, at $720 each; one painter, $1,020; one painter, $1,000; five painters, at $900 each; five plumbers or steam fitters, at $1,020 each; one plumber's helper, $840; two plumber’s helpers, at $720 each; one blacksmith $900; one elevator machinist, $900; one tinner's helper, $720; one lieutenant of the watch, $1,000; two lieutenants Watchmen, laborers, etc.of the watch, at $960 each; fifty watchmen, at $720 each; four mechanics, at $1,200 each; one skilled laborer, $1,000; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; one skilled laborer, $720; one janitor, $900; twenty-two assistant messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $600 each; one carriage driver, $600; twenty-one laborers or messenger boys, at $480 each; one messenger or messenger boy, $360; one charwoman, $540; three charwomen, at $480 each; fifteen charwomen, at $240 each; for extra labor and emergency employments, $12,000; in all, $412,010.
Salaries, Office of Farm Management: One chief of office, Farm Management Office. Salaries.$4,000; one assistant to the chief, $2,520; one executive assistant, $2,250; one clerk, class 4; two clerks, class 3; three clerks, class 2; six clerks, class 1; two clerks, at $1,100 each; one clerk, $1,080; one clerk or photographer, $1,020; nine clerks, at $1,000 each; twelve clerks, at $900 each; four clerks or map tracers, at $840 each; three clerks or map tracers, at $720 each; one Ian tern-slide colorist, $720; one messenger or laborer, $720; one messenger, messenger boy, or laborer, $660; three messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $480 each; one laborer, $360; four charwomen, at $240 each; one library assistant, $1,440; one photographer, $1,400; one cartographer, $1,500; one draftsman, $1,440; one draftsman, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $900 each; in all, $68,430.
General expenses, Office of Farm Management: For the employment General expenses.of persons in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, traveling expenses, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and all other expenses necessary in carrying out the work herein authorized, as follows: To investigate and encourage the adoption of improved methods Farm management and practice.of farm management and farm practice, $237,380. Total for Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $717,820. 1136 weather bureau.
Weather Bureau. Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Salaries, Weather Bureau: One chief of bureau, $5,000; one assistant chief of bureau, $3,250; one chief clerk, $2,500; one chief of division of stations and accounts, $2,750; one chief of printing division, $2,500; three chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; eight clerks, class four; eleven clerks, class three; twenty-three clerks, class two; thirty-one clerks, class one; twenty-two clerks, at $1,000 each; ten Printers, mechanics, etc.clerks, at $900 each; one foreman of printing, $1,600; one lithographer, $1,500; three lithographers, at $1,200 each; one pressman, $1,200; one printer or compositor, $1,440; five printers or compositors, at $1,350 each; fourteen printers or compositors, at $1,300 each; one printer or compositor, $1,200; six printers or compositors, at $1,080 each; five printers or compositors, at $1,000 each; four folders and feeder’s, at $720 each; one chief instrument maker, $1,440; three instrument makers, at $1,300 each; three skilled mechanics, at $1,200 each; five skilled mechanics, at $1,000 each; one skilled mechanic, $840; one skilled mechanic, $720; six skilled artisans, at $84 0 each; one engineer, $1,300; one fireman and steam fitter, $840; four firemen, at $720 each; one captain of the watch, $1,000; one electrician, $1,200; one gardener, $1,000; four repairmen, at $840 each; six repairmen, at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each;
Messengers, etc.eighteen messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $720 each; six messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $660 each; thirty-one messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $600 each; sixty-four messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $480 each; five messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $450 each; four messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $360 each; thirty-seven messenger boys, at $360 each; one charwoman, $360; three charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $327,900.
General expenses. Classification of objects. General expenses, Weather Bureau: For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska, the Vol. 26, p. 653.provisions of an Act approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, for the employment of professors of meteorology, district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers, apprentices, operators, skilled mechanics, instrument makers, foremen, assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, folders and feeders, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, special observers, displaymen, and other necessary employees; for fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, stationery, ice, dry goods, twine, mats, oil, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, and washing towels; for advertising; for purchase, subsistence and care of horses and vehicles, the purchase and repair of harness, for official purposes only ; for instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers and repairs thereto; for rent of offices; for repairs and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets abutting Weather Bureau grounds; and the erection of temporary buildings for living quarters of observers; for official traveling expenses; for telephone rentals and for telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreements with the companies performing the. service; for the maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and cable lines; and for every other expenditure required for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations and for the issuing of weather forecasts and warnings of storms, cold waves, frosts, and heavy snows, the gauging and 1137measuring of the flow of rivers and the issuing of river forecasts and warnings; for observations and reports relating to crops and for Cooperation with other bureaus, etc.other necessary observations and reports, including cooperation with other bureaus of the Government and societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological information, as follows:
For necessary expenses in the city of Washington incident to collecting Expenses in Washington.and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerology, 5109,250; For the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington Printing office.for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications, including the pay of additional employees, when necessary, $12,800: *Provided,* That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau, that in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, can be done *Proviso.* Limitation on work.at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said bureau;
For necessary expenses outside of the city of Washington incident Expenses outside of Washington.to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerology, $1,301,190, including not to exceed 5662,500 for salaries, $130,040 for special observations and reports, and $294,750 for telegraphing and telephoning; For official traveling expenses, $25,500; Traveling expenses.
For the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of a Weather Greenville, S. C., station.Bureau station at Greenville, South Carolina, $6,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; In all, for general expenses, $1,455,240. Total for Weather Bureau, $1,783,140. bureau of animal industry. Animal Industry Bureau. Salaries, Bureau of Animal Industry: One chief of bureau, Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.$5,000; one chief clerk, $2,500; one editor and compiler, $2,250; one executive assistant, $2,500; two executive clerks, at $2,000 each; six clerks, class four; one clerk, $1,680; fourteen clerks, class three; one assistant in live-stock investigations, $1,600; two clerks, at $1,500 each; twenty-four clerks, class two; two clerks, at $1,380 each; three clerks, at $1,320 each; one clerk, $1,300; one clerk, $1,260; fifty-one clerks, class one; one clerk, $1,100; one clerk, $1,080; fifty-nine clerks, at $1,000 each; two clerks, at $960 each; one hundred and five clerks, at $900 each; one architect, $2,000; one illustrator, $1,400; one laboratory aid, $1,200; one laboratory helper, $1,200; two laboratory helpers, at $1,020 each; one laboratory helper, $1,000; one laboratory helper, $960; two laboratory helpers, at $840 each; one laboratory helper, $720; two laboratory helpers, at $600 each; one laboratory helper, $480; one instrument maker, $1,200; one carpenter, $1,140; two carpenters, at $1,000 each; two messengers and custodians, at $1,200 each; one quarantine assistant, $900; one skilled laborer, $1,000; nine skilled laborers, at $900 each; one painter, $900; one laborer, $900; nine messengers, skilled laborers, or laborers, at $840 each; three laborers, at $780 each; nineteen messengers, skilled laborers, or laborers, at $720 each; four laborers, at $660 each; twenty-two laborers, at $600 each; twenty-six laborers, at $540 each; thirty laborers, at $480 each; two laborers, at $300 each; one laborer, $240; one messenger boy, $660; three messenger boys, at $600 each; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; eight messenger boys, at $360 each; one watchman, $720; one charwoman, $600; one charwoman, $540; thirteen charwomen, at $480 each; five charwomen, at $360 each; two charwomen, at $300 each; seven charwomen, at $240 each: in all, $440,370. 1138 General expenses.
Vol. 23, p. 31. General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and the Vol. 26, p. 833.provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, providing for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, Vol. 26, p. 414.and for other purposes; the Act approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing for the importation of animals into Vol. 32, p. 193.the United States, and for other purposes; and the provisions of the Act of May ninth, nineteen hundred and two, extending the inspection of meats to process butter, and providing for the inspection of factories, marking of packages, and so forth; and 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, Vol. 33, p. 1264.
Cattle quarantine.and for other purposes; and also the provisions of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and Vol. 34, p. 607. Twenty-eight hour law.regulate the movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled: Vol. 37, p. 832. Animal viruses, etc.“An Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation;” and for carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, regulating the preparation, sale, barter, exchange, or shipment of any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous products manufactured in the United States, and the importation of such products intended for Collecting information, etc.use in the treatment of domestic animals; and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information concerning live stock, dairy, and other animal products; to prepare and disseminate Employees.reports on animal industry; to employ and pay from the appropriation herein made as many persons in the city of Washington Tuberculin, serums, etc.or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate Purchase, destruction, etc., of diseased animals.the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem best; to purchase and destroy diseased or exposed animals or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment essential to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or other diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows:
Inspection and quarantine work. For inspection and quarantine work, including all necessary expenses for the eradication of scabies in sheep and cattle, the inspection of southern cattle, the supervision of the transportation of live stock and the inspection of vessels, the execution of the twenty-eight-hour law, the inspection and quarantine of imported animals, including the establishment and maintenance of quarantine stations and repairs, alterations, improvements, or additions to buildings thereon; the inspection work relative to the existence of contagious diseases, and the tuberculin and mallein testing of animals, $628,280;
Southern cattle ticks. Demonstration work, eradication, etc. For all necessary expenses for the eradication of southern cattle ticks, $631,560, of which sum $50,000 may be used for live stock and dairy demonstration work, in cooperation with the States Relations Service, in areas freed of ticks, and of this amount no part shall be used in the purchase of animals: *Provided, however,* That no part of *Proviso.* Limitation on purchase of materials, etc.this appropriation shall be used in the purchase of materials for or in the construction of dipping vats upon land not owned solely by the United States, except at fairs or expositions where the Department of Agriculture makes exhibits or demonstrations; nor shall any part 1139of this appropriation be used in the purchase of materials or mixtures for use in dipping vats except in experimental or demonstration work earned on by the officials or agents of the Bureau of Animal Industry;
For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in Dairy industry.dairy industry, cooperative investigations of the dairy industry in the various States, inspection of renovated-butter factories and markets, $378,930; For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in Animal husbandry. Feeding, breeding, etc., experiments.animal husbandry; for experiments in animal feeding and breeding, including cooperation with the State agricultural experiment stations, including repairs and additions to and erection of buildings absolutely necessary to carry on the experiments, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and all other necessary expenses, $277,580: *Provided,* That of the sum thus appropriated $22,840 may be used *Provisos.* Horses for military purposes.for experiments in the breeding and maintenance of horses for military purposes, and $15,000 for the purchase of lands in the vicinity of the Morgan Horse Farm near Middlebury, Vermont: *Provided further,* Morgan Horse Farm.
Poultry. Sheep experiment station, Idaho.That of the sum thus appropriated $45,380 may be used for experiments in poultry feeding and breeding: *Provided further, * That of the sum thus appropriated $12,280 may be used for the equipment of the United States sheep experiment station in Fremont County, Idaho, including repairs and additions to and the erection of necessary buildings to furnish facilities for the investigation of problems pertaining to the sheep and wool industry on the farms and ranges of the Western States;
For all necessary expenses for scientific investigations in diseases of Animal diseases.animals, including the maintenance and improvement of the bureau experiment station at Bethesda, Maryland, and the necessary alterations of buildings thereon, and the necessary expenses for investigations of tuberculin, scrums, antitoxins, and analogous products, $134,600: *Provided,* That of said sum $50,000 may be used for *Proviso.* Contagious abortion of animals.researches concerning the cause, modes of spread, and methods of treatment and prevention of the disease of contagious abortion of animals;
For construction of buildings at bureau experiment station Experiment station and farm buildings.at Bethesda Maryland, and bureau experiment farm at Beltsville, Maryland, $23,600; For investigating the disease of hog cholera, and for its control or Hog cholera. Investigating, demonstrations, etc.eradication by such means as may be necessary, including demonstrations, the formation of organizations, and other methods, either independently or in cooperation with farmers, associations, State or county authorities, $413,100: *Provided,* That of said sum $172,240 *Provisos.* Regulating trade in viruses, etc.Vol. 37, p. 832.shall be available for expenditures in carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, regulating the preparation, sale, barter, exchange, or shipment of any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product manufactured in the United States and the importation of such products intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals: *And provided further,* That of Pathological researches.said sum $32,060 shall be available for researches concerning the cause, modes of spread, and methods of treatment and prevention of this disease;
For all necessary expenses for the investigation, treatment, and Dourine eradication, etc.eradication of dourine, $99,000, of which amount $50,000 shall be immediately available; For general administrative work, including traveling expenses Administrative work.and salaries of employees engaged in such work, rent outside of the District of Columbia, office fixtures and supplies, express, freight, telegraph, telephone, and other necessary expenses, $26,686; In all, for general expenses, $2,613,336. 1140 Meat inspection.
Additional expenses. Vol. 34, p. 674. Meat Inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry: For additional expenses in carrying out the provisions of the meat-inspection Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and seventy-four), there is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the sum of $501,620. Total for Bureau of Animal Industry, $3,555,326. bureau of plant industry. Plant Industry Bureau.
Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Salaries, Bureau of Plant Industry: One physiologist and pathologist, who shall be chief of bureau, $5,000; one chief clerk, $3,000; one executive assistant in seed distribution, $2,500; one officer in charge of publications, $2,250; one landscape gardener, $1,800: one officer in charge of records, $2,250; one superintendent of seed weighing and mailing, $2,000; two executive clerks, at $1,980 each: one seed inspector, $1,000; one seed warehouseman, $1,400; one seed warehouseman, $1,000; one seed warehouseman, $840; six clerks, class four; eleven clerks, class three; three clerks, at $1,500 each; twenty-one clerics, class two; forty-six clerks, class one; one clerk or draftsman, $1,200; one clerk, $1,080; seven clerks, at $1,020 each; twenty-one clerks, at $1,000 each; forty-four clerks, at $900 each; one clerk or draftsman, $900; twenty clerks, at $840 each; one clerk, $720; one laborer, $780; forty-one messengers or laborers, at $720 each; eleven messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $660 each; twenty-eight messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $600 each; one artist, $1,620; one clerk or artist, $1,400; two clerks or artists, at $1,200 each; one photographer, $1,200; one photographer, $840;
Laboratory aids, etc.two laboratory aids, at $1,440 each; one laboratory aid, $1,380; four laboratory aids or clerks, at $1,200 each; one laboratory aid clerk, or skilled laborer, $1,080; two laboratory aids, clerks, or skilled laborers, at $1,020 each; three laboratory aids, at $960 each; one laboratory aid, $900; four laboratory aids, at $840 each; seven laboratory aids, at $720 each; one laboratory apprentice, $720: one map Gardeners, etc.tracer, $600; two gardeners, at $1,440 each; four gardeners, at $1,200 each; eight gardeners, at $1,100 each; fifteen gardeners, at $900 each; nineteen gardeners, at $780 each; one skilled laborer, $960; two skilled laborers, at $900 each; three skilled laborers, at $840 each; one assistant in technology, $1,400; one assistant in technology, $1,380; one mechanician, $1,080; one mechanical assistant, $1,200; one blacksmith, $900; one carpenter, $900; one painter, $900; one teamster, $840; one teamster, $600; twenty-one laborers, at $540 each; twenty-nine laborers, messengers, or messenger boys, at $480 each; three laborers or charwomen, at $480 each; three laborers or messenger boys, at $420 each; twenty charwomen, at $240 each; fifteen messenger boys, at $360 each; five messenger boys, at $300 each; in all, $419,380.
General expenses. Investigations, etc. General expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry: For all necessary expenses in the investigation of fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, grasses, forage, drug, medicinal, poisonous, fiber, and other plants and plant industries, in cooperation with other branches of the department, the State experiment stations, and practical farmers, and for the erection of necessary farm buildings: *Proviso.* Limit for buildings.*Provided,* That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed $1,500; for field and station expenses, including fences, drains, and other farm improvements; for repairs in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; for rent outside of the District of Columbia; and for the Investigators, etc.employment of all investigators, local and special agents, agricultural explorers, experts, clerks, illustrators, assistants, and all labor and other necessary expenses in the city of Washington and elsewhere required for the investigations, experiments, and demonstrations herein authorized, as follows: 1141 For investigations of plant diseases and pathological Plant diseases, etc.collections, including the maintenance of a plant-disease survey, $62,500;
For the investigation of diseases of orchard and Orchard, etc., fruits; pecans.other fruits, $76,415: *Provided,* That $8,000 of said amount shall be available for the investigation of diseases of the pecan; For conducting such investigations of the nature and means of Citrus canker.communication of the disease of citrus trees, known as citrus canker, and by applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, including the payment of such expenses and the employment of such persons and means, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and Cooperative expenditures.cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations of growers, or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $430,000, of which $180,000 shall be immediately available, and, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, of the remaining $250,000 no expenditures shall be made Local contributions required.until a sum or sums at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by State, county, or local authorities, or by individuals or organisations for the accomplishment of such purposes: *Provided,* That no part of the *Proviso.* No pay for trees, etc., destroyed.money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed;
For the investigation or diseases of forest and ornamental trees Trees and shrubs. Parasitic fungi.and shrubs, including a study of the nature and habits of the parasitic fungi causing the chestnut-tree bark disease, the white-pine blister rust, and other epidemic tree diseases, for the purpose of discovering new methods of control and applying methods of eradication or control already discovered, $85,915; For applying such methods of eradication or control of the white-pine White-pine blister rot.
Cooperative methods of eradicating, etc.blister rust as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, including the payment of such expenses and the employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington anti elsewhere, in cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $300,000, of which $150,000 shall be Contribution from States, etc., required.immediately available, and in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture of the remaining $150,000 no expenditures shall be made until a sum or sums at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by State, county, or local authorities or by individuals or organizations for the accomplishment of such purpose: *Provided,* That no part of the money herein *Proviso.* No payment for trees, etc., destroyed.appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed;
For the investigation of diseases of cotton, potatoes, truck crops, Cotton, potatoes, truck crops, etc.forage crops, drug and related plants, $87,800, of which sum $5,000 shall be immediately available; For investigating the physiology of crop plants and for testing Crop plant physiology.and breeding varieties thereof, $49,060; For soil-bacteriology and plant-nutrition investigations, including Soil bacteriology and plant nutrition.the testing of samples, procured in the open market, of cultures for inoculating legumes, and if any such samples are found to be impure, nenviable, or misbranded, the results of the tests may be published, Publishing tests, etc.together with the names of the manufacturers and of the persons by whom the cultures were offered for sale, $39,300;
For soil-fertility investigations into organic causes of infertility Soil fertility.and remedial measures, maintenance of productivity, properties and composition of soil humus, and the transformation and formation of soil humus by soil organisms, $36,260; For acclimatization and adaptation investigations of cotton, corn, Acclimatizing tropical plants, etc.and other crops introduced from tropical regions, and for the improvement of cotton and other fiber plants by cultural methods, 1142 Hard fibers.breeding, and selection, and for determining the feasibility of increasing the production of hard fibers outside of the continental United *Proviso.* Cotton seed interbreeding.States, $82,510: *Provided,* That not less than $7,500 of this sum shall be used for experiments in cotton seed interbreeding;
Drug plants, etc. For the investigation, testing, and improvement of plants yielding drugs, spices, poisons, oils, and related products and by-products, and for general physiological and fermentation investigations, $58,820; Crop technology; nematodes. For crop technological investigations, including the study of plant infesting nematodes, $24,940; Biophysical work. For biophysical investigations in connection with the various lines of work herein authorized, $32,500; Commercial seeds, grasses, etc.
Testing samples, etc. For studying and testing commercial seeds, including the testing of samples of seeds of grasses, clover, or alfalfa, and lawn-grass seeds secured in the open market, and where such samples are found to be adulterated or misbranded the results of the tests shall be published, together with the names of the persons by whom the seeds were Preventing admission of adulterated seed grain. Vol. 37, p. 506.offered for sale, and for carrying out the provisions of the Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to regulate foreign commerce by prohibiting the admission into the United States of certain adulterated grain and seeds unfit for seeding purposes” (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page five hundred and six), $34,700;
Cereals. For the investigation and improvement of cereals and methods of cereal production, and the study of cereal diseases, and for the investigation of the cultivation and breeding of flax for seed purposes, including a study of flax diseases, and for the investigation and improvement of broom corn and methods of broom-corn production, *Provisos.* Corn improvement, etc.$186,505; *Provided,* That $40,000 shall be set aside for the study of corn improvement and methods of corn production: *Provided, also,* Rust diseases.That $20,000 shall be set aside for the investigation of the diseases of wheat, oats, and barley known as black rust and stripe rust;
Tobacco production, etc. For the investigation and improvement of tobacco and the methods of tobacco production and handling, $32,000; Paper making plants. For testing and breeding fibrous plants, including the testing of flax straw and hemp, in cooperation with the North Dakota Agricultural College, which may be used for paper making, $16,760; Arid land crops. For the breeding and physiological study of al kali-resistant and drought-resistant crops, $24,280; Sugar plant investigations.
For sugar-plant investigations, including studies of diseases and the improvement of the beet and beet seed, and methods of culture, and to determine for each sugar-beet area the agricultural operations *Provisos.* Improving American sugar-beet seed.required to insure a stable agriculture, $56,015: *Provided,* That not less than $10,000 of this sum shall be used for the development and improvement of American strains of sugar-beet seed and for the establishment of a permanent sugar-beet seed industry in the United Cane and sorghum products.States: *Provided further,* That of this sum $12,500 may be used for investigations in connection with the production of cane and sorghum sirup, including the breeding, culturé, and diseases of cane and sorghum, and the utilization of cane and sorghum by-products;
Grazing lands, etc. For investigations in economic and systematic botany and the improvement and utilization of wild plants and grazing lands, $23,100; Dry land, etc., crop methods. For the investigation and improvement of methods of crop production under subhumid, semiarid, or dry-land conditions, $160,006: *Provisos.* Buildings.*Ante,* p. 1140.Free tree distribution restrictions.*Provided,* That the limitation in this Act as to the cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be used in the free distribution, or propagation for free distribution, of cuttings, seedlings, or trees of willow, box elder, ash, caragana, or other common varieties of fruit, ornamental, or shelter-bolt trees in the Northern Great Plains area, except for experimental or demonstration purposes in the States of 1143North and South Dakota west of the one hundredth meridian, and in Montana and Wyoming east of the five-thousand-foot contour line;
For investigations in connection with western irrigation agriculture, Utilizing reclaimed lands, etc.the utilization of lands reclaimed under the reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, 975,380; For the investigation and improvement of fruits, and the methods Fruit growing, shipments, etc.of fruit growing, harvesting, packing, storing, handling, and shipping, and for experimental shipments of fruits within the United States and to foreign countries, $107,200: *Provided,* That $9,000 of said *Proviso.* Pecans.amount shall be available for the investigation and improvement of tho pecan, and methods of growing, harvesting, packing, and shipping of same;
To cultivate and care for the gardens and grounds of the Department Experimental gardens and grounds.of Agriculture in the city of Washington, including the Keep and lighting of the grounds and the construction, surfacing, and repairing of roadways and walks; and to erect, manage, and maintain conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture in the city of Washington ,911,690; For horticultural investigations, including the study of producing, Horticultural investigations.handling, and shipping truck and related crops, including potatoes, and the study of landscape and vegetable gardening, floriculture, and related subjects, 962,740;
For continuing the necessary improvements to establish and Arlington experimental farm.maintain a general experiment farm and agricultural station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, in accordance with the Vol. 31 p. 135.provisions of the Act of Congress approved April eighteenth, nineteen *Proviso.* Buildings.*Ante,* p. 1140.Foreign seed and plant introduction.hundred, $21,900: *Provided,* That the limitation in this Act as to the cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph;
For investigations in foreign seed and plant introduction, including the study, collection, purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries and from our possessions, and for experiments with reference to their introduction and cultivation in this country, 893,040; For the purchase, preparation, and irrigation of not to exceed one Chico, Cal. Land, etc., for plant breeding station.hundred and fifty acres of land at Chico, Butte County, California, $35,000:
For the purchase, propagation, testing, and distribution of new New and rare seeds, forage crops, etc.and rare seeds; for the investigation and improvement of grasses, alfalfa, clover, and other forage crops, including the investigation of the utilization of cacti and other dry-land plants; and to conduct investigations to determine the most effective methods of eradicating weeds, $143,180: *Provided,* That of this amount not to exceed $60,000 may be used for the purchase and distribution of such new and rare seeds;
For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned Administrative expenses.lines of investigation, including the office of the chief of bureau, the assistant chief of bureau, the chief clerk, the officers in charge of publications, records, supplies, and property, and for miscellaneous expenses incident thereto, $31,020; In all, for general expenses, $2,480,530. Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds: For purchase, Seeds, etc. Purchase, Congressional distribution, etc.negation, testing, and congressional distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants; all necessary office fixtures and supplies, fuel, transportation, paper, twine, gum, g festal cards, gas, electric current, rent outside of the District of Columbia, official traveling expenses, and all necessary material and repairs for putting up and distributing the same; for repairs and the employment of local and special agents, clerks assistants, and other labor required, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $243,720. 1144And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to expend the said sum, as nearly as practicable, in the purchase, testing, and distribution Seeds to be adapted to localities.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 *Provisos.* Contracts for packets, mailing, etc.various sections of the United States: *Provided,* That the Secretary of Agriculture, after due advertisement and on competitive bids, is authorized to award the contract for the supplying of printed packets and envelopes and the packeting, assembling, and mailing of the seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, or any part thereof, for a period of not more than five years nor less than one year, if by such action he can best protect the interests of the United States.
Congressional distribution.An equal proportion of five-sixths of all 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, in packages of such weight as the Secretary of Agriculture and the Postmaster General may jointly determine:
Contents to be indicated on wrapper, selection, etc.*Provided, however,* That upon each envelope or wrapper containing packages of seeds the contents thereof shall be plainly indicated, and the Secretary shall not distribute to any Senator, Representative, or Delegate seeds entirely unfit for the climate 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 the best adapted to the Early distribution for southern section.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 January:
Distribution of uncalled for allotments.*Provided, also,* That any portion of the allotments to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress remaining uncalled for on the first day 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 Report of purchases, etc.the department: *And provided, also,* That the Secretary shall report, as provided in this Act, the place, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, and the date of purchase; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from sending Diversion of appropriation forbiddenseeds to those who apply for the same.
And the amount herein appropriated shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose but for the purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, mulberry and other rare and valuable trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants. Total for Bureau of Plant Industry, $3,143,630. forest service. Forest Service. Pay of forester, supervisors, etc. Salaries, Forest Service: One forester, who shall be chief of bureau, $5,000; one chief of office of accounts and fiscal agent, $2,500; one inspector of records, $2,400; seven district fiscal agents, at $2,120 each; one forest supervisor, $2,800; one forest supervisor, $2,700; eight forest supervisors, at $2,400 each; twenty forest supervisors, at $2,200 each; forty-eight forest supervisor’s, at $2,000 each; sixty-six forest supervisors, at $1,800 each; five forest supervisors, at $1,600 each; one deputy forest supervisor, $1,800; four deputy forest supervisors, at $1,700 each; twenty-eight deputy forest super-1145visors, at $1,600 each; thirty-one deputy forest supervisors, at $1,500 each; eighteen deputy forest supervisors, at $1,400 each; ten forest rangers, at $1,500 each; twenty-two forest rangers, at $1,400 Rangers, etc.each; seventy-eight forest rangers, at $1,300 each; two hundred and eighty-seven forest rangers, at $1,200 each; six hundred and fifty forest rangers, at $1,100 each; eighty forest guards, at $1,100 each, for periods not exceeding six months in the aggregate; one clerk, Clerks, etc.$2,100; four clerks, at $2,000 each; nineteen clerks, at $1,800 each; twenty-one clerks, at $1,600 each; nine clerks, at $1,500 each; twenty-two clerks, at $1,400 each; nine clerks, at $1,300 each; one hundred and thirty-six clerks, at $1,200 each; ninety-five clerks, at $1,100 each; fifty-three clerks, at $1,020 each; thirty clerks, at $960 each; one hundred and seventeen clerks, at $900 each; two clerks, at $840 each; one clerk or proof reader, $1,400; one clerk or translator, $1,400; one compiler, $1,800; one draftsman, $2,000; one draftsman Draftsmen, etc.or surveyor, $1,800; three draftsmen, at $1,600 each; one clerk or compositor, $1,600; two draftsmen or surveyors, at $1,600 each; thirteen draftsmen or surveyors, at $1,500 each; two draftsmen or surveyors, at $1,400 each; two draftsmen, at $1,500 each; nine draftsmen, at $1,400 each; four draftsmen, at $1,300 each; thirteen draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two draftsmen, at $1,100 each; three draftsmen, at $1,020 each; one draftsman, $1,000; one draftsman, $960; twelve draftsmen or map colorists, at $900 each; one draftsman or artist, $1,200; one draftsman or negative cutter, $1,200; one artist, $1,600; one artist, $1,000; one photographer, $1,600; one photographer, $1,400; one photographer, $1,200; one photographer, $1,100; one lithographer, $1,200; one lithographer’s helper, $780; one blue-printer, $720; one machinist, $1,260; two carpenters, at Machinists, etc.$1,200 each; three carpenters, at $1,000 each; one carpenter, $960; one electrician, $1,020; one laboratory aid and engineer, $1,000; nine laboratory aids and engineers, at $900 each; two laboratory aids and engineers, at $800 each; one laboratory helper, $720; one laboratory helper, $600; one packer, $1,000; one packer, $780; four watchmen, Watchmen, laborers, etc.at $840 each; one messenger or laborer, $960; three messengers or laborers, at $900 each; four messengers or laborers, at $840 each; three messengers or laborers, at $780 each; four messengers or laborers, at $720 each; six messengers or laborers, at $660 each; five messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $600 each; two messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $540 each; three messengers or messenger boys, at $480 each; three messengers or messenger boys, at $420 each; eleven messengers or messenger boys, at $360 each; one charwoman, $540; one charwoman, $480; one charwoman, $300; eleven charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $2,447,800.
General expenses, Forest Service: To enable the Secretary of General expenses.Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or Investigations restricted to United States.test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American, timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Cost of buildings.Protection of national forests.That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed $650; to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, and improve the national forests; to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the national forests; and the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his Sale of timber.discretion, permit timber and other forest products cut or removed from the national forests to be exported from the State or Territory in which said forests are respectively situated; to transport and care Care of fish and game.for fish and game supplied to stock the national forests or the waters 1146 Agents, etc.therein; to employ agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in practical forestry and in the administration of national forests in the city of Washington and elsewhere; to collate, digest, report, and illustrate the results of experiments and investigations made by the Supplies, etc.Forest Service; to purchase necessary supplies, apparatus, and office fixtures, and technical books and technical journals for officers of the Forest Service stationed outside of Washington, and for medical supplies and services and other assistance necessary for immediate relief of artisans, laborer’s, and other employees engaged in any hazardous work under the Forest Service; to pay freight, express, telephone, and telegraph charges; for electric light and power, fuel, gas, ice, Wishing towels, and official traveling and other necessary expenses, including traveling expenses for legal and fiscal officers while performing Forest Service work; and for rent outside of the District of Columbia, as follows:
National forests. Maintenance, etc. For salaries and field and station expenses, including the maintenance of nurseries, collecting seed, and planting necessary for the use, maintenance, improvement, and protection of the national forests named below: Absaroka, Mont. Absaroka National Forest, Montana, $6,703; Angeles, Cal. Angeles National Forest, California, $11,926; Apache, Ariz. Apache National Forest, Arizona, $8,079; Arapahoe, Colo. Arapahoe National Forest, Colorado, $5,736;
Arkansas, Ark. Arkansas National Forest, Arkansas, $10,730; Ashley, Utah and Wyo. Ashley National Forest, Utah and Wyoming, $3,865; Battlement, Colo. Battlement National Forest, Colorado, $4,916; Beartooth, Mont. Beartooth National Forest, Montana, $4,313; Beaverhead, Mont. and Idaho. Beaverhead National Forest, Montana and Idaho, $5,296; Bighorn, Wyo. Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming, $6,937; Bitterroot, Mont. Bitterroot National Forest, Montana, $10,367; Blackfeet, Mont. Blackfeet National Forest, Montana, $1.2,969;
Black Hills, S. Dak. Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota, $12,668; Boise, Idaho. Boise National Forest, Idaho, $5,247; Bridger, Wyo. Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, $3,159; Cabinet, Mont. Cabinet National Forest, Montana, $9,133; Cache, Utah and Idaho. Cache National Forest, Utah and Idaho, $2,207; California, Cal. California National Forest, California, $15,028; Caribou, Idaho and Wyo. Caribou National Forest, Idaho and Wyoming, $6,403; Carson, N. Mex. Carson National Forest, New Mexico, $9,302;
Cascade, Oreg. Cascade National Forest, Oregon, $7,835; Challis, Idaho. Challis National Forest, Idaho, $3,668; Chelan, Wash. Chelan National Forest, Washington, $6,260; Chugach, Alaska. Chugach National Forest, Alaska, $10,938; Clearwater, Idaho. Clearwater National Forest, Idaho, $12,665; Cleveland, Cal. Cleveland National Forest, California, $8,433; Cochetopa, Colo. Cochetopa National Forest, Colorado, $5,931; Coconino, Ariz. Coconino National Forest, Arizona, $12,107; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Coeur d’Alene National Forest, Idaho, $39,117; Colorado, Colo. Colorado National Forest, Colorado, $3,959; Columbia, Wash. Columbia National Forest, Washington, $9,758; Colville, Wash. Colville National Forest, Washington, $6,883; Coronado, Ariz. Coronado National Forest, Arizona, $9,044; Crater, Oreg. and Cal. Crater National Forest, Oregon and California, $19,288; Crook, Ariz. Crook National Forest, Arizona, $3,735; Custer, Mont. Custer National Forest, Montana, $2,830; Datil, N.
Mex. Datil National Forest, New Mexico, $11,009; Deerlodge, Mont. Deerlodge National Forest, Montana, $19,813; Deschutes, Oreg. Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, $10,175; Dixie, Utah and Ariz. Dixie National Forest, Utah and Arizona, $1,596; Durango, Colo. Durango National Forest, Colorado, $4,964; Eldorado, Cal. and Nev. Eldorado National Forest, California and Nevada, $10,238; 1147 Fillmore National Forest, Utah, $4,987; Fillmore, Utah. Flathead National Forest, Montana, $25,900;
Flathead, Mont. Fishlake National Forest, Utah, $2,320; Fishlake, Utah. Florida National Forest, Florida, $4,927; Florida, Fla. Fremont National Forest, Oregon, $6,627; Fremont, Oreg. Gallatin National Forest, Montana, $4,810; Gallatin, Mont. Gila National Forest, New Mexico, $8,907; Gila, N. Mex. Gunnison National Forest, Colorado, $5,371; Gunnison, Colo. Harney National Forest, South Dakota, $6,535; Harney, S. Dak. Hayden National Forest, Wyoming and Colorado, $5,868; Hayden, Wyo. and Colo.
Helena National Forest, Montana, $4,012; Helena, Mont. Holy Cross National Forest, Colorado, $6,394; Holy Cross, Colo. Humboldt National Forest, Nevada, $5,780; Humboldt, Nev. Idaho National Forest, Idaho, $11,585; Idaho, Idaho. Inyo National Forest, California and Nevada, $3,076; Inyo, Cal. and Nev. Jefferson National Forest, Montana, $5,964; Jefferson, Mont. Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, $2,708; Kaibab, Ariz. Kaniksu National Forest, Idaho and Washington, $25,146; Kaniksu, Idaho and Wash.
Klamath National Forest, California, $20,249; Klamath, Cal. Kootenai National Forest, Montana, $17,861; Kootenai, Mont. La Sal National Forest, Utah and Colorado, $2,754; La Sal, Utah and Colo. Lassen National Forest, California, $14,181; Lassen, Cal. Leadville National Forest, Colorado, $5,524; Leadville, Colo. Lemhi National Forest, Idaho, $2,490; Lemhi, Idaho. Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana, $5,915; Lewis and Clark, Mont. Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, $8,067;
Lincoln, N. Mex. Lolo National Forest, Montana, $11,939; Lolo, Mont. Luquillo National Forest, Porto Rico, $2,500; Luquillo, P. R. Madison National Forest, Montana, $3,930; Madison, Mont. Malheur National Forest, Oregon, $7,591; Malheur, Oreg. Manti National Forest, Utah, $5,090; Manti, Utah. Manzano National Forest, New Mexico, $4,230; Manzano, N. Mex. Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming, $6,450; Medicine Bow, Wyo. Michigan National Forest, Michigan, $1,981; Michigan, Mich.
Minam National Forest, Oregon, $6,476; Minam, Oreg. Minidoka National Forest, Idaho and Utah, $4,709; Minidoka, Idaho and Utah. Minnesota National Forest, Minnesota, $2,970; Minnesota, Minn. Missoula National Forest, Montana, $9,380; Missoula, Mont. Modoc National Forest, California, $7,388; Modoc, Cal. Mono National Forest, Nevada and California, $1,647; Mono, Nev. and Cal. Monterey National Forest, California, $4,547; Monterey, Cal. Montezuma National Forest, Colorado, $4,670;
Montezuma, Colo. Nebraska National Forest, Nebraska, $1,165; and to extend Nebraska, Nebr.the work to the Niobrara division thereof, $5,000: *Provided,* That from *Provisos.* Voting trees to arid land residents.the nurseries on said forest the Secretary of Agriculture, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may furnish young trees free, so far as they may be spared, to residents of the territory Vol. 33, p. 547.covered by “An Act increasing the area of homesteads in a portion of Nebraska,” approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized Additional sites.to use so much of any of the funds herein appropriated for the Nebraska National Forest as may be necessary to acquire by purchase or condemnation lands in Nebraska which he may deem necessary and suitable for nursury sites to be used for the purpose of growing trees for planting on the Nebraska National Forest.
For the purchase of Purchase of land.land now under lease and used as a nursery site for the Niobrara division of the Nebraska National Forest, not exceeding $1,200; Cost of building.in all, $7,365: *Provided further,* That the cost of any building erected at the nurseries on the Nebraska National Forest may amount to but shall not exceed $1,000; Nevada National Forest, Nevada, $2,277; Nevada, Nev. 1148 Nez Perce, Idaho. Nez Perce National Forest, Idaho, $12,620; Ochoco, Oreg.
Ochoco National Forest, Oregon, $6,451; Okanogan, Wash. Okanogan National Forest, Washington, $8,964; Olympia, Wash. Olympic National Forest, Washington, $16,598; Oregon, Oreg. Oregon National Forest, Oregon, $16,009; Ozark, Ark. Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, $9,030; Payette, Idaho. Payette National Forest, Idaho, $10,537; Pend Oreille, Idaho. Pend Oreille National Forest, Idaho, $12,020; Pike, Colo. Pike National Forest, Colorado, $13,373; Plumas, Cal. Plumas National Forest, California, $20,594;
Powell, Utah. Powell National Forest, Utah, $1,010; Prescott, Ariz. Prescott National Forest, Arizona, $6,255; Rainier, Wash. Rainier National Forest, Washington, $13,035; Rio Grande, Colo. Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado, $7,157; Routt, Colo. Routt National Forest, Colorado, $6,585; Saint Joe, Idaho. Saint Joe National Forest, Idaho, $15,830; Salmon, Idaho. Salmon National Forest, Idaho, $6,577; San Isabel, Colo. San Isabel National Forest, Colorado, $3,924; San Juan, Colo.
San Juan National Forest, Colorado, $5,534; Santa Barbara, Cal. Santa Barbara National Forest, California, $9,774; Santa Fe, N. Mex. Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico, $14,673; Santiam, Oreg. Santiam National Forest, Oregon, $7,852; Sawtooth, Idaho. Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, $4,953; Selway, Idaho. Selway National Forest, Idaho, $17,112; Sequoia, Cal. Sequoia National Forest, California, $16,346; Sevier, Utah. Sevier National Forest, Utah, $2,110; Shasta, Cal. Shasta National Forest, California, $17,425;
Shoshone, Wyo. Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, $7,381; Sierra, Cal. Sierra National Forest, California, $15,750; Sioux, S. Dak. and Mont. Sioux National Forest, South Dakota and Montana, $2,640; Siskiyou, Oreg, and Cal. Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon and California, $12,660; Sitgreaves, Ariz. Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona, $8,341; Siuslaw, Oreg. Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, $6,042; Snoqualmie, Wash. Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, $12,366; Sopris, Colo.
Sopris National Forest, Colorado, $5,411; Stanislaus, Cal. Stanislaus National Forest, California, $16,922; Superior, Minn. Superior National Forest, Minnesota, $9,809; Tahoe, Cal. and Nev. Tahoe National Forest, California and Nevada, $16,337; Targhee, Idaho and Wyo. Targhee National Forest, Idaho and Wyoming, $9,558; Teton, Wyo. Teton National Forest, Wyoming, $4,404; Toiyabe, Nev. Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, $3,694; Tongass, Alaska. Tongass National Forest. Alaska, $12,524;
Tonto, Ariz. Tonto National Forest, Arizona, $4,525; Trinity, Cal. Trinity National Forest, California, $20,484; Tusayan, Ariz. Tusayan National Forest, Arizona, $9,541; Uintah, Utah. Uintah National Forest, Utah, $5,727; Umatilla, Oreg. Umatilla National Forest, Oregon, $6,562; Umpqua, Oreg. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon, $10,109; Uncompahgre, Colo. Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado, $6,690; Wallowa, Oreg. Wallowa National Forest, Oregon, $9,617; Wasatch, Utah. Wasatch National Forest, Utah, $7,300;
Washakie, Wyo. Washakie National Forest, Wyoming, $7,726; Washington, Wash. Washington National Forest, Washington, $7,642; Weiser, Idaho. Weiser National Forest, Idaho, $6,493; Wenaha, Wash, and Oreg. Wenaha National Forest, Washington and Oregon, $5,420; Wenatchee, Wash. Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, $11,884; White River, Colo. White River National Forest, Colorado, $6,272; Whitman, Oreg. Whitman National Forest, Oregon, $17,425; Wichita, Okla. Wichita National Forest, Oklahoma, $2,416;
Wyoming, Wyo. Wyoming National Forest, Wyoming, $5,089: 1149 Additional national forests created or to be created under section Additional forests under conservation Act Vol. 36, p. 963.eleven of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and sixty-three), and lands under contract for purchase or for the acquisition of which condemnation proceedings have been instituted for the purposes of said Act, $66,100: *Provided,* That hereafter, all moneys received on *Proviso.* Receipts from permits, etc.account of permits for hunting, fishing, or camping, on lands acquired under authority of said Act, or any amendment or extension thereof, shall be disposed of as is provided by existing law for the disposition of receipts from national forests;
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration Miscellaneous administration expenses.of the Forest Service and of the national forests specified above: In National Forest District One, $61,700; In National Forest District Two, $48,400; In National Forest District Three, $55,200; In National Forest District Four, $50,400; In National Forest District Five, $70,100; In National Forest District Six, $61,400; In National Forest District Seven, $14,900;
In the District of Columbia, $123,930; In all, for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, and Total.general administration of the specified national forests. $1,817,567: *Provided,* That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes *Provisos.* Interchangeable appropriations.shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture for the necessary expenditures for fire protection anti other unforeseen exigencies: *Provided further,* That the amounts Limit.so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate ten per centum of all the amounts so appropriated;
For the selection, classification, and segregation of lands within the Selecting lands for homestead entries.boundaries of national forests that may be opened to homestead settlement and entry under the homestead laws applicable to the national forests, $78,400; For the survey and platting of certain lands, chiefly valuable Survey, etc., of agricultural lands.for agriculture, now listed or to be listed within the national forests, under the Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Vol. 34, p. 233.Statutes, page two hundred and thirty-three), and the Act of Vol. 30, p. 1095;
Vol. 37, p. 842.March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine (Thirtieth Statutes, page one thousand and ninety-five), as provided by the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $69,300: *Provided,* That any unexpended balancé of an appropriation of $85,000 to be expended “for the survey and platting of certain lands, chiefly valuable for agriculture,” and so forth, provided by the Act of August eleventh, *Ante,* p. 461.nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen,” be, and the same is hereby, continued and made available for and during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the purpose of this appropriation;
For fighting and preventing forest fires and for other unforeseen Emergencies, fighting fires, etc.emergencies , $150,000; For the purchase and maintenance of necessary field, office, and Equipment supplies.laboratory supplies, instruments, and equipments, $161,100; For investigations of methods for wood distillation and for the preservative Investigating wood distillation, forest products, etc.treatment of timber, for timber testing, and the testing of such woods as may require test to ascertain if they be suitable for making paper, for investigations and tests within the United Cooperative commercial demonstrations.States of foreign woods of commercial importance to industries in the United States, and for other investigations and experiments to promote economy in the use of forest products, and for commercial demon-1150strations of improved methods or processes, in cooperation with individuals and companies, $155,600;
Range conditions. For experiments and investigations of range conditions within national forests or elsewhere on the public range, and of methods for improving the range by reseeding, regulation of grazing, and other means, $35,000; Tree planting, etc. For the purchase of tree seed, cones, and nursery stock, for seeding and tree planting within national forests, and for experiments and investigations necessary for such seeding and tree planting, $165,640; Management of forest lands, etc.
For silvicultural, dendrological, and other experiments and investigations independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Federal Government, with States and with individuals, to determine the best methods for the conservative management of forests and forest lands, $78,728; Timber sales, etc. For estimating and appraising timber and other resources on the national forests preliminary to disposal by sale or to the issue of occupancy permits, and for emergency expenses incident to their sale or use, $70,000;
Collating, etc., results. For other miscellaneous forest investigations, and for collating, digesting, recording, illustrating, and distributing the results of the experiments and investigations herein provided for, $33,140; Permanent improvements. For the construction and maintenance of roads, trails, bridges, fire lanes, telephone lines, cabins, fences, and other improvements necessary for the proper and economical administration, protection, and development of the national forests, $450,000: *Provided,* That not to *Provisos.* Fences, driveways, etc.*Ante,* p. 865.exceed $50,000 may be expended for the construction and maintenance of boundary and range division fences, counting corrals, stock driveways and bridges, the development of stock watering places, Eradicating poisonous plants.
Traveling expenses restricted. and the eradication of poisonous plants on the national forests: *And fowled further,* That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the transportation or traveling expenses of any forest officer or agent except he be traveling on business directly connected with the Forest Service and in furtherance of the works, aims, and objects specified and authorized in and by this appropriation: Articles for publications.*And provided also,* That no part of this appropriation shall be paid or used for the purpose of paying for, in whole or in part, the preparation or publication of any newspaper or magazine article, but this shall not prevent the giving out to all persons without discrimination, including newspaper and magazine writers and publishers, of any facts or official information of value to the public;
In all, for general expenses, $3,264,475. Conservation of navigable waters, etc. Vol. 36, p. 961. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture more effectively to carry out the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page nine hundred and sixty-one), entitled “An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition Expenses in Washington, D.
C.of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers,” $25,000 of the moneys appropriated therein, or for carrying out its purposes, shall be available for the employment of agents, title attorneys, clerks, assistants, and other labor and for the purchase of supplies and equipment required for the purpose of said Act in the city of Washington: Total for Forest Service, $5,712,275. Mining, etc., on lands acquired under conservation Act. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, under general regulations to be prescribed by him, to permit the prospecting, development, and utilization of the mineral resources of the lands acquired under Vol. 36, p. 961.the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page nine hundred and sixty-one), known as the Weeks law, upon such terms and for specified periods or otherwise, as he may deem to be for the best interests of the United States; and all 1151moneys received on account of charges, if any, made under this Act shall be disposed of as is provided by existing law for the disposition of receipts from national forests. bureau of chemistry.
Bureau of Chemistry. Salaries, Bureau of Chemistry; One chemist, who shall be Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.chief of bureau, $5,000; one chief clerk, $2,500; one executive clerk, $2,000; two executive clerks, at $2,000 each; eight clerks, class four; eleven clerks, class three; one clerk, $1,440; fourteen clerks, class two; one clerk, $1,300; forty-two clerks, class one; one clerk, $1,100; thirteen clerks, at $1,020 each; thirteen clerks, at $1,000 each; one clerk, $960; thirty-four clerks, at $900 each; one clerk, $840; one clerk, $720; two food and drug inspectors, at $2,500 Inspectors, etc.each; two food and drug inspectors, at $2,250 each; one food and drug inspector, $2,120; eleven food and drug inspectors, at $2,000 each; thirteen food and drug inspectors, at $1,800 each; one food and drug inspector, $1,620; eleven food and drug inspectors, at $1,600 each; thirteen food and drug inspectors, at $1,400 each; one assistant, $1,600; four laboratory helpers, at $1,200 each; one laboratory helper, $1,020; four laboratory helpers, at $1,000 each; four laboratory helpers, at $960 each; three laboratory helpers, at $900 each; six laboratory helpers, at $840 each; two laboratory helpers, at $780 each; twenty-three laboratory helpers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $720 each; two laboratory helpers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $660 each; thirty-four laboratory helpers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $600 each; one laboratory assistant, $1,200; one toolmaker, $1,200; two samplers, at $1,200 each; one janitor, $1,020; one mechanic, $1,400; one mechanic, $1,200; one mechanic, $1,020; one mechanic, $960; one mechanic, S900; two student assistants, at $300 each; two messengers, at $840 each; one skilled laborer, $1,050; one skilled laborer, $840; three messenger boys or laborers, at $540 each; twelve messenger boys or laborers, at $480 each; three messenger boys or laborers, at $420 each; two messenger boys or laborers, at $360 each; nine charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $362,990.
General expenses, Bureau of Chemistry: For all necessary expenses, General expenses. Apparatus, supplies, etc.for chemical apparatus, chemicals and supplies, repairs to apparatus, gas, electric current, official traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, for the employment of such assistants, clerks, and other persons as the Secretary of Agriculture may consider necessary for the purposes named, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, in conducting investigations, collecting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such investigations; and for rent outside of the District of Columbia, for carrying out the investigations and work herein authorized, as follows:
For conducting the investigations contemplated by the Act of General subjects. Vol. 12, p. 387.May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, relating to the application of chemistry to agriculture, $42,400; For collaboration with other departments of the Government Collaboration with other departments, etc.desiring chemical investigations and whose heads request the Secretary of Agriculture for such assistance, and for other miscellaneous work, $14,000; For investigating the character of the chemical and physical tests Examining foreign tests of American food products.which are applied to American food products in foreign countries, and for inspecting the same before shipment when desired by the shippers or owners of these products intended for countries whore chemical and physical tests are required before the said products are allowed to be sold therein; and for all necessary expenses in connection with such inspection and studies of methods of analysis in foreign countries, $4,280; 1152 Poultry and eggs investigations.
For investigating the preparation for market, handling, grading, packing, freezing, drying, storing, transportation, and preservation of poultry and eggs, and for experimental shipments of poultry and eggs within the United States, in cooperation with the Bureau of Markets and the Bureau of Animal Industry, $40,000; Fish handling, shipping, etc. For investigating the handling, grading, packing, canning, freezing, storing, and transportation of fish, and for experimental shipments of fish, for the utilization 01 waste products, and the development of new sources of food, $14,000;
Shipping oysters, etc. For investigating the packing, handling, storing, and shipping of oysters and other shellfish in the United States and the waters bordering on the United States, $5,000; Biological, etc., food examinations. For the biological investigation of food and drug products and substances used in the manufacture thereof, including investigations of the physiological effects of such products on the human organism, $15,000; Citrus fruits by-products, etc. For the study and improvement of methods of utilizing by-products of citrus fruits; and the investigation and development of methods for determining maturity in fruits and vegetables, in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry and the Bureau of Markets, $13,000;
Utilizing raw materials for colors, etc. For investigation and experiment in the utilization, for coloring purposes, of raw materials grown or produced in the United States, including repairs, alterations, improvements, or additions to a building on the Arlington Experimental Farm, $49,400; Table sirup. For the investigation and development of methods for the manufacture of table sirup, $7,000; Pure food inspection, etc. Vol. 34, p. 768. For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” in the city of Washington and elsewhere, including chemical apparatus, chemicals and supplies, repairs to apparatus, gas, electric current, official traveling expenses, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, and all other expenses, employing such assistants, clerks and other persons as may be considered necessary for the purposes named, and rent Revision of Pharmacopoeia.outside of the District of Columbia; and to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia and development of methods of analysis, $623,521;
Naval stores investigations, etc. For investigating the grading, weighing, handling and transportation of naval stores, the preparation of definite type samples thereof, and for the demonstration of improved methods or processes of preparing naval stores, in cooperation with individuals and companies, including the employment of necessary persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $10,000; In all, for general expenses, $837,601. Total for Bureau of Chemistry, $1,200,591. bureau of soils.
Soils Bureau. Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Salaries, Bureau of Soils: One soil physicist, who shall be chief of bureau, $4,000; one chief clerk, $2,000; one executive assistant, $2,000; four clerks, class four; two clerks, class three; five clerks, class two; one clerk, $1,260; eight clerks, class one; five clerks, at $1,000 each; five clerks, at $900 each; one soil cartographer, $1,800; one chief draftsman, $1,600; one soil bibliographer or draftsman, $1,400; one photographer, $1,200; five draftsmen, at $1,200 each; one clerk-draftsman, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $1,000 each; one laboratory helper, $1,000; three laboratory helpers, at $840 each; 1153one machinist, $1,380; one instrument maker, $1,200; one machinist’s helper, $900; one messenger, $840; three messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $480 each; two laborers, at $600 each; one laborer, $300; one charwoman or laborer, $480; in all, $72,220.
General expenses, Bureau of Soils: For all necessary expenses General expenses.connected with the investigations and experiments hereinafter authorized, including the employment of investigators, local and special agents, assistants, experts, clerks, draftsmen, and labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; official traveling expenses, materials, tools, instruments, apparatus, repairs to apparatus, chemicals, furniture, office fixtures, stationery, gas, electric current, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and for all other necessary supplies and expenses, as follows:
For chemical investigations of soil types, soil composition and soil Chemical investigations of soils.minerals, the soil solution, solubility of soil and all chemical properties of soils in their relation to soil formation, soil texture, and soil productivity, including all routine chemical work in connection with the soil survey, $25,610; For physical investigations of the important properties of soil Physical productivity investigations.which determine productivity, such as moisture relations, aerations, heat conductivity, texture, and other physical investigations of the various soil classes and soil types, $12,225;
For exploration and investigation within the United States Natural fertilizers.to determine possible sources of supply of potash, nitrates, and other natural fertilizers, $33,380; For the investigation of soils, in cooperation with other branches Cooperative investigation of soils, mapping, etc.of the Department of Agriculture, other departments of the Government, State agricultural experiment stations, and other State institutions, and for indicating upon maps and plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations, $198, 200;
For the examination and classification of agricultural lands in Agricultural lands in national forests.forest reserves, in cooperation with the Forest Service, $18,100; For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned Administrative expenses.lines of investigation, $4,000; In all, for general expenses, $291,515. That so much of the appropriation of $175,000 made by the Agricultural Potash investigation.Reappropriation for experimental plants.*Ante,* p. 465.appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen for the investigation and demonstration within the United States to determine the best method of obtaining potash on a commercial scale, including the establishment and equipment of such plant or plants as maybe necessary therefor, as remains unexpended is hereby re appropriated for the purposes named.
Total for Bureau of Soils, $363,735. bureau of entomology. Bureau of Entomology. Salaries, Bureau of Entomology: One entomologist, who shall Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.be chief of bureau, $4,500; one chief clerk and executive assistant, $2,250; one administrative assistant, $2,250; one financial clerk, $1,800; three clerks, class four; four clerks, class three; ten clerks, class two; nine clerks, class one; ten clerks, at $1,000 each; four clerks, at $900 each; five clerks, at $840 each; two entomological draftsmen, at $1,400 each; one entomological draftsman, $1,080; four foremen, at $1,080 each; one entomological preparator, $1,000; four entomological preparators, at $840 each; eight entomological preparators, at $720 each; seven entomological preparators, at $600; two messengers or laborers, at $900 each; two messengers or laborers, at $840 each; three messengers or laborers, at $720 each; one messenger boy, $480; five messenger boys, at $360 each; one mechanic, $1,080; one mechanic, $900; one mechanic, $840; one laborer, 1154$600; one laborer, $540; one laborer, $480; one laborer, $420; two charwomen, at $480 each; three charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $102,180.
General expenses. Investigations of insects, etc. General expenses, Bureau of Entomology: For the promotion of economic entomology; for investigating the history and the habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, and the study of insects affecting the health of man and domestic animals, and ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious; for collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such investigations; for salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, freight, express charges, official traveling expenses, office fixtures, supplies, apparatus, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and electric current, in connection with the Specific objects.following investigations:
Fruit, fruit trees, etc. *Proviso.* Pecans. For investigations of insects affecting deciduous fruits, orchards, vineyards, and nuts, $83,380: *Provided,* That $9,600 of said sum shall be available for the investigation of insects affecting the pecan and method of control of same; Cereal and forage crops. For investigations of insects affecting cereal and forage crops, including a special investigation of the Hessian fly and the chinch bug, $123,260; Southern field crops. For investigations of insects affecting southern field crops, including insects affecting cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and so forth, and the cigarette beetle and Argentine ant, $89,400;
Forests. For investigations of insects affecting forests, $50,770; Truck crops, stored products, etc. For investigations of insects affecting truck crops, including insects affecting the potato, sugar beet, cabbage, onion, tomato, beans, peas, and so forth, and insects affecting stored products, $47,760; Bee culture. For investigations and demonstrations in bee culture, $20,000; Tropical and subtropical fruits. For investigations of insects affecting tropical and subtropical fruits, including insects affecting the orange, lemon, grapefruit, mango, and so forth, $17,100;
Fruit flies. For investigations and control, in cooperation with the Federal Horticultural Board, of the Mediterranean and other fruit flies, $33,200; Miscellaneous insects. For investigations, identifications, and systematic classification of miscellaneous insects, including the study of insects affecting the health of man and domestic animals, household insects, and the importation and exchange of useful insects, $56,380; Administrative expenses. For general administrative expenses connected with above lines of investigations, and for miscellaneous expenses incident thereto, $3,000:
In all, for general expenses, $524,250. Gypsy and browntail moths. Controlling spread of, etc. Preventing spread of moths, Bureau of Entomology: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the continued spread of the gypsy and brown-tail moths by conducting such experiments as may be necessary to determine the best methods of controlling these insects; by introducing and establishing the parasites and natural enemies of these insects and colonizing Cooperative quarantine against.
Vol. 37, pp. 315 , 854.them within the infested territory; by establishing and maintaining a quarantine against further spread in such manner as is provided by the general nursery-stock law, approved August twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to regulate the importation of nursery stock and other plants and plant products, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant diseases and insect pests, to permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes,” in cooperation with the authorities of the different States concerned and with the several State expert-1155ment stations, including rent outside of the District of Columbia, the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and for medical supplies and services and other assistance necessary for the immediate relief of foremen, scouts and laborers, and other employees injured while engaged in hazardous work under this item of appropriation, and all other necessary expenses, $305,050.
Total for Bureau of Entomology, $931,480. bureau of biological survey. Biological Survey Bureau. Salaries, Bureau of Biological Survey: One biologist, who Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.shall be chief of bureau, $3,500; one chief clerk and executive assistant, $1,800; one administrative assistant, $2,250; one financial clerk, $1,600; three clerks, class three; five clerks, class two; one clerk, $1,260; six clerks, class one; one clerk, $1,080; three clerks, at $1,000 each; four clerks, at $900 each; one clerk, $840; one clerk, $720; one preparator, $1,200; one preparator, $900; one messenger, $720; one photographer, $1,300; one game warden, $1,200; two messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $480 each; one messenger boy, $360; one laborer, $600; two charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $46,370.
General expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey: For salaries General expenses.and employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, traveling, and all other expenses necessary in conducting investigations and carrying out the work of the bureau, as follows: For the enforcement of sections two hundred and forty-one, two Preventing shipment of prohibited birds, etc. Vol. 35, pp. 1137, 1138.hundred and forty-two, two hundred and forty-three, and two hundred and forty-four of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” and for the enforcement of section Carrying illegally killed game.
Vol. 31, p. 187.one of the Act approved May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes,” including all necessary investigations in connection therewith, $22,000; For the maintenance of the Montana National Bison Range and Reservations for game animals and birds. Maintenance.other reservations and for the maintenance of game introduced into suitable localities on public lands, under supervision of the Biological Survey, including construction of fencing, wardens’ quarters, shelters for animals, landings, roads, trails, bridges, ditches, telephone lines, rockwork, bulkheads, and other improvements necessary for the economical administration and protection of the reservations, and Protection of bird preserves.
Vol. 35, p. 1104.for the enforcement of section eighty-four of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” $35,000, of which sum $2,500 may be used for the purchase, capture, and transportation Purchase of game.of game for national reservations; For the maintenance and improvement of the game preserve in Sullys Hill Park, N. Dak. Game preserve.Sullys Hill National Park, in the State of North Dakota, including the construction of all fences, sheds, buildings, corrals, roads, and other structures which may be necessary, in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated, $5,000, the same to be available until expended;
For investigating the food habits of North American birds and Food habits of birds and animals.mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry, including experiments and demonstrations in destroying wolves, coyotes, prairie dogs, and other animals injurious to agriculture and animal husbandry, and for investigations and experiments in connection with rearing of fur-bearing animals, including mink Fur-bearing animals.*Provisos.* Destroying ground squirrels.Wolves, coyotes, etc.and marten, $395,540: *Provided,* That of this sum $15,000 shall be used for the destruction of ground squirrels on the national forests, and other public lands:
And provided also, That of this sum not less than 1156$125,000 shall be used on the national forests and the public domain in destroying wolves, coyotes, and other animals injurious to agriculture, Protecting domestic animals from rabies.animal husbandry, and wild game: *And provided further,* That of this sura not more than $125,000 shall be used on the public lands, national forests, and elsewhere in the Western and Northwestern States for the protection of stock and other domestic animals through the suppression of rabies by the destruction of wolves, coyotes, and other predatory wild animals;
Biological investigations. For biological investigations, including the relations, habits, geographic distribution, and migrations of animals and plants, and the preparation of maps of the life zones, $25,600; Migratory birds, enforcing law for protect.Vol. 37, p. 847. *Post,* p. 1792.*Post,* p. 1702. For all necessary expenses for enforcing the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, pages eight hundred and forty-seven and eight hundred and forty-eight), relating to the protection of migratory game and insectivorous birds, and for cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and for necessary investigations connected therewith, $50,000;
Administrative expenses. For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned lines of work, including cooperation with other Federal bureaus, departments, boards, and commissions, on request from them, $12,560; In all, for general expenses, $545,700. Total for Bureau of Biological Survey, $592,070. division of accounts and disbursements. Accounts and Disbursements Division. Pay of chief of division, clerks, etc. Salaries, Division of Accounts and Disbursements:
One chief of division and disbursing clerk, $4,000; one supervising auditor, $2,250; one cashier and chief clerk, $2,250; one deputy disbursing clerk, $2,000; one accountant and bookkeeper, $2,000; two clerks, class four; four clerks, class three; six clerks, class two; five clerks, class one; four clerks, at $1,000 each; three clerks, at $900 each; one messenger, $720; one messenger or messenger boy, $600. Total for Division of Accounts and Disbursements, $44,920. division of publications.
Publications Division. Pay of chief of division, editors, etc. Salaries, Division of Publications: One editor, who shall be chief of division, $3,500; one editor, who shall be assistant chief of division, $2,500; one chief clerk, $2,000; two assistant editors, at $2,000 each; four assistant editors, at $1,800 each; one assistant editor, $1,600; one assistant editor, $1,400; one assistant editor in charge of indexing, $2,000; one indexer, $1,400; one assistant in charge of illustrations, $2,100; two draftsmen or photographers, at $1,600 each; two draftsmen or photographers, at $1,500 each; three draftsmen or photographers, at $1,400 each; one draftsman or photographer, $1,300; eight draftsmen or photographers, at $1,200 each; one assistant photographer, $900; one lantern slide colorist, $840; one assistant in charge of document section, $2,000; one assistant in document section, $1,800; one assistant in document section, $1,400;
Clerks, etc.one foreman, miscellaneous distribution, $1,500; one clerk, class three; one clerk, class two; eleven clerks, class one; sixteen clerks, at $1,000 each; forty clerks, at $900 each; eighteen clerks, at $840 each; two skilled laborers, at $900 each; seven skilled laborers, at $840 each; four skilled laborers, at $780 each; one chief folder, $1,200; seventeen skilled laborers, messengers, or messenger boys, at $720 each; one skilled laborer, $720; one folder, $1,000; two folders, at $900 each; two skilled laborers, at $1,100 each; one skilled laborer, $1,000; two messengers, at $840 each; three messengers or messenger boys, at $600 each; two messengers or messenger boys, at $480 each; 1157two messengers or messenger boys, at $420 each; two messengers or messenger boys, at $360 each; one laborer, $840; two laborers, at $600 each; three charwomen, at $480 each; three charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $181,920.
General expenses, Division of Publications: For miscellaneous General expenses.objects of expenditure in connection with the publication, indexing, illustration, and distribution of bulletins, documents, and reports, as follows: For labor-saving machinery, including necessary supplies, $3,500; Supplies, etc. For envelopes, stationery, and materials, $6,500; For office furniture and fixtures, $1,320; For photographic equipment and for photographic materials Photographic materials, etc. *Provisos.* Loans, sales, etc., of films.Use of proceeds. and artiste’ tools and supplies, $17,000: *Provided,* That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, under such rules and regulations and subject to such conditions as be may prescribe, to loan, rent, or sell copies of films: *Provided,* That in the sale or rental of films educational institutions or associations for agricultural education not organized for profit shall have preference; all moneys received from such rentals or sales to be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts;
For telephone and telegraph service and freight and express charges, $250; For wagons, bicycles, horses, harness, and maintenance of the same, $500; For purchase of manuscripts, traveling expenses, electrotypes, illustrations, and other expenses not otherwise provided for, $3,000; In all, for general expenses, $32,070. Total for Division of Publications, $213,990. bureau of crop estimates. Salaries, Bureau of Crop Estimates: One statistician, Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.who shall be chief of bureau, $4,000; one chief clerk, $1,800; six clerks, class four; nine clerks, class three; fifteen clerics, class two; one clerk, $1,300; nineteen clerks, class one; nineteen clerks, at $1,000 each; twenty-four clerks, at $900 each; two messengers, at $840 each; two messengers or laborers, at $720 each; two messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $660 each; one messenger, messenger boy, or laborer, $480; one charwoman, messenger, or laborer, $540; two charwomen, messenger boys, or laborers, at $360 each; in all, $122,880.
General expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates: For all necessary General expenses.expenses for collecting, compiling, abstracting, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data relating to agriculture; for making and publishing periodically crop and five-stock estimates, including acreage, yield, and value of farm products, as follows: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Issue of Monthly Crop Report.That hereafter the Monthly Crop Report shall be printed and distributed on or before the twelfth day of each month;
Salaries and employment of labor in the city of Washington and Expenses in Washington.elsewhere, supplies, telegraph and telephone service, freight and express charges, and all other necessary miscellaneous administrative expenses, $24,700; Salaries, travel, and other necessary expenses of employees out of Out of Washington.the city of Washington engaged in field investigations, $175,872; In all, for general expenses, $200,572. Total for Bureau of Crop Estimates, $323,452. library, department of agriculture.
Library. Salaries, Library, Department of Agriculture: One librarian, Pay of librarian, clerks, etc.$2,000; one clerk, class three; one clerk, class two; five clerks, class one; three clerks, at $1,080 each; three clerks, at $1,020 each; four 1158clerks, at $1,000 each; six clerks, at $900 each; one clerk, $840; one junior library assistant, messenger, or messenger boy, $720; one junior library assistant or messenger boy, $660; three junior library assistants or messenger boys, at $600 each; one messenger, messenger boy, or laborer, $480; two charwomen, at $480 each; in all, $32,160.
General expenses. General expenses, Library: For books of reference, technical and scientific books, papers and periodicals, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series; for the employment of additional assistants in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for official traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $18,000. Total for Library, $50,160. miscellaneous expenses. Miscellaneous. Contingent expenses.
Miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture: For 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, and matting: for lights, freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, telephoning, postage, washing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating apparatus; for the purchase, subsistence, and care of horses and the purchase and repair of harness and vehicles, for official purposes only; for the payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agriculture’s proportionate share of the expense of the dispatch agent in New York; for official traveling expenses; and for other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the department, $137,500. rent in the district of columbia.
Rent. Buildings in District of Columbia. Rent of buildings, Department of Agriculture: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, for use of the various bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department of Agriculture, *Proviso.* Joint Committee to investigate space needed, etc.$143,689: *Provided,* That a joint committee to be composed of three members of the Senate, appointed by the President of the Senate, and three members of the House, appointed by the Speaker of the House, is hereby constituted, who shall investigate the amount of floor space required by the Department of Agriculture for its various activities in the City of Washington, the annual rental now paid by the Department, the land available for the erection of Government owned buildings to meet the needs of the Department, together with the cost of erecting the same, and report to Congress not later than the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and seventeen. states relations service.
States Relations Service. Pay of director, clerks, etc. Salaries, States Relations Service: One director, $4,500; one chief clerk, $2,000; one financial clerk, $2,000; one clerk or proof reader, $1,800; three clerks, class four; three clerks, class three; one clerk, $1,500; ten clerks, class two; twenty-two clerks, class one; twenty-three clerks, at $1,000 each; twenty-seven clerks, at $900 each; eight clerks, at $840 each; four clerks, at $720 each; one library cataloguer, $900; two messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $720 each; four messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $600 each; ten messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $480 each; one messenger, messenger boy, or laborer, $360; three messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at $300 each; one skilled laborer, $900; four laborers or charwomen, at $480 each; nine laborers or charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $135,080. 1159 General expenses, States Relations Service:
To carry into Support of agricultural experiment stations. Vol. 24, p. 440.effect the provisions 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 Vol. 12, p. 503.several States under the provisions of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Acts supplementary thereto,” the sums apportioned to the several States and Territories, to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000;
To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March sixteenth, Allotment of additional appropriations. Vol. 34, p. 63.nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof,” the suras apportioned to the several States and Territories, to be paid quarterly in advance, *Proviso.* Limit.$720,000: *Provided,* That not to exceed $15,000 shall be paid to each State and Territory under this Act;
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions Cooperative agricultural extension work. Vol. 38, p. 372.of the above Acts and the Act approved May eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of Act supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture,” relative to their administration and for the administration of agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the island of Guam, including the employment of clerks, assistants, and other persons Clerical, etc., expenses.in the city of Washington and elsewhere, freight and express charges, official traveling expenses, office fixtures, supplies, apparatus, telegraph and telephone service, gas, electric current, and rent outside of the District of Columbia, $68,500; and the Secretary of Agriculture Annual statements.shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required under the above Acts, ascertain whether the expenditures are in accordance with their provisions, coordinate the work of the Department of Agriculture with that of the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations in the lines authorized in said Acts, and make report thereon to Congress;
For farmers’ cooperative demonstration work outside of the cotton Demonstration work outside cotton belt.belt, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $578,240; For farmers’ cooperative demonstrations and for the study and Cooperative demonstrations, cotton-boll weevil.demonstration of the best methods of meeting the ravages of the cotton-boll weevil, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $659,560: *Provided,* That the expense of such service shall be *Proviso.* Voluntary contributions accepted.defrayed from this appropriation and such cooperative funds as may be voluntarily contributed by State, county, and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, and individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the State;
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report Farmers’ institutes and agricultural schools. Investigating progress of.upon the organization and progress of farmers’ institutes and agricultural schools 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, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $20,600;
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain Stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam.agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, 1160and the island of Guam, including the erection of buildings, the preparation, illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins, and all other necessary expenses, $155,000, as follows: Alaska, $60,000, of which, sum $10,000 shall be immediately available for the location, equipment, and maintenance of an agricultural experiment Matanuska Valley, Alaska.station in the Matanuska Valley;
Hawaii, $40,000; Porto Rico, $40,000; and Guam, $15,000; and the Secretary of Agriculture is Sale of products.authorized to sell such products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, *Proviso.* Extension work in Hawaii.and the island of Guam: *Provided,* That of the sum herein appropriated for the experiment station in Hawaii $5,000 may be used in agricultural extension work in Hawaii; Utilization of farm products for food, etc.
To enable the Secretary of Agri culture to investigate the relative utility and economy of agricultural products for food, clothing, and other uses in the home, with special suggestions of plans and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for these purposes, with the cooperation of other bureaus of the department, and to disseminate useful information on this subject, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $35,000;
Administrative expenses. For general administrative expenses connected with the lines of work of the States Relations Service, including the offices of the director, the chief clerk, the officers in charge of publications, library, accounts, records, supplies, and property, and for miscellaneous expenses incident thereto, $15,680; In all, for general expenses, $2,972,580. Total for States Relations Service, $3,107,660. office of public roads and rural engineering. Public Roads and Rural Engineering Office.
Pay of director, clerks, etc. Salaries, Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering: One director, who shall be a scientist and have charge of all scientific and technical work, $4,500; one editor, $2,500; one draftsman or clerk, $1,920; one clerk, $1,900; one model maker, $1,800; two clerks, class four; five clerks, class three; one clerk or editorial clerk, 81,600; one clerk, $1,500; one clerk or photographer, $1,440; one clerk or instrument maker, $1,440; one clerk or tabulator, $1,440; one clerk, class two; one clerk, $1,380; two clerks, at $1,320 each; four clerks, at $1,260 each; six clerks, class one; one clerk or editorial clerk, 81,200; one draftsman, $1,320; one clerk or draftsman, $1,200; one clerk or draftsman, $900; one clerk or photographer, $1,200; one clerk or photographer, $1,000; two clerks, at $1,140 each; two clerks, at $1,080 each; one clerk, $1,020; eight clerks, at $1,000 each; one clerk or skilled laborer, $1,000; three clerks, at $900 each; one mechanician, $1,680; one clerk or instrument maker, $1,200; one lantern slide colorist, $1,320; one mechanic, $1,200; one carpenter, $1,200; one laboratory aid, 8960; one messenger, laborer, or laboratory helper, $840; one messenger or laborer, $840; two messengers, laborers, or laboratory helpers, at $720 each; two messengers or laborers, at $660 each; six messengers, laborers, or messenger boys, at $600 each; one skilled laborer, $720; one fireman, $720; seven laborers, messenger boys, or charwomen, at $480 each; seven charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $95,360.
General expenses. General expenses, Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering: For salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, office fixtures, apparatus, traveling and all other necessary expenses, for conducting investigations and experiments, and for collating, reporting, and illustrating the results of same, and for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and *Proviso.* Restriction on roadmaking machinery.reports, as follows: *Provided,* That no part of these appropriations shall be expended for the rent or purchase of road-making 1161machinery, except such as may be necessary for field experimental work as hereinafter provided for:
For inquiries in regard to systems of road management throughout Road management.the United States and for giving expert advice on this subject, $41,040; For investigations of the best methods of road making, especially Road-making materials, etc.ordinary sand-clay and dirt roads, and the best kinds of road-making materials and for furnishing expert advice on road building and maintenance, $141,780; For investigations of the chemical and physical character of road Chemical investigations.materials, $51,220;
For conducting field experiments and various methods of road construction Field experiments, etc.and maintenance, and investigations concerning various road materials and preparations; for investigating and developing equipment intended for the preparation and application of bituminous and other binders; for the purchase of materials and equipment; for the employment of assistants and labor; for the erection of buildings; such experimental work to be confined as nearly as possible to one point during the fiscal year, $60,000;
For investigating and reporting upon the utilization of water in Farm irrigation, etc., investigations.farm irrigation, including the best methods to apply in practice; the different kinds of power and appliances, and the development of equipment for farm irrigation; the flow of water in ditches, pipes, and other conduits; the duty, apportionment, and measurement of irrigation water; the customs, regulations, and laws affecting irrigation ; for tho purchase and installation of equipment for experimental purposes; for the giving of expert advice and assistance; for the preparation and illustration of reports and bulletins on irrigation ; for the employment of assistants and labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for rent outside of the District of Columbia; and for supplies and all necessary expenses, $102,440;
For investigating and reporting upon farm drainage and upon Drainage investigations of swamp lands, farms, etc.the drainage of swamp and other wet lands which may be made available for agricultural purposes; for preparing plans for the removal of surplus water by drainage, and for giving expert assistance by advice or otherwise in the drainage of such lands; for conducting field experiments and investigations concerning the construction and maintenance of farm drainage work; for investigating and developing equipment intended for the construction and maintenance of farm drainage structures; for the purchase of materials and equipment; and for preparing and illustrating reports and bulletins on drainage; and for the employment of assistants and labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for rent outside the District of Columbia, and for supplies and all necessary expenses, $93,760;
For investigating farm domestic water supply and drainage disposal, Farm domestic water supply, etc.the construction of farm buildings, and other rural engineering problems involving mechanical principles, including the erection of such structures outside of the District of Columbia as may be necessary for experimental purposes only, the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $25,000; For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned Administrative expenses.lines of investigations and experiments, $16,000;
For the erection and equipment of a laboratory building on the Research laboratory at Arlington Farm.Arlington Farm property of the United States Department of Agriculture for permanent quarters for the testing and research work of the Office of Public. Roads and Rural Engineering, plans and specifications to be prepared and work done under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, $75,000; In all, for general expenses, $606,240. Total for Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, $701,600. 1162 bureau of markets.
Bureau of Markets. Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Salaries, Bureau of Markets: One chief of bureau, $4,500; one chief clerk, $2,000; one administrative assistant, $2,500; one administrative assistant, $1,980; five clerks, class four; ten clerks, class three; fifteen clerks, class two; one clerk, $1,380; one clerk, $1,320; twenty-nine clerks, class one; one clerk, $1,140; two clerks, at $1,100 each; thirty clerks, at $1,000 each; three clerks, at $1,080 each; two clerks, at $1,020 each; twenty clerks, at $900 each; three clerks, at $840 each; two clerks, at $720 each; one mechanical assistant, $1,800; one mechanical assistant, $1,380; one laboratory helper, $900; three laboratory aids, at $900 each; one laboratory aid, $840; seven laboratory aids, at $720 each; two laboratory aids, at $600 each; one photographer, $1,400; one photographer, $1,200; one supervising telegrapher, $1,620; one telegraph operator, $1,400; two telegraph operators, at $1,200 each; one telephone operator, $600; one draftsman, $900; one map tracer, $900; one map tracer, $720; one map tracer, $600; one map tracer, $480; two skilled laborers, at $900 each; one laborer, $720; two laborers, at $660 each; four messenger boys or laborers, at $600 each; four messenger boys or laborers, at $540 each; ten messenger boys or laborers, at $480 each; two messenger boys, at $420 each; one messenger boy, $360; one charwoman, $540; two charwomen, at $480 each; one charwoman, $300; two charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $197,820.
General expenses. General expenses, Bureau of Markets: For salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, traveling expenses, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and all other expenses necessary in conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations, as follows: Diffusing information of farm products, supplies, etc. For acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with the marketing and distributing of farm and nonmanufactured food products and the purchasing of farm supplies, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the department, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the transportation, marketing, and distributing of farm and food products, $289,400;
Distributing market prices. For collecting and distributing, by telegraph, mail, and otherwise, timely information on the supply, commercial movement, disposition, and market prices of fruits and vegetables, $184,740, of which sum $40,000 shall be immediately available; Live stock and products. Collecting and distributing specific information of raising, marketing, etc. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to gather from stockmen, live-stock associations, State live-stock and agricultural boards, common carriers, stockyards, commission firms, live-stock exchanges, slaughtering and meat-packing companies, and others information relative to the number of different classes and grades of marketable live stock, especially cattle, hogs, and sheep in the principal live-stock feeding districts and growing sections; prices, receipts, and shipments of the different classes and grades of cattle, hogs, and sheep at livestock market centers ; prices of meats and meat food products and the amounts of such products in storage; to compile and publish such information at such frequent intervals as most effectively to guide producers, consumers, and distributors in the sale and purchase of live stock, meats, and other animal products; and to gather and publish any related information pertaining to marketing and distribution of live stock, meats, and animal by-products, the sum of $66,800;
Food products, production, marketing, etc. To make investigation relating to the production, transportation, storage, preparation, marketing, manufacture, and distribution of agricultural food products, including the extent, manner, and methods of any manipulation of the markets or control of the visible supply of 1163such food products or any of them by any individuals, groups, associations, combinations, or corporations, $50,000; For investigating, demonstrating, and promoting the use of standards Cotton standards, ginning, etc.for the different grades, qualities, and conditions of cotton, and for investigating the ginning, grading, stapling, baling, marking, compressing, and tare of cotton, $48,000: *Provided,* That of the sum *Proviso.* Testing spinning value, etc.thus appropriated $28,620 may be used for testing the waste, tensile strength, and bleaching qualities of the different grades and classes of cotton in order to determine their spinning value and for demonstrating the results of such tests;
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make studies of cooperation Rural credits. Cooperative study of, diffusing information, etc.among farmers in the United States in matters of rural credits and of other forms of cooperation in rural communities; to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information growing out of these studies, in order to provide a basis for a broader utilization of results secured by the research, experimental, and demonstration work of the Department of Agriculture, agricultural colleges, and State experiment stations, $30,760;
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the Farm products. Cooperative distribution of information of.several States in the employment of agents to acquire and diffuse useful information connected with the distribution and marketing of farm products through investigational, demonstrational, or extension methods, $43,000; For investigating the handling, grading, and transportation of Grain handling, grading, etc.grain, including the grain sorghums, for the purpose of fixing definite grades thereof, $106,590;
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the Act Climax, etc., baskets for small fruits, etc.Administering regulations.*Ante,* p. 673.entitled “An Act to fix standards for Climax baskets for grapes and other fruits and vegetables, and to fix standards for baskets and other containers for small fruits, berries, and vegetables, and for other purposes,” approved August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $4,000;
For general administrative expenses in connection with the lines Administrative expenses.of investigation, experiment, and demonstration conducted in the Bureau of Markets, $20,105; In all, for general expenses, $843,395. Enforcement of the United States cotton-futures Act: To Cotton futures Act.Expenses of enforcing.*Ante,* p. 476.enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States cotton-futures Act, including all expenses necessary for the purchase of equipment and supplies; for travel; for the employment of persons in the city of Washington and else-where ; and for all other expenses, including rent outside of the District of Columbia, that may be necessary in executing the provisions of this Act, $98,600.
Enforcement of the United States grain-standards Act: Grain Standards Act.Expenses of enforcing.*Ante,* p. 482.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States grain standards Act, including such rent and the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $519,140. Administration of the United States warehouse Act: To Warehouse Act.Expenses of administering.*Ante,* p. 486.enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States warehouse Act, including the payment of such rent and the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $59,620.
Total for Bureau of Markets, $1,718,575. Hereafter, in the performance of the duties required of the Department Administration of oaths, etc., authorized.of Agriculture by the provisions of this Act relating to the 1164Bureau of Markets, the Secretary of Agriculture shall have power to administer oaths, examine witnesses, and call for the production of books and papers. enforcement of the insecticide act. Insecticide Act. Pay of executive officer, etc., enforcement of. Salaries, enforcement of the insecticide Act:
One executive officer, $2,750; one executive assistant, $2,000; one clerk, class three; one clerk, class two; one clerk, class one; two clerks, at $1,140 each; two clerks, at $1,000 each; three insecticide and fungicide inspectors, at $1,600 each: two clerks and sample collectors, at $1,000 each; one laboratory helper, $840 ; one laboratory helper, $720 ; one laboratory helper, $600; one unskilled laborer, $600; one unskilled laborer, $480; two messenger boys or laborers, at $480 each; one messenger boy, $360; one charwoman, $480; in all, $25,070.
General expenses. General expenses, enforcement of the insecticide Act: For salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, traveling expenses, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and for all necessary expenses, as follows: Salaries, supplies, etc. Vol. 36, p. 331. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, and other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” $87,430.
Total for enforcement of the insecticide Act, $112,500. federal horticultural board. Federal Horticultural Board. Salaries. Salaries, Federal Horticultural Board: One secretary of board, $2,280; one clerk, class four; two clerks, at $1,440 each; two clerks, class two; two clerks, at $1,260 each; one clerk, $1,080; three clerks, at $1,000 each; three clerks, at $900 each; one messenger boy, $480; two messenger boys, at $360 each; one charwoman, $240; m all, $20,500. General expenses.
General expenses, Federal Horticultural Board: For salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, traveling expenses, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and for all other necessary expenses, as follows: Enforcing plant, etc., quarantine Act. Vol. 37, p. 315, 854. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of August twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An Act to regulate the importation of nursery stock and other plants and plant products; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant diseases and insect pests; to permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes,” $54,500;
Pink boll worm of cotton. Emergency measures to prevent introduction of, from Mexico. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the existence of the pink boll worm of cotton in Mexico and the movement of some five hundred carloads of cotton seed from the infested districts in Mexico to milling points in Texas and elsewhere, and to prevent the establishment of such insect in Texas or in any other State by providing for adequate inspection and the employment of all means necessary under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, to prohibit the movement of cotton and cotton seed from Mexico into the United States, including the examination of baggage and railroad cars or other means of conveyance and the cleaning and disinfection Inspection, destruction, etc.thereof; to inspect mills in Texas or elsewhere in the United States to which Mexican cotton seed has been taken for milling; to supervise the destruction, by manufacture or otherwise, of such seed and the thorough clean-up of the mills and premises ; to conduct local sur-1165veys and inspections of cotton fields in the vicinity of such mills and Cooperation with States.ports of entry in order to detect any instances of local infestation; and to determine and conduct such control measures in cooperation with the State of Texas or other States concerned as may be necessary to stamp out such infestation, including rent outside of the District of Columbia, employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $50,000, available immediately and until expended;
In all, for general expenses, $104,500. Total for Federal Horticultural Board, $125,000. That section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the importation Plant, etc., quarantine. Vol. 37, p. 318, amended.of nursery stock and other plants and plant products; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant diseases and insect pests; to permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes,” approved August twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
"“Sec. 8. That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed Interstate quarantine against plant diseases or insect infestation, authorized.to quarantine any State, Territory, or District of the United States, or any portion thereof, when he shall determine that such Quarantine is necessary to prevent the spread of a dangerous plant disease or insect infestation, new to or not theretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United States; and the Public notice.Secretary of Agriculture is directed to give notice of the establishment of such quarantine to common carriers doing business in or through such quarantined area, and shall publish in such newspapers in the quarantined area as he shall select notice of the establishment of quarantine.
That no person shall ship or offer for shipment to any Shipments of specified products from quarantined localities forbidden.common carrier, nor shall any common carrier receive for transportation or transport, nor shall any person carry or transport from any quarantined State or Territory or District of the United States, or from any quarantined portion thereof, into or through any other State or Territory or District, any class of nursery stock or any other class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other” plant products, or any class of stone or quarry products, or any other article of Stone, etc., carriers included.any character whatsoever, capable of carrying any dangerous plant disease or insect infestation, specified in the notice of quarantine except as hereinafter provided.
That it shall be unlawful to move, or Movement of forbidden nursery stock, etc., subject to conditions.allow to be moved, any class of nursery stock or any other class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products, or any class of stone or quarry products or any other article of any character whatsoever, capable of carrying any dangerous plant disease or insect infestation, specified in the notice of quarantine Hereinbefore provided, and regardless of the use for which the same is intended, from any quarantined State or Territory or District of the United States or quarantined portion thereof, into or through any other State or Territory or District, in manner or method or under conditions other than those prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
That it Rules, etc., for inspection, shipment, etc., to be issued.shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture, when the public interests will permit, to make and promulgate rules and regulations which shall permit and govern the inspection, disinfection, certification, and method and manner of delivery and shipment of the class of nursery stock or of any other class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products, or any class of stone or quarry products, or any other article of any character whatsoever, capable of carrying any dangerous plant disease or insect infestation, specified in the notice of quarantine hereinbefore provided, and regardless No exceptions.of the use for which the same is intended, from a quarantined State or Territory or District of the United States, or quarantined portion thereof, into or through any other State or Territory or 1166 Public notice.District; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall give notice of such rules and regulations as hereinbefore provided in this section for the *Proviso.* Hearings, etc., to determine quarantined districts.notice of the establishment of quarantine: *Provided,* That before the Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate his determination that it is necessary to quarantine any State, Territory, or District of the United States, or portion thereof, under the authority given in this section, he shall, after due notice to interested parties, give a public hearing under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, at which hearing any interested party may appear and be heard, either in person or by attorney.”" Interchangeable appropriations.
And not to exceed ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of any bureau, division, or office herein provided for shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the objects included within the general expenses or such bureau, division, or office, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emergency, and then only upon the written order of the Secretary of Agriculture.
Total, Department of Agriculture, for routine and ordinary work, $24,679,113. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. Reclamation projects. Aiding agricultural development of. Demonstrations on reclamation protects: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and aid in the agricultural development of the Government reclamation projects; to assist, through demonstrations, advice, and in other ways, settlers on the projects; and for the employment of persons and means necessary in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $50,000.
Conservation of navigable waters, etc. Cooperation with States for fire protection, etc. Vol. 36, p. 961. Cooperative fire protection of forested watersheds of navigable streams: For cooperation with any State or group of States in the protection from fire of the forested watersheds of navigable streams under the provisions of section two of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers,” $100,000.
Cane-sugar and cotton districts. Cooperative experiments for live stock production in. Experiments and demonstrations in live-stock production in the cane-sugar and cotton districts of the United States: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the authorities of the States concerned, or with individuals, to make such investigations and demonstrations as may be necessary in connection with the development of live-stock production in the cane-sugar Erection of buildings, etc.and cotton districts of the United States, including the erection of barns and other necessary buildings, and the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $60,000.
Dairying and live stock. Experiments in production in western irrigated lands, etc. Experiments in dairying and live-stock production in semi-arid and irrigated districts of the western United States: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct investigations and experiments in problems connected with the establishment of dairying and meat-production enterprises on the semiarid and irrigated lands Erection of buildings, etc.of the western United States, including the purchase of live-stock, the erection of barns and other necessary buildings, and the employment of necessary persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $40,000;
Motor vehicles, etc. Allowance for, from lump sum appropriations. That not to exceed $75,000 of the lump-sum appropriations herein made for the Department of Agriculture shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles and motor boats necessary in the conduct of the field work of the Department of 1167Agriculture outside the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That not to *Provisos.* Purchases limited.exceed $13,000 of this amount shall be expended for the purchase of such vehicles and boats, and that such vehicles and boats shall be used only for official service outside the District of Columbia, but this shall not prevent the continued use for official service of motor trucks in the District of Columbia: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of Report of expenses for.Agriculture shall, on the first day of each regular session of Congress, make a report to Congress showing the amount expended under the provisions of this paragraph during the preceding fiscal year.
That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may exchange motor-propelled Exchanges, etc., allowed.and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles in part payment for new motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles authorized to be purchased by him, to be used for the same Detailed report of, to Congress.purposes as those proposed to be exchanged, and shall, on the first day of each regular session of Congress, make a report to Congress for the fiscal year last closed showing, as to each exchange hereunder, the make of the vehicle, the period of its use, the allowance therefor, and the vehicle, make thereof, and price, including exchange value, paid, or to be paid, for each vehicle procured through such exchange.
Eradication of foot-and-mouth and other contagious diseases of animals: Contagious diseases of animals. Emergency appropriations for arresting, etc.In case of an emergency arising out of the existence of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious disease of animals which, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, threatens the live-stock industry of the country, he may expend in the city of Washington or elsewhere, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000,000, which sum is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as he determines to be necessary, in the arrest and eradication of any such disease, including the payment of claims Paying claims for animals destroyed, etc.growing out of past and future purchases and destruction, in cooperation with the States, of animals affected by or exposed to, or of materials contaminated by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found and irrespective of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations: *Provided,* That the payment for animals hereafter *Provisos.* Appraisement of values.purchased may be made on appraisement based on the meat, daily, or breeding value, but in case of appraisement based on breeding value no appraisement of any animal shall exceed three times its meat or dairy value, and except in case of an extraordinary emergency, to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, the payment by the United States Government for any animal shall not exceed one-half of any such appraisements: *Provided further,* That so much Unexpended balances reappropriated.of the appropriation of $2,500,000 made by the agricultural appropriation Vol. 38, p. 1115.*Ante,* p. 492.Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious disease of animals, as remains unexpended at the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the objects mentioned in said appropriation Act, including necessary investigations to determine whether said diseases have been completely eradicated in districts where they previously existed.
Total carried by this bill for the Department of Agriculture, $25,929,113. That to provide, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, Appropriation for increasing pay of employees under Department receiving not more than $1,800 a year.for all persons employed under the Department of Agriculture, including on the lump-sum rolls only those persons who are carried thereon at the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, increased compensation at the rate of ten 1168per centum per annum to such employees who receive salaries or wages from such department at a rate per annum less than $1,200, and increased compensation at a rate of five per centum per annum to such employees who receive salaries or wages from such department at a rate of not more than $1,800 per annum and not less than $1,200 per annum, so much as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provisos.* Application limited.*Provided,* That the increased compensation provided by this section shall not apply to persons, whose duties require only a portion of their time, except charwomen, or whoso services are needed for brief periods at intervals, or to any persons who receive a part of their salaries or wages from any outside sources under cooperative Reports to be made.arrangements with the Department of Agriculture: *Provided further,* That detailed reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next session showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation provided for herein.
International Farm Congress. Foreign nations invited to attend. The President is hereby authorized to extend invitations to other nations to appoint delegates or representatives to the International Farm Congress, to be held at Peoria, Illinois, in connection with the International Soil-Products Exposition, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Proviso.* No appropriation.*Provided,* That no appropriation shall be granted or used for the expenses of delegates.
Approved, March 4, 1917.