Chapter 26. Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920
22,157 words·~101 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-41/chapter-26-1014218·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 26.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. July 24, 1919. [[H. R. 7413](/us/bill/66/hr/7413).] [[Public, No. 22](/us/pl/66/22).] *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.*Post,* p. 272.and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 235of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. office of the secretary. Secretary’s Office. Salaries, Office of the Secretary of Agriculture: Secretary Pay of Secretary, Assistants, Solicitor, etc.of Agriculture, $12,000; two Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture, at $5,000 each; 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 officer in charge of supplies, $2,000; one assistant, $2,000; one inspector, $3,000; one inspector, $2,250; one Inspectors, law clerks, etc.attorney, $3,500; two attorneys, at $3,250 each; two law clerks, at $3,000 each; two law clerks, at $2,750 each; 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; two law clerks, at $1,600 each; one assistant editor, $2,000; four assistant editors, at $1,800 each; one assistant editor, $1,600; one expert on exhibits, $3,000; one assistant in exhibits, $2,000; one telegraph and telephone operator, $1,600; one assistant chief clerk and captain of Clerks, messengers, etc.the watch, $1,800; five clerks, class four; fourteen clerks, class three; twenty-one clerks, class two; twenty-seven clerks, class one; one auditor, $2,000; one accountant and bookkeeper, $2,000; one clerk, $1,440; two clerks, at $1,100 each; one clerk, $1,020; seven clerks, at $1,000 each; eighteen clerks, at $900 each; two clerks, at $840 each; fourteen messengers or laborers, at $840 each; twelve messengers or laborers, at $720 each; one messenger or laborer, $660; one mechanical Mechanics, etc.superintendent, $2,500; one mechanical assistant, $1,800; one mechanical assistant, $1,400; one mechanical assistant, $1,380; one engineer, $1,400; one electrical engineer and draftsman, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; one fireman, $840; eight firemen, at $720 each; one chief elevator conductor, $840; sixteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; three elevator conductors, at $600 each; one superintendent of shops, $1,400; one cabinet shop foreman, $1,200; five 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 instrument maker, $1,200; one electrician, $1,100; two electrical wiremen, at $1,100 each; one electrician or wireman, $1,000; one electrical wireman, $900; one electrician’s helper, $840; three electrician’s helpers, at $720 each; one painter, $1,020; one painter, $1,000; five painters, at $900 each; five plumbers or steamfitters, at $ 1,020 each; two plumber’s helpers, at $840 each; two plumber’s helpers, at $720 each; one blacksmith, $900; one elevator machinist, $900; one tinner or sheet metal worker, $1,100; one tinner’s helper, $720; one lieutenant of Watchmen, laborers, etc.the watch, $1,000; two lieutenants of the watch, at $960 each; seventy-three watchmen, at $720 each; four mechanics, at $1,200 each; one mechanic, $1,000; one skilled laborer, $1,000; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; one skilled laborer, $900; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; two skilled laborers, at $720 each; one janitor, $900; fourteen messengers or laborers, at $600 each; one carriage driver, $600; eight messenger boys, at $600 each; twenty-four messenger boys, at $480 each; one messenger boy, $360; one charwoman, $540; 236three charwomen, at $480 each; one charwoman, $360; fifteen charwomen, at $240 each; for extra labor and emergency employments, $20,000; in all, $500,520.
Farm Management Office.Salaries. Salaries, Office of Farm Management: One chief of office, $5,000; one assistant to the chief, $2,520; one executive assistant, $2,250; two clerks, class four; two clerks, class three; three clerks, class two; eight clerks, class one; three clerks, at $1,100 each; four clerks, at $1,080 each; one clerk or draftsman, $1,020; ten clerks, at $1,000 each; eighteen clerks, at $900 each; six clerks or map tracers, at $840 each; one messenger or laborer, $720; one messenger boy, $660; three messenger boys, at $480 each; one charwoman, $480; five charwomen, at $240 each; one library assistant, $1,440; one library assistant, $900; one photographer, $1,400; one cartographer, $1,500; one draftsman, $1,440; one draftsman, $1,200; two draftsmen, at $900 each; in all, $84,430.
General expenses. General Expenses, Office of Farm Management: For the employment 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: Farm management and practice.*Proviso.*Cost of production. To investigate and encourage the adoption of improved methods of farm management and farm practice, $218,160: *Provided,* That of this amount $23,873 may be used in ascertaining the cost of production of the principal staple agricultural products.
Total for Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $803,110. weather bureau. Weather Bureau.Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Salaries, Weather Bureau: Ono 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 Printers, mechanics, etc.clerks, class one; twenty-six clerks, at $1,000 each; ten 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 feeders, at $720 each; one instrument maker, $1,440; three instrument makers at $1,300 each; one instrument maker, $1,260; one skilled mechanic, $1,300; three skilled mechanics, at $1,200 each; five skilled mechanics, at $1,000 each; one skilled mechanic, $840; six skilled artisans, at $840 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 repairman, $960; one gardener, $1,000; four Messengers etc.repairmen, at $840 each; six repairmen, at $720 each; four watchmen, at $720 each; twenty-eight messengers or laborers, at $720 each; six messengers or laborers, at $660 each; twenty-two messengers or laborers, at $600 each; eleven messenger boys, at $600 each; ninety-nine messenger boys, at $480 each; one charwoman, $360; three charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $342,890.
General expenses.Classification. 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 1, 1890, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, for the employment of professors of meteorology, district 237forecasters, 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 measuring of the flow of rivers and the issuing of river forecasts and warnings; for observations and reports relating to crops and for other necessary observations and reports, including cooperation with other Cooperation with other bureaus, etc.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 Expenses in Washington.collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, volcanology, evaporation, and aerology, $109,250; 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 *Provisos.*Limitation on work.Weather Bureau that, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said bureau: *And provided, further,* That the proviso contained in section 11 of the Act making appropriations for General printing restrictions not applicable.Vol. 40, p. 1270.the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not prohibit the printing in the printing office of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington of the maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications herein authorized;
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, volcanology, evaporation, and aerology, $1,304,230, including not to exceed $672,500 for salaries, $129,040 for special observations and reports, and $295,750 for telegraphing and telephoning; For official traveling expenses, $26,000;
Traveling expenses. For the establishment and maintenance by the Weather Bureau of Aerological stations.Vol. 40, p. 43.additional aerological stations, for observing, measuring, and investigating atmospheric phenomena in the aid of aeronautics, including salaries, travel, and other expenses in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $85,040; In all, for general expenses, $1,537,320. Total for Weather Bureau, $1,880,210. 238 bureau of animal industry. Animal Industry Bureau.Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.
Salaries, Bureau of Animal Industry: One chief of bureau, $5,000; one chief clerk, $2,500; one editor and compiler, $2,250; one executive assistant, $2,500; three executive clerks, at $2,000 each; seven clerks, class four; one clerk, $1,680; fourteen clerks, class three; three clerks, at $1,500 each; thirty-four clerks, class two; two clerks, at $1,380 each; three clerks, at $1,320 each; one clerk, $1,300; two clerks, at $1,260 each; one hundred and twenty-two clerks, class one; four clerks, at $1,100 each; six clerks, at $1,080 each; eleven clerks, at $1,020 each; sixty-five clerks, at $1,000 each; fourteen clerks, at $960 each; fifty-three 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 mechanician, $1,440; one carpenter, $1,140; two carpenters, at $1,000 each; two messengers and custodians, at $1,200 each; one quarantine assistant, $900; two skilled laborers, at $1,000 each; ten skilled laborers, at $900 each; one painter, $900; two laborers, at $900 each; nine messengers or laborers, at $840 each; three laborers, at $780 each; twenty-nine messengers or laborers, at $720 each; four laborers, at $660 each; twenty-four laborers, at $600 each; thirty-two laborers, at $540 each; thirty laborers, at $480 each; one messenger boy, $660; three messenger boys, at $600 each; sixteen messenger boys, at $480 each; eight messenger boys, at $360 each; one charwoman, $600; two charwomen, at $540 each; sixteen charwomen, at $480 each; five charwomen at $360 each; two charwomen at $300 each; seven charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $553,150.
General expenses.Vol. 23, p. 31.Vol. 26, p. 833. General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry: For carrying out provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1884, establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1891, providing for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and for Vol. 26, p. 414.other purposes; the Act approved August 30, 1890, providing for the importation of animals into the United States, and for other purposes;
Vol. 32, p. 193.and the provisions of the Act of May 9, 1902, 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 Vol. 32, p. 791.Act approved February 2, 1903, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes; Vol. 33, p. 1264.Cattle quarantine.and also the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1905, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out Vol. 34, p. 607.Twenty-eight hour law.Vol. 37, p. 832.Animal viruses, etc.the provisions of the Act of June 29, 1906, entitled “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 4, 1913, 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 Collecting information, etc.intended for 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 reports on animal industry; to employ and pay from the appropriation herein made as many persons in the city of Washington Tuberculin, serums, etc., tests.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 239of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem best; to purchase Purchase, destruction, etc., of diseased animals.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:
For inspection and quarantine work, including all necessary Inspection and quarantine work.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 mallein testing of animals, $525,000;
For investigating the disease of tuberculosis of animals, for its Tuberculosis of animals.Investigating for control, eradication, etc., of.control and eradication, for the tuberculin testing of animals, and for researches concerning the cause of the disease, its modes of spread, and methods of treatment and prevention, including demonstrations, the formation of organizations, and such other means as may be necessary, either independently or in cooperation with farmers, associations, State, Territory, or county authorities, $1,500,000, of which $500,000 shall be set aside for administrative Application of fund.and operating expenses and $1,000,000 for the payment of indemnities: *Provided, however,* That in carrying out the purpose of this *Provisos.*Reimbursing owners for cattle destroyed, etc.appropriation, if in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, it shall be necessary to destroy tuberculous animals and to compensate owners for loss thereof, he may, in his discretion, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, expend in the city of Washington or elsewhere out of the moneys of this appropriation, such sums as he shall determine to be necessary, within the limitations above provided, for the reimbursement of owners of animals so destroyed, in cooperation with such States, Territories, counties, or municipalities, as shall by law or by suitable action in keeping with its authority in the matter, and by rules and regulations adopted and enforced in pursuance thereof, provide inspection of tuberculous animals and for compensation to owners of animals so destroyed, but no part of the money hereby appropriated shall Cooperation of States, etc., required.be used in compensating owners of such animals except in cooperation with and supplementary to payments to be made by State, Territory, county, or municipality where condemnation of such animals shall take place; nor shall any payment be made hereunder Restriction on payments.as compensation for or on account of any such animal destroyed if at the time of inspection or test of such animal or at the time of condemnation thereof, it shall belong to or be upon the premises of any person, firm, or corporation, to which it has been sold, shipped, or delivered for the purpose of being slaughtered: *Provided further,* That out of the money hereby appropriated, no payment as compensation for any tuberculous animal destroyed shall exceed one-third of the difference between the appraised value of such animal and the value of the salvage thereof; that no payment hereunder shall exceed the amount paid or to be paid by the State, Territory, county, or municipality, where the animal shall be condemned; and that in no case shall any payment hereunder be more than $25 for any grade animal or more than $50 for any pure-bred animal, and no payment shall be made unless the owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations: *And provided further,* That the Shipping for immediate slaughter of animals reacting to test.Act approved May 29, 1884 (Twenty-third Statutes at Large, page 31), be, and the same is hereby, amended to permit cattle which have reacted to the tuberculin test to be shipped, transported, or moved from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to 240any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, for immediate slaughter, in accordance with such rules and regulations as Reshipping of breeding, etc., animals to owners.shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture: *And provided further,* That the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, permit cattle which have been shipped for breeding or feeding purposes from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to another State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, and which have reacted to the tuberculin test subsequent to such shipment, to be reshipped in interstate commerce to the original owner;
Southern cattle ticks eradication.Dairy, etc., demonstrations. For all necessary expenses for the eradication of southern cattle ticks, $741,980, of which sum $50,000 may be used for live stock and dairy demonstration work, in cooperation with the States *Proviso.*Purchase of materials, etc., limited.Relations Service, and of this amount no part shall be used in the purchase of animals: *Provided, however,* That no part of 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 of this appropriation be used in the purchase of materials or mixtures for use in dipping vats except in experimental or demonstration work carried on by the officials or agents of the Bureau of Animal Industry;
Dairy industry. For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in dairy industry, cooperative investigations of the dairy industry in the various States, inspection of renovated-butter factories and markets, $350,370; Animal husbandry.Feeding, breeding, etc., experiments. For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments in 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, $327,680: *Provisos.*Horses for military purposes.Poultry.*Provided,* That of the sum thus appropriated $36,940 may be used for experiments in the breeding and maintenance of horses for military purposes: *Provided further,* That of the sum thus appropriated $58,640 Sheep experiment station, Idaho.may be used for experiments in poultry feeding and breeding: *Provided further,* That of the sum thus appropriated $8,000 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;
Animal diseases investigations. For all necessary expenses for scientific investigations in diseases of 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, serums, antitoxins, and analogous *Proviso.*Contagious abortion of animals.products, $124,560: *Provided,* That of said sum $49,400 may be used for researches concerning the cause, modes of spread, and methods of treatment and prevention of the disease of contagious abortion of animals;
Hog cholera.Investigating, demonstrations, etc. For investigating the disease of hog cholera, and for its control or 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 *Provisos.*Regulating trade in Viruses, etc.Vol. 37, p. 832.or county authorities, $641,045: *Provided,* That of said sum $163,560 shall be available for expenditure in carrying out the provisions of the act approved March 4, 1913, regulating the preparation, sale, barter, 241exchange, 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 said sum $30,620 shall be Pathological researches.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.eradication of dourine, $88,800; For general administrative work, including traveling expenses and Administrative work.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, $4,326,121. Meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry:
For additional Meat inspection.Additional expenses.Vol. 34, pp. 674, 1260.expenses in carrying out the provisions of the meat-inspection Act of June 30, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 674), as amended by the Act of March 4, 1907 (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 1256), there is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, Equine meat inspection.1920, $903,960, of which sum $100,000 may be used for the inspection of equine meat in the manner provided in said Act, as amended.
And, hereafter, no person, firm, or corporation or officer, agent, or Labeling, etc., required.employee thereof shall transport or offer for transportation, and no carrier of interstate or foreign commerce, shall transport or receive for transportation from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia or to any place under the jurisdiction of the United States or to any foreign country any of such meat or food products thereof unless plainly and conspicuously labeled, marked, branded or tagged “Horse-meat” or “Horse-meat Product” as the case may be, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of General provisions, etc., applicable.Agriculture.
All the penalties, terms and provisions in said Act, as amended, except the exemption therein applying to animals slaughtered by any farmer on a farm, to retail butchers and retail dealers in meat food products supplying their customers are hereby made applicable to horses, their carcasses, parts of carcasses and meat food products thereof, and the establishments and other places where such animals are slaughtered or the meat or meat food products thereof are prepared or packed for the interstate or foreign commerce, and to all persons, firms, corporations and officers, agents and employees thereof who slaughter such animals or prepare or handle such meat or meat food products for interstate or foreign commerce.
That, hereafter, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, in his Employees allowed for overtime work.discretion, to pay employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry employed in establishments subject to the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act of June 30, 1906, for all overtime work performed at such establishments, at such rates as he may determine, and to accept from such establishments wherein such overtime work is performed reimbursement for any sums paid out by him for such overtime work.
Total for Bureau of Animal Industry, $5,783,231. bureau of plant industry. Plant Industry Bureau. Salaries, Bureau of Plant Industry: One physiologist and Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.pathologist, who shall be chief of bureau, $5,000; one assistant to the chief, $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 executive clerk, $2,000; three 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; nine clerks, class four; fourteen clerks, class three; four clerks, at $1,500 each; twenty-five clerks, 242class two; three clerks, at $1,320 each; seventy-three clerks, class one; two clerks or draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,100 each; four clerks, at $1,080 each; seven clerks, at $1,020 each; thirty clerks, at $1,000 each; forty-three clerks, at $900 each; one clerk or draftsman, $900; eleven clerks, at $840 each; one laborer, $780; forty-two messengers or laborers, at $720 each; eight messengers or laborers, at $660 each; sixteen messengers or laborers, at $600 each; one artist, $1,620; one artist, $900; one clerk or artist, $1,400; two Laboratory aids, etc.clerks or artists, at $1,200 each; one photographer, $1,200; one photographer, $840; 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; three laboratory aids, clerks, or skilled laborers, at $1,020 each; two laboratory aids, at $960 each; one laboratory aid, $900; four laboratory aids, at $840 Gardeners, etc.each; seven laboratory aids, at $720 each; one laboratory apprentice, $720; one map tracer or laboratory aid, $900; 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, $1,100; 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, $1,200; one carpenter, $900; one painter, $900; one teamster, $840; one teamster, $600; twenty-one laborers, at $540 each; twenty-nine messengers or laborers, at $480 each; three messenger boys, at $660 each; fourteen messenger boys, at $600 each; ten messenger boys, at $480 each; five messenger boys, at $420 each; sixteen messenger boys, at $360 each; four charwomen, at $480 each; twenty-one charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $491,280.
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 *Proviso.*Limit for buildings.branches of the department, the State experiment stations, and practical farmers, and for the erection of necessary farm 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;
Investigators, etc.for rent outside of the District of Columbia; and for the 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: Plant diseases, etc. For investigations of plant diseases and pathological collections, including the maintenance of a plant-disease survey, $62,020;
Orchard, etc., fruits.*Proviso.*Pecans. For the investigation of diseases of orchard and other fruits, $80,935: *Provided,* That $8,000 of said amount shall be available for the investigation of diseases of the pecan; Citrus canker. For conducting such investigations of the nature and means of communication of the disease of citrus trees, known as citrus canker, and for applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, Cooperative expenditures.including the payment of such expenses and the employment of such persons and means, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations of growers, or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $196,320, and, in the discretion of the Secretary of Local contributions required.Agriculture, no expenditures shall be made for these purposes until a sum or sums at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by State, county, or local 243authorities, or by individuals or organizations for the accomplishment of such purposes: *Provided,* That no part of the money herein appropriated *Proviso.*No pay for trees, etc., destroyed.shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property destroyed;
For the investigation of diseases of forest and ornamental trees and Trees, shrubs, etc.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, $82,315; For applying such methods of eradication or control of the white-pine White-pine blister rust.Eradication and control methods.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 and elsewhere, in cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $220,728, and in the discretion of the Local contributions.Secretary of Agriculture no expenditures shall be made for these purposes 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 purposes: *Provided,* That no part of the money *Proviso.*No pay for trees, etc., destroyed.herein 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, forage crops, Cotton, crops, etc., diseases.drug and related plants, $87,800; For investigating the physiology of crop plants and for testing and Physiology of crop plants.breeding varieties thereof, $48,460; For soil-bacteriology and plant-nutrition investigations, including Soil bacteriology, etc.the testing of samples, procured in the open market, of cultures for inoculating legumes, and if any such samples are found to be impure, nonviable, or misbranded, the results of the tests may be published, Publishing tests.together with the names of the manufacturers and of the persons by whom the cultures were offered for sale, $39,060;
For soil-fertility investigations into organic causes of infertility and Soil fertility.remedial measures, maintenance of productivity, properties and composition of soil humus, and the transformation and formation of soil humus by soil organisms, $35,060; 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, breeding, and selection, and for determining the feasibility of increasing the production of hard fibers outside of the continental United States, $104,410: *Provided,* That the limitation in this Act as to the cost of *Provisos.*Buildings.*Ante,* p. 242.Cottonseed interbreeding.New Zealand flax for binder twine.farm buildings be increased to $2,500 in so far as it applies to this paragraph: *Provided further,* That not less than $7,500 of this sum may be used for experiments in cottonseed interbreeding: *And provided further,* That of this amount $3,000 may be used for experiments in the production of New Zealand flax in the United States and for its utilization in the manufacture of binder twine;
For the investigation, testing, and improvement of plants yielding Drug plants, etc.drugs, spices, poisons, oils, and related products and by-products, and for general physiological and fermentation investigations, $58,820; For crop technological investigations, including the study of plant-infesting Crop technology; nematodes.nematodes, $24,940; For biophysical investigations in connection with the various lines of work herein authorized, $32,500; Biophysical investigations.
For studying and testing commercial seeds, including the testing of Commercial seeds, grasses, etc.Testing samples.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 244adulterated or misbranded the results of the tests shall be published, together with the names of the persons by whom the seeds were Preventing adulterated seed and grain admission.Vol. 37, p. 506.offered for sale, and for carrying out the provisions of the act approved August 24, 1912, 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 506), $36,680;
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.$452,505: *Provided,* That $40,000 shall be set aside for the study of corn improvement and methods of corn production: *Provided also,* Rust diseases.That $100,000 shall be set aside for the investigation and control of the diseases of wheat, oats, and barley known as black rust and stripe Destroying infecting vegetation.rust: *Provided also,* That $150,000 shall be set aside for the location of and destruction of the barberry bushes and other vegetation from Corn root, etc., diseases.which such rust spores originate: *Provided also,* That $25,000 shall be set aside for the investigation of corn root and stalk diseases and for the inauguration of such control measures as may be found necessary;
Soil and seed infecting diseases.Eradication, etc. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the existence in the United States of flag smut of wheat, take-all, helminthosporium, and other destructive soil and seed infecting diseases of wheat and of other cereals, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, Cooperation with States, etc.$50,000, to be used in cooperation with the Plant Disease Survey, investigation, and control authorities of the several States to prevent the further spread of and to eradicate or control these diseases;
Tobacco production, etc. For the investigation and improvement of tobacco and the methods of tobacco production and handling, $32,000; Arid land crops. For the breeding and physiological study of alkali-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.*American strains of sugar beet seed, etc.required to insure a stable agriculture, $94,115: *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 by products, etc.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, culture, 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, $22,200; Dry land, etc., crop methods. For the investigation and improvement of methods of crop production under subhumid, semiarid, or dry-land conditions, $159,000: *Proviso.*Free tree distribution limited.*Provided,* 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-belt trees in the Northern Great Plains area, except for experimental or demonstration purposes in the States of North and South Dakota west of the one hundredth meridian, and in Montana and Wyoming east of the five-thousand-foot contour line;
Utilizing western reclaimed lands, etc. For investigations in connection with western irrigation agriculture, the utilization of lands reclaimed under the Reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $73,580; 245 For the investigation, improvement, encouragement, and determination Edible nuts.Growing, shipping, etc.of the adaptability to different soils and climatic conditions of pecans, almonds, Persian walnuts, black walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts, chestnuts, filberts, and other nuts, and for methods of growing, harvesting, packing, shipping, storing, and utilizing the same, $20,000;
For the investigation and improvement of fruits, and the method Fruits.Growing, shipping, etc.of fruit growing, harvesting, and, in cooperation with the Bureau of Markets, studies of the behavior of fruits during the processes of marketing and while in commercial storage, $83,200: *Provided,* That $20,000 of said amount may be used for investigating and developing new grape industries and methods of utilizing grapes heretofore used for the production of alcoholic beverages; To cultivate and care for the gardens and grounds of the Department Experimental gardens and grounds, District of Columbia.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, $11,690;
For horticultural investigations, including the study of producing Horticultural investigations, etc.Marketing vegetables, etc.and harvesting truck and related crops, including potatoes, and, in cooperation with the Bureau of Markets, studies of the behavior of vegetables while in the processes of marketing and in commercial storage, and the study of landscape and vegetable gardening, floriculture, and related subjects, $73,340; For continuing the necessary improvements to establish and maintain Arlington, Va., experimental farm.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 18, 1900, $21,900: *Proviso.*Buildings.*Ante* p. 242.*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 Foreign seed and plant introduction.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, $132,700, of which sum the Secretary of Agriculture is Plant inspection and detention station.Land, buildings, etc., for.authorized to expend $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purchase of not to exceed fifty acres of suitable land near the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and the erection thereon of all necessary buildings and equipment, and for the establishment of a plant-inspection and detention station: *Provided,* That not to *Provisos.*Land limitation.Buildings.*Ante,* p. 242.exceed $10,000 of this sum shall be expended for the purchase of the land: *Provided further,* That the limitation in this Act as to cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph;
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 Weed eradication.*Proviso.*Purchase and distribution.investigations to determine the most effective methods of eradicating weeds, $139,780: *Provided,* That of this amount not to exceed $57,800 may be used for the purchase and distribution of such new and rare seeds;
For general administrative expenses connected with the above-mentioned Administrative expenses.lines of investigation, including the office of the chief of bureau, the assistant chief of bureau, the officers in charge of publications, records, supplies, and property, and for miscellaneous expenses incident thereto, $29,040; In all, for general expenses, $2,529,378. 246 Seeds, etc.Purchase, etc., for congressional distribution. Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds: For purchase, propagation, 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, postal 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, Seeds adapted to localities.in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $358,980.
And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to expend the said sum, as nearly as practicable, in the purchase, testing, and distribution of such valuable seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, the best he can obtain at public or private sale, and such as shall be suitable for the respective localities to which the same are to be apportioned, and in which same are to be distributed as hereinafter stated, and such seeds so purchased shall include a variety of vegetable and *Provisos.*Contracts for packets, mailing, etc.flower seeds suitable for planting and culture in the various sections of 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 Congressional distribution.protect the interests of the United States.
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 Contents to be marked on wrapper, selection, etc.of such weight as the Secretary of Agriculture and the Postmaster General may jointly determine: *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 Early distribution for southern section.same so that each Member may have seeds of equal value, as near as may be, and the best adapted to the locality he represents: *Provided also,* That the seeds allotted to Senators and Representatives for distribution in the districts embraced within the twenty-fifth and Distribution of uncalled for allotments.thirty-fourth parallels of latitude shall be ready for delivery not later than the 10th day of January: *Provided also,* That any portion of the allotments to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress remaining uncalled for on the 1st 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 Report of purchases, etc.in Congress and who have not before during the same season been supplied by the departments: *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 Diversion of appropriation forbidden.from sending seeds to those who apply for the same.
And the amount herein appropriated shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose 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, 83,379,638. 247 forest service. Forest Service. Salaries, Forest Service: One forester, who shall be chief of bureau, $5,000; one chief of Pay of forester, supervisors, etc.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, $3,040; one forest supervisor, $2,700; eight forest supervisors, at $2,400 each; twenty forest supervisors, at $2,200 each; forty-nine forest supervisors, 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 supervisors, at $1,600 each; thirty-one deputy forest supervisors, at $1,500 each; eighteen deputy forest supervisors, at $1,400 each; eleven forest Rangers, etc.rangers, at $1,500 each; twenty-three forest rangers, at $1,400 each; seventy-eight forest rangers, at $1,300 each; two hundred and eighty-eight forest rangers, at $1,200 each; six hundred and thirty forest rangers, at $1,100 each; one hundred forest guards, at $1,100 each, for periods not exceeding six months in the aggregate; forty forest guards, at $ 1,100 each, for periods not exceeding three months in the aggregate; one clerk, $2,100; four clerks, at $2,000 each; nineteen clerks, at $1,800 Clerks, etc.each; twenty-one clerks, at $1,600 each; nine clerks, at $1,500 each; twenty-three clerks, at $1,400 each; nine clerks, at $1,300 each; one hundred and thirty-eight clerks, at $1,200 each; ninety-five clerks, at $1,100 each; fifty-four clerks, at $1,020 each; thirty clerks, at $960 each; one hundred and twenty-two clerks, at $900 each; two clerks, at $840 each; one clerk, $600; one clerk or proof reader, $1,400; one clerk or translator, $1,400; one compiler, $1,800; one draftsman, Draftsmen, etc.$2,000; two draftsmen or surveyors, at $1,800 each; three draftsmen, at $1,600 each; one clerk or compositor, $1,600; three draftsmen or surveyors, at $1,600 each; sixteen draftsmen or surveyors, at $1,500 each; six 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; sixteen 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 or photographer, $1,200; one lithographer’s helper, $780; one blue-printer, $900; one blue-printer, $720; two telephone operators, at $600 each; one machinist, $1,260;
Mechanics, etc.two carpenters, at $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, at $840 each; two messengers or laborers, at Watchmen, laborers, etc.$960 each; three messengers or laborers, at $900 each; four messengers or laborers, at $840 each; three messengers or laborers, at $780 each; five messengers or laborers, at $720 each; six messengers or laborers, at $660 each; five messenger boys, at $600 each; two messenger boys, at $540 each; three messenger boys, at $480 each; three messenger boys, at $420 each; thirteen messenger boys, at $360 each; one charwoman, $540; one charwoman, $480; one charwoman, $300; eleven charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $2,485,660.
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 Tests, etc., 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 inves-248tigate 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 *Proviso.*Cost of buildings.Protection of national forests.trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: *Provided,* That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed $800; to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, and improve the national forests, including the payment of rewards under regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture for information leading to the arrest and conviction for violation of the laws and regulations relating to fires in or near national forests, or for the unlawful taking of, or Sale of timber.injury to, Government property; to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the national forests; and the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, permit timber and other forest products cut or removed from the national forests to be exported from the Care of fish and game.State or Territory in which said forests are respectively situated; to transport and care for fish and game supplied to stock the national forests or the waters 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 Supplies, etc.investigations made by the Forest Service; to purchase necessary supplies, apparatus, office fixtures, law books, 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, laborers, 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, washing 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:
Rent.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, Calif. 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, $5,437; 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, $17,189; Blackfeet, Mont. Blackfeet National Forest, Montana, $19,888;
Black Hills, S. Dak. and Wyo. Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming, $12,668; Boise, Idaho. Boise National Forest, Idaho, $5,247; Bridger, Wyo. Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, $3,159; Cabinet, Mont. Cabinet National Forest, Montana, $16,806; Cache, Utah and Idaho. Cache National Forest, Utah and Idaho, $2,207; California, Calif. 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, $7,938; Clearwater, Idaho. Clearwater National Forest, Idaho, $38,201; Cleveland, Calif. Cleveland National Forest, California, $8,433; 249 Cochetopa National Forest, Colorado, $5,931; Cochetopa, Colo. Coconino National Forest, Arizona, $21,673;
Coconino, Ariz. Coeur d’Alene National Forest, Idaho, $53,290; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Colorado National Forest, Colorado, $7,459; Colorado, Colo. Columbia National Forest, Washington, $9,758; Columbia, Wash. Colville National Forest, Washington, $11,183; Colville, Wash. Coronado National Forest, Arizona and New Mexico, $11,050; Coronado, Ariz. and N. Mex. Crater National Forest, Oregon and California, $22,688; Crater, Oreg. and Calif. Crook National Forest, Arizona, $3,735; Crook, Ariz.
Custer National Forest, Montana, $2,830; Custer, Mont. Datil National Forest, New Mexico, $13,950; Datil, N. Mex. Deerlodge National Forest, Montana, $19,813; Deerlodge, Mont. Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, $10,175; Deschutes, Oreg. Dixie National Forest, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, $1,596; Dixie, Ariz. and Nev. Durango National Forest, Colorado, $4,964; Durango, Colo. Eldorado National Forest, California and Nevada, $10,238; Eldorado, Calif, and Nev. Fillmore National Forest, Utah, $4,987;
Fillmore, Utah. Fishlake National Forest, Utah, $2,320; Fishlake, Utah. Flathead National Forest, Montana, $51,826; Flathead, Mont. Florida National Forest, Florida, $4,927; Florida, Fla. Fremont National Forest, Oregon, $5,427; Fremont, Oreg. Gallatin National Forest, Montana, $4,810; Gallatin, Mont. Gila National Forest, New Mexico, $10,847; 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, $6,330; Humboldt, Nev. Idaho National Forest, Idaho, $18,385; Idaho, Idaho. Inyo National Forest, California and Nevada, $3,076; Inyo, Calif. and Nev. Jefferson National Forest, Montana, $8,430; Jefferson, Mont. Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, $2,708;
Kaibab, Ariz. Kaniksu National Forest, Idaho and Washington, $34,943; Kaniksu, Idaho and Wash. Klamath National Forest, California and Oregon, $20,249; Klamath, Calif. and Oreg. Kootenai National Forest, Montana, $26,102; Kootenai, Mont. La Sal National Forest, Utah and Colorado, $2,754; La Sal, Utah and Colo. Lassen National Forest, California, $14,181; Lassen, Calif. Leadville National Forest, Colorado, $5,524; Leadville, Colo. Lemhi National Forest, Idaho, $2,490; Lemhi, Idaho.
Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana, $10,626; Lewis and Clark, Mont. Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, $11,178; Lincoln, N. Mex. Lolo National Forest, Montana, $26,652; Lolo, Mont. Luquillo National Forest, Porto Rico, $1,700; Luquillo, P. R. Madison National Forest, Montana, $3,930; Madison, Mont. Malheur National Forest, Oregon, $6,091; Malheur, Oreg. Manti National Forest, Utah, $6,090; Manti, Utah. Manzano National Forest, New Mexico, $5,860; 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, $15,212; Missoula, Mont. Modoc National Forest, California, $7,388; Modoc, Calif. Mono National Forest, Nevada and California, $1,647; Mono, Nev. and Calif. Monterey National Forest, California, $3,547;
Monterey, Calif. Montezuma National Forest, Colorado, $4,670; Montezuma, Colo. Nebraska National Forest, Nebraska, $1,165; and to extend the Nebraska, Nebr.*Proviso.*Young trees to and land residents.work to Niobrara division thereof, $5,000: *Provided,* That from the nurseries on said forest the Secretary of Agriculture, under such rules 250and regulations as he may prescribe, may furnish young trees free, so far as they may be spared, to residents of the territory covered by Vol. 33, p. 547.“An act increasing the area of homesteads in a portion of Nebraska,” approved April 28, 1904, $6,165;
Nevada, Nev. Nevada National Forest, Nevada, $2,249; Nez Perce, Idaho. Nez Perce National Forest, Idaho, $25,690; Ochoco, Oreg. Ochoco National Forest, Oregon, $6,451; Okanogan, Wash. Okanogan National Forest, Washington, $11,464; Olympic, Wash. Olympic National Forest, Washington, $16,598; Oregon, Oreg. Oregon National Forest, Oregon, $20,409; Ozark, Ark. Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, $9,030; Payette, Idaho. Payette National Forest, Idaho, $8,537; Pend Oreille, Idaho. Pend Oreille National Forest, Idaho, $20,074;
Pike, Colo. Pike National Forest, Colorado, $13,373; Plumas, Calif. Plumas National Forest, California, $19,803; 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, $32,026; Salmon, Idaho. Salmon National Forest, Idaho, $6,177;
San Isabel, Colo. San Isabel National Forest, Colorado, $3,924; San Juan, Colo. San Juan National Forest, Colorado, $5,534; Santa Barbara, Calif. Santa Barbara National Forest, California, $9,774; Santa Fe, N. Mex. Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico, $17,040; Santiam, Oreg. Santiam National Forest, Oregon, $7,852; Sawtooth, Idaho. Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, $4,953; Selway, Idaho. Selway National Forest, Idaho, $47,367; Sequoia, Calif. Sequoia National Forest, California, $13,744;
Sevier, Utah. Sevier National Forest, Utah, $2,110; Shasta, Calif. Shasta National Forest, California, $17,425; Shoshone, Wyo. Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, $7,381; Sierra, Calif. Sierra National Forest, California, $15,750; Sioux, S. Dak. and Mont. Sioux National Forest, South Dakota and Montana, $2,640; Siskiyou, Oreg, and Calif. 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, $13,566; Sopris, Colo. Sopris National Forest, Colorado, $5,411; Stanislaus, Calif. Stanislaus National Forest, California, $14,697; Superior, Minn. Superior National Forest, Minnesota, $9,809; Tahoe, Calif. and Nev. Tanoe 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, $15,224; Tonto, Ariz. Tonto National Forest, Arizona, $7,685; Trinity, Calif. Trinity National Forest, California, $19,484; Tusayan, Ariz. Tusayan National Forest, Arizona, $12,904; Uintah, Utah. Uintah National Forest, Utah, $4,555; Umatilla, Oreg. Umatilla National Forest, Oregon, $6,562; Umpqua, Oreg. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon, $13,509; Uncompahgre, Colo. Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado, $6,690; Wallowa, Oreg. Wallowa National Forest, Oregon, $9,617;
Wasatch, Utah. Wasatch National Forest, Utah, $5,000; Washakie, Wyo. Washakie National Forest, Wyoming, $6,726; 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; 251 Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, $11,884; Wenatchee, Wash. White River National Forest, Colorado, $6,272; White River, Colo. Whitman National Forest, Oregon, $18,725;
Whitman, Oreg. Wichita National Forest, Oklahoma, S2,416; Wichita, Okla. Wyoming National Forest, Wyoming, $5,089; Wyoming, Wyo. Additional national forests created or to be created under section 11 Additional forests under Conservation Act.Vol. 36, p. 963.of the Act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 963), and lands under contract for purchase or for the acquisition of which condemnation proceedings have been instituted for the purposes of said Act, $76,850;
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, $47,800; In National Forest District Three, $55,200; In National Forest District Four, $49,500; In National Forest District Five, $69,740; In National Forest District Six, $60,800; In National Forest District Seven, $14,900;
In the District of Columbia, $122,850; In all, for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, and Total.general administration of the specified national forests, $2,069,201: *Provided,* That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes *Provisos.*Interchangeable expenses.shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture for the necessary expenditures for fire protection and other unforeseen exigencies: *Provided further,* That the amounts so interchanged Limit.shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated;
For the selection, classification, and segregation of lands within the Selecting lands for homestead entries, etc.boundaries of national forests that may be opened to homestead settlement and entry under the homestead laws applicable to the national forests; for the examination and appraisal of lands in effecting exchanges authorized by law; and for the survey and platting of Survey, etc., of agricultural lands.certain lands, chiefly valuable for agriculture, now listed or to be listed within the national forests, under the Act of June 11, 1906 Vol. 34, p. 233.Vol. 30, p. 1095.Vol. 37, p. 842.(Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 233), and the Act of March 3, 1899 (Thirtieth Statutes, page 1095), as provided by the Act of March 4, 1913, $107,000;
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 Investigating wood distillation, forest products, etc.preservative 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 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 demonstrations Cooperative commercial demonstrations.of improved methods or processes, in cooperation with individuals and companies, $173,260;
For experiments and investigations of range conditions within Range conditions and improvements.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; For the purchase of tree seed, cones, and nursery stock, for seeding Seeding, tree planting, etc.and tree planting within national forests, and for experiments and investigations necessary for such seeding and tree planting, $145,640: *Provided,* That of this sum the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized *Proviso.*252Land for nursery, Michigan Forest.to use so much as may be necessary, but not to exceed $200, to acquire by purchase land now used as a forest nursery site for the Michigan National Forest;
Management of forest lands, etc. 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; Appraising timber, for sale, 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, $80,000;
Collating results, etc. For other miscellaneous forest investigations, and for collating, digesting, recording, illustrating, and distributing the results of the experiments and investigations herein provided for, $31,280; 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 *Provisos.*Division of fences, driveways, etc.development of the national forests, $450,000: *Provided,* That not to 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, and the eradication of poisonous plants on the national Travel expenses restriction.forests: *And provided 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 Articles for publication.this appropriation: *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, $3,481,209. Conservation of navigable waters.Vol. 36, p. 961. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture more effectively to carry out the provisions of the act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 961), 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 of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability Expenses in Washington, D.
C.of navigable rivers,” $21,770 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, $5,966,869. bureau of chemistry. Chemistry Bureau.Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Salaries, Bureau of Chemistry: One chemist, who shall be chief of bureau, $5,000; one chief clerk, $2,500; one administrative assistant, $2,500; three executive clerks, at $2,000 each; ten clerks, class four; thirteen clerks, class three; two clerks, at $1,440 each; twenty clerks, class two; one clerk, $1,300; seventy-five clerks, class one; one clerk, $1,100; thirteen clerks, at $1,020 each; fifteen clerks, at $1,000 each; two multigraph operators, at $1,000 each; one clerk, $960;
Inspectors, etc.eleven clerks, at $900 each; two food and drug inspectors, at $2,500 each; two food and drug inspectors, at $2,250 each; one food and drug 253inspector, $2,120; thirteen 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; ten 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; seven laboratory helpers, at $840 each; two laboratory helpers, at $780 each; twenty-four laboratory helpers or laborers, at $720 each; two laboratory helpers or laborers, at $660 each; twenty-seven laboratory helpers or laborers, at $600 each; one laboratory assistant, $1,200; one toolmaker, $1,200; three samplers, at $1,200 each; one janitor, $1,020; one mechanic, $1,800; two mechanics, at $1,400 each; one mechanic, $1,200; one mechanic, $1,020; one mechanic, $1,000; one mechanic, $960; one mechanic, $900; two student assistants, at $300 each; two messengers, at $840 each; one skilled laborer, $1,050; one skilled laborer, $840; seven messenger boys, at $600 each; three messenger boys, at $540 each; six messenger boys, at $480 each; three messenger boys, at $420 each; two messenger boys, at $360 each; seven laborers, at $480 each; thirteen charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $411,670.
General expenses, Bureau of Chemistry: For all necessary General expenses.Apparatus, supplies, etc.expenses, 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 May General subjects.Vol. 12, p. 387.15, 1862, relating to the application of chemistry to agriculture, $42,400; For collaboration with other departments of the Government desiring Collaboration with other departments.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 where 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;
For investigating the preparation for market, handling, grading, Poultry and eggs.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, $45,000; For investigating the handling, grading, packing, canning, freezing, Fish handling, shipping, etc.storing, and transportation of fish, shrimp, oysters, and other shell fish, and for experimental shipments of fish, for the utilization of waste products, and the development of new sources of food, $20,000;
For the biological investigation of food and drug products and Biological food, etc., examinations.substances used in the manufacture thereof, including investigations of the physiological effects of such products on the human organism, $15,000; For the study and improvement of methods of utilizing by-products Citrus fruits by-products, etc.Fruit and vegetable maturity.of citrus fruits; and the investigation and development of methods for determining maturity in fruits and vegetables, in cooperation 254with, the Bureau of Plant Industry and the Bureau of Markets, $13,000;
Utilizing raw materials for colorants. For investigation and experiment in the utilization, for coloring purposes, of raw materials grown or produced in the United States, in cooperation with such persons, associations, or corporations as may be found necessary, including repairs, alterations, improvements, or additions to a building on the Arlington Experimental Farm, $100,000; Table sirup, etc. For the investigation and development of methods for the manufacture of table sirup and of methods for the manufacture of sweet sirups by the utilization of new agricultural sources, $12,000;
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 30, 1906, 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 outside of the District of Columbia;
Revision of Pharmacopoeia.and to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia and development of methods of analysis, $620,221; Naval stores investigation, etc. For investigating the grading, weighing, handling, transportation, and uses 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;
Insecticides and fungicides.Investigations, etc. For the investigation and development of methods of manufacturing insecticides and fungicides, and for investigating chemical problems relating to the composition, action, and application of insecticides and fungicides, $25,000; Dehydrating food materials.Cooperative study of, etc. For the study and improvement of methods of dehydrating materials used for food, in cooperation with such persons, associations, or corporations as may be found necessary, and to disseminate information as to the value and suitability of such products for food, $50,000;
Wool-scouring waste. For the investigation and development of methods of utilizing wool-scouring waste, $9,000; In all, for general expenses, $979,901. Total for Bureau of Chemistry, $1,391,571. 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; ten clerks, class one; seven clerks, at $1,000 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; one machinist, $1,440; one machinist, $1,380; one instrument maker, $1,200; one machinist’s helper, $900; one messenger, $840; one messenger or laborer, $480; two messenger boys, at $480 each; three laborers, at $600 each; one laborer, $300; one charwoman or laborer, $480; in all, $74,160. 255 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 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, etc.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 to Natural fertilizers.determine possible sources of supply of potash, nitrates, and other natural fertilizers, $31,340. For the investigation of soils, in cooperation with other branches of Cooperative soil investigations, mapping, etc.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 examination of soils to aid in the classification of agricultural Classification of agricultural lands.lands in cooperation with other bureaus of the department and other departments of the Government, $18,100; For the investigation and demonstration within the United States Potash investigations.to determine the best method of obtaining potash on a commercial scale, $127,600: *Provided,* That the product obtained from such *Proviso.*Sale of products.experimentation may be sold at a price to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and the amount obtained from the sale thereof shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts;
For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned lines of investigation, $4,000; Administrative expenses. In all, for general expenses, $417,075. Total for Bureau of Soils, $491,235. bureau of entomology. Entomology Bureau. Salaries, Bureau of Entomology: One entomologist, who shall Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.be chief of bureau, $5,000; one chief clerk and executive assistant, $2,250; one administrative assistant, $2,250: one editor, $2,250; one financial clerk, $1,800; four clerks, class four; seven clerks, class three; sixteen clerks, class two; twenty-two clerks, class one; eight clerks, at $1,000 each; one insect delineator, $1,600; two insect delineators, at $1,400 each; two entomological draftsmen, at $1,400 each; one entomological draftsman, $1,080; one photographer, $1,200; one entomological preparator, $1,000; four entomological preparators, at $840 each; eight entomological preparators, at $720 each; seven entomological preparators, at $600 each; one laborer, at $1,080; two messengers or laborers, at $900 each; one messenger or laborer, $840; three messengers or laborers, at $720 each; six messenger boys, at $480 each; one laborer, $540; one laborer, $480; two charwomen, at $480 each; three charwomen, at $240 each; in all $124,010.
General expenses, Bureau of Entomology: For the promotion General expenses.Investigation of insects, etc.of economic entomology; for investigating the history and the habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, arbori-256culture, 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 following investigations:
Specified objects.Fruits, fruit trees, etc.*Proviso.*Pecans. For investigations of insects affecting deciduous fruits, orchards, vineyards, and nuts, $105,780: *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, $147,060; European corn borer.Cooperative prevention of spread of.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the establishment of the European corn borer in Massachusetts, New York, and other States, and to provide means for the control and prevention of spread of this insect in these States or elsewhere in the United States, in cooperation with the State or States concerned, including rent outside of the District of Columbia, employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $250,000;
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, $100,400; Forests.Truck crops, stored products, etc. For investigations of insects affecting forests, $48,790; 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, $134,960;
Bee culture. For investigations and demonstrations in bee culture, $35,000; Tropical and subtropical fruits. For investigations of insects affecting tropical and subtropical fruits, including insects affecting the orange, lemon, grapefruit, mango, and so forth, $16,500; Fruit flies. For investigations and control, in cooperation with the Federal Horticultural Board, of the Mediterranean and other fruit flies, $32,000; Camphor thrip.Eradication of, etc. For conducting investigations and study of the nature and habits of the pest known as the camphor thrip, for the purpose of discovering methods of control and applying methods of eradication or control already discovered, $5,000;
Miscellaneous insects. For investigations, identification, 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, $62,330; Administrative expenses. For general administrative expenses connected with above lines of investigation, and for miscellaneous expenses incident thereto, $5,480; In all, for general expenses, $943,300. Gypsy and brown tail moths.Controlling spread of.
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 them Cooperative quarantine against.Vol. 37, pp. 315, 854.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 20, 1912, as amended, 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 257and insect pests, to permit and regulate the movements 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 experiment stations, including rent outside of the District of Columbia, the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $304,050.
Total for Bureau of Entomology, $1,371,360. 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, $4,000; one chief clerk and executive assistant, $1,800; one administrative assistant, $2,250; one executive assistant, $1,800; one financial clerk, $1,600; three clerks, class three; six clerks, class two; one clerk, $1,260; ten clerks, class one; one clerk, $1,100; 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 messenger boys, at $480 each; one messenger boy, $360; one laborer, $600; two charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $55,970.
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 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, Protection of bird preserves.Vol. 35, p. 1104.and for the enforcement of section 84 of the Act approved March 4, 1909, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” $34,600, of which sum $2,500 may be used for the purchase, capture, and transportation of game for national reservations;
For the improvement of the game preserves in Sullys Hill National Sullys Hill Park.Improving game preserves in.Park, in the State of North Dakota, including the construction of all fences, sheds, buildings, corrals, roads, shelters, and other structures which may be necessary for the protection of game or for the use of visitors, 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 of Food habits of birds and mammals.mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry, including experiments and demonstrations in destroying wolves, coyotes, prairie dogs, gophers, and other animals injurious to agriculture and animal husbandry, and for investigations and Fur-bearing animals.*Provisos.*Destroying ground squirrels.Wolves, coyotes, etc.experiments in connection with rearing of fur-bearing animals, including mink and marten, $464,440: *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 $123,800 shall be used on the national forests and the public domain in destroying wolves, coyotes, and other animals injurious to agriculture, animal husbandry, and wild game: *And provided further,* That of this sum not more than $125,000 shall Protecting domestic animals from rabies.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; 258 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, $24,400; Migratory bird protection.Vol. 40, p. 755. For all necessary expenses for enforcing the provisions of the migratory-bird treaty act of July 3, 1918 (Public, Numbered 186, Sixty-fifth Congress), and for cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and for necessary investigations *Proviso.*Preventing shipment of prohibited birds, etc.Vol. 35, pp. 1137, 1138.Carrying illegally killed game.Vol. 31, p. 187.connected therewith, $147,000: *Provided,* That of this sum not more than $22,000 may be used for the enforcement of sections 241, 242, 243, and 244 of the Act approved March 4, 1909, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” and for the enforcement of section 1 of the Act approved May 25, 1900, 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;
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, $10,760; In all, for general expenses, $686,200. Total for Bureau of Biological Survey, $742,170. division of accounts and disbursements. Accounts and disbursements division.Salaries. 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; seven clerks, class one; four clerks, at $1,000 each; one messenger, $720; one messenger boy, $600.
Total for Division of Accounts and Disbursements, $44,620. division of publications. Publications division.Pay of chief of division, assistants, etc. Salaries, Division of Publications: One chief of division, $3,500; one chief editor, $3,000; one assistant chief of division, $2,500; one superintendent of distribution, $2,500; one chief clerk, $2,000; one assistant, $2,000; one assistant, $1,400; one assistant 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; ten draftsmen or photographers, at $1,200 each; one assistant photographer, at $900; one lantern-slide colorist, $840; one laboratory aid, $270; one assistant in charge of document section, $2,000; one Clerks, etc.assistant in document section, $1,800; one assistant in document section, $1,400; one foreman, miscellaneous distribution, $1,500; one clerk, class three; two clerks, class two; ten clerks, class one; sixteen clerks, at $1,000 each; forty clerks, at $900 each; twenty-one clerks, at $840 each; five machine operators, at $1,200 each; five skilled laborers, at $1,000 each; two skilled laborers, at $900 each; seven skilled laborers, at $840 each; four skilled laborers, at $780 each; one chief folder, $1,200; one messenger or laborer, $900; thirteen messengers or laborers, 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; seven messenger boys, at $720 each; three messenger boys, at $600 each; two messenger boys, at $480 each; two messenger boys, at $420 each; two messenger boys, at $360 each; one laborer, $840; 259two laborers, at $600 each; three charwomen, at $480 each; three charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $196,520.
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, $5,000; Supplies, etc. For envelopes, stationery, and materials, $7,500; For office furniture and fixtures $1,320; For photographic equipment and for photographic materials and Photographic materials, etc.*Provisos.*Loans, sales, etc., of films.artists’ tools and supplies, $22,000: *Provided,* That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, under such rules and regulations and subject to such conditions as he may prescribe, to loan, rent, or sell copies of films: *Provided,* That in the sale or rental of films educational Preferences, receipts, etc.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, Miscellaneous.$750; For wagons, motor trucks, bicycles, horses, harness, and maintenance of the same, $1,000; For purchase of manuscripts, traveling expenses, electrotypes, illustrations, and other expenses not otherwise provided for, $4,000; For extra labor and emergency employments in the District of Columbia, $2,500; In all, for general expenses, $44,070. Total for Division of Publications, $240,590. bureau of crop estimates.
Crop Estimates Bureau. Salaries, Bureau of Crop Estimates: One statistician, who Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.shall be chief of bureau, $4,000; one chief clerk, $1,800; six clerks, class four; nine clerks, class three; fifteen clerks, class two; one clerk, $1,300; twenty-four clerks, class one; nineteen clerks, at $1,000 each; twenty-four clerks, at $900 each; one messenger, $840; three messengers or laborers, at $720 each; three messenger boys, at $660 each; one messenger boy, $480; one charwoman, $540; one charwoman, $360; in all, $129,060.
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 live-stock estimates, including acreage, yield, and value of farm products, as follows: Salaries and employment of labor in the city of Washington and Expenses in Washington, etc.elsewhere, supplies, telegraph and telephone service, freight and express charges, and all other necessary miscellaneous administrative expenses, $25,480;
Salaries, travel, and other necessary expenses of employees out of Field investigations.the city of Washington engaged in field investigations, $216,562; In all, for general expenses, $242,042. Total for Bureau of Crop Estimates, $371,102. library, department of agriculture. Library. Salaries, Library, Department of Agriculture: One librarian, Salaries.$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 clerks, at $1,000 each; six clerks, at $900 each; one clerk, $840; one messenger, $720; one messenger boy, $660; three messenger boys, at 260$600 each; one messenger boy, $480; two charwomen, at $480 each; in all, $32,160.
General expenses. General expenses, Library: For books of reference, law books, 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 mattings; 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 Heating plant repairs.department, $175,500, of which $33,000 shall be for necessary repairs to the central heating plant of the department. rent in the district of columbia.
Rent.Buildings in District of Columbia.*Ante,* p.225. 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.*Restriction.$100,000: *Provided,* That only such part of this sum shall be available to pay rent for space which can not be furnished by the Public Building Commission in Government buildings located in the District of Columbia. 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 clerk or chief accountant, $2,400; one financial clerk, $2,000; one clerk, $1,980; one clerk or proof reader, $1,800; four clerks, class four; eleven clerks, class three; two clerks, at $1,500 each; thirteen clerks, class two; two clerks, at $1,320 each; one clerk, $1,260; thirty-six clerks, class one; three clerks, at $1,100 each; thirty-nine clerks, at $1,000 each; thirty-one clerks, at $900 each; one clerk or lantern-slide colorist, $900; three clerks, at $840 each; two clerks, at $720 each; five messengers or laborers, at $720 each; two messengers or laborers, at $600 each; three messengers or laborers, at $480 each; three messenger boys, at $600 each; thirteen messenger boys, at $480 each; one messenger boy, $360; three messenger boys, at $300 each; one skilled laborer, $900; four charwomen, at $480 each; eleven charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $203,840.
Support of agricultural experiment stations.Vol. 24, p. 440. General expenses, States Relations Service: To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 2, 1887, entitled “An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July 2, 1862, and of the Acts supplementary thereto,” the sums apportioned to the several States and Territories, to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000; 261 To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 16, Allotment of additional appropriations.Vol. 34, p. 63.1906, entitled “An Act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof,” the sums apportioned to the several States and Territories, to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000: *Provided,* That not *Proviso.*Limit.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 of Cooperative agricultural extension work.Vol. 38, p. 372.the above Acts and the Act approved May 8, 1914, 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 2, 1862, and of Acts 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, the island of Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States, including the Clerical, etc., expenses.employment of clerks, assistants, and other persons 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 Annual statements.of Columbia, $69,600; and the Secretary of Agriculture 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, $751,280; For farmers’ cooperative demonstrations and for the study and Demonstrations, cotton boll weevil ravages, etc.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, *Proviso.*Voluntary contributions within the State accepted.$645,040: *Provided,* That the expense of such service shall be 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;
For cooperative agricultural extension work, to be allotted, paid Additional cooperative agricultural work.and expended in the same manner, upon the same terms and conditions, and under the same supervision as the additional appropriations made by the Act of May 8, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Vol. 38, p. 372.Large, page 372), 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 2, 1862, and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture,” $1,500,000; and all sums appropriated Plans of expenditures.by this Act for use for demonstration or extension work within any State shall be used and expended in accordance with plans mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the proper officials of the college in such State which receives the benefits of said Act of May 8, 1914;
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report Farmers’ institutes, agricultural schools, etc.Investigating progress of.upon the organization and progress of farmer’s 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 Agri-262ture 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;
Experimental stations in Alaska, and insular possessions. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the island of Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States, including the erection of buildings, the preparation, illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins, and all other necessary expenses, $215,000, as follows: Alaska, $75,000, of which $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available for the erection of barns, purchase of breeding live stock, and other expenses connected with the stock-breeding experiments on the island of Kodiak and at the Matanuska station;
Hawaii, $50,000; Porto Rico, $50,000; Guam, $25,000, of which $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available to repair damage due to Sale of products.typhoon; and the Virgin Islands of the United States, $15,000; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell such products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment *Provisos.*Hawaii extension work.Virgin Islands.Leaves of absence to employees.stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the island of Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States: *Provided,* That of the sum herein appropriated for the experiment station in Hawaii $10,000 may be used in agricultural extension work in Hawaii: *Provided further,* That hereafter employees of the Department of Agriculture assigned to permanent duty in the Virgin Islands shall be entitled to the same privileges as to leave of absence as are conferred upon employees assigned to Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam by the Act of Vol. 38, p. 441.Cumulative leaves allowed.June 30, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 441), and if any employee of the agricultural experiment stations of the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands shall elect to postpone the taking of any or all of the annual leave to which he may be entitled under the said Act of June 30, 1914, he may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, subject to the interests of the public service, be allowed to take at one time unused annual leave which may have accumulated within not to exceed four years, and be paid at the rate prevailing during the year such leave of absence has accumulated;
Utilization of farm products in the home. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture 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, $46,280;
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, $14,180. In all, for general expenses, $4,701,980. Total for States Relations Service, $4,905,820. bureau of public roads. Public Roads Bureau.Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc.
Salaries, Bureau of Public Roads: One chief of bureau, $6,000; one editor, $2,500; one draftsman or clerk, $1,920; one clerk, $1,900; one instrument maker, $1,800; one model maker, $1,800; four clerks, class four; six clerks, class three; one clerk or editorial clerk, $1,600; two clerks, at $1,500 each; one clerk or photographer, $1,440; one clerk or instrument maker, $1,440; one clerk or tabulator, $1,440; one 263clerk, class two; two clerks, at $1,380 each; two clerks, at $1,320 each; four clerks, at $1,260 each; six clerks, class one; one clerk or editorial clerk, $1,200; 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; one clerk, $1,100; two clerks, at $1,080 each; one clerk, $1,020; nine clerks, at $1,000 each; one clerk or skilled laborer, $1,000; four clerks, at $900 each; one mechanician, $1,680; one clerk or instrument maker, $1,200; one lantern-slide colorist, $1,320; one mechanic, $1,500; one mechanic, $1,200; one skilled laborer, $1,200; one laboratory aid, $960; two laborers, at $900 each; two messengers or laborers, at $840 each; two messengers, laborers, or laboratory helpers, at $720 each; two messengers or laborers, at $660 each; four messengers or laborers, at $600 each; three messenger boys, at $600 each; one fireman, $720; eight messenger boys, at $480 each; eight charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $113,640.
General expenses, Bureau of Public Roads: For salaries and General expenses.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 reports, as follows: *Provided,* That no part of these appropriations shall be expended for *Proviso.*Road-making machinery restrictions.the rent or purchase of road-making machinery, except such as may be necessary for field experimental work as hereinafter provided for:
For inquiries in regard to systems of road management throughout Materials, etc., investigations.the United States and for giving expert advice on this subject, $38,240; For investigations of the best methods of road making, especially ordinary sand-clay and dirt roads, and the best kinds of road-making materials, and for furnishing expert advice on road building and maintenance, $138,220; For investigations of the chemical and physical character of road Chemical, etc., investigations.materials, $47,020;
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 the 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, $82,440;
For investigating and reporting upon farm drainage and upon the Drainage of farms, swamp lands, etc.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 264structures; 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 of the District of Columbia, and for supplies and all necessary expenses, $73,760;
Domestic water supply of farms, etc. For investigating farm domestic water supply and drainage disposal, 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; Administrative expenses.
For general administrative expenses connected with the abovementioned lines of investigations and experiments, $16,000; In all, for general expenses, $480,680. Total for Bureau of Public Roads, $594,320. bureau of markets. Markets Bureau.Pay of chief of bureau, clerks, etc. Salaries, Bureau of Markets: One chief of bureau, $5,000; one chief clerk, $2,000; one administrative assistant, $3,000; one administrative assistant, $2,500; one clerk in charge of supplies and accounts, $2,250; two executive clerks, at $2,000 each; one clerk, $2,000; one executive assistant, $1,980; one administrative assistant, $1,980; eleven clerks, class four; one clerk, $1,740; fourteen clerks, class three; one clerk, $1,440; thirty-five clerks, class two; one clerk, $1,380; five clerks, at $1,320 each; one clerk, $1,300; one hundred and sixty-three clerks, class one; one clerk, $1,140; forty clerks, at $1,100 each; eighty-eight clerks, at $1,000 each; thirteen clerks, at $1,080 each; seven clerks, at $1,020 each; two clerks, at $960 each; twenty-four clerks, at $900 each; three clerks, at $840 each; two clerks, at $720 each; one laboratory helper, $900; one laboratory aid, $960; three laboratory aids, at $900 each; one laboratory aid, $840; one laboratory aid, $720; one photographer, $1,400; one photographer, $1,200;
Telegraph operators, etc.one superintendent of telegraph, $2,000; one supervising telegrapher, $1,620; five telegraph operators, at $1,600 each; forty-seven telegraph operators, at $1,400 each; one telegraph operator, $1,320; seven telegraph operators, at $1,200 each; one telegraph operator, $1,080; two telephone operators, at $900 each; one telephone operator, $840; one draftsman, $1,400; three draftsmen, at $1,200 each; one draftsman, $900; one map tracer, $900; one map tracer, $720; one map tracer, $600; four machine operators, at $1,200 each; two machine operators, at $1,100 each; one machine operator, $1,000; three chauffeurs, at $900 each; two skilled laborers, at $900 each; three laborers, at $840 each; six laborers, at $720 each; four laborers, at $660 each; five laborers, at $600 each; two laborers, at $540 each; one messenger, $720; ten messengers, at $540 each; one messenger, $480; six messenger boys, at $600 each; five messenger boys, at $540 each; twenty-one messenger boys, at $480 each; three messenger boys, at $420 each; one messenger boy, $360; one messenger boy, $300; one charwoman, $540; six charwomen, at $480 each; six charwomen, at $300 each; nine charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $671,810.
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: Distributing 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 265other branches of the department, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the transportation, marketing, and distributing of farm and food products, $317,520;
For collecting and distributing, by telegraph, mail, and otherwise, Market news, etc., of fruits and vegetables.timely information on the supply, commercial movement, disposition, and market prices of fruits and vegetables, $250,000; To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect until Stockyards, etc.Supervision of businesses connected with.Vol. 40, pp. 1802, 1846.their termination, the provisions of the proclamations of the President of June 18 and September 6, 1918, and the regulations thereunder, relating to the stockyards industry, including the employment of such persons as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $75,000;
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to gather from stockmen, Livestock and products.Gathering and distributing information of raising, marketing, etc.live-stock associations, State live-stock and agricultural boards, common carriers, stockyards, commission firms, live-stock exchanges, slaughtering and meat-packing companies, and other 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 live-stock market centers; prices of meats, fish, and meat and Meats and fish prices, storage, etc.fish 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, fish, and other animal products; and to gather and publish any related information pertaining Publishing results.to marketing and distribution of live stock, meats, fish, and animal by-products, the sum of $105,320;
For collecting and distributing, by telegraph, mail, and otherwise, Dairy and poultry trade information.timely information on the supply, demand, commercial movement, disposition, quality, and market prices of dairy and poultry products, $80,600; For collecting and distributing, by telegraph, mail, and otherwise, Grain, feeds, etc., information.timely information on the supply, demand, commercial movement, location, disposition, quality, and market prices of grain, hay, feeds, and seeds, $50,000;
To make investigation relating to the transportation, storage, Agricultural food products.Marketing, supply, etc.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 such food products or any of them by any individuals, groups, associations, combinations, or corporations, $48,800; For collecting and distributing, by telegraph, mail, and otherwise, Peanuts and products.Supply, commercial movement, etc.Perishable farm products.Certifying condition of shipments, etc., in interstate commerce.information on the supply, demand, commercial movement, disposition, quality, and market price of peanuts, and its products, $12,000;
For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and certify to shippers and other interested parties the quality and conditions of fruits, vegetables, poultry, butter, hay, and other perishable farm products, when received in interstate commerce at such important central markets as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time designate, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, including payment of such fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as may be to cover the cost for the service rendered: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Effect of certificates.That certificates issued by the authorized agents of the department shall be received in all courts of the United States as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained, $150,000;
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, *Proviso.*Testing spinning values, etc.compressing, and tare of cotton, $45,920: *Provided,* That of the sum 266thus appropriated $26,960 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;
Cooperation among farmers.Diffusing information, etc. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make studies of cooperation among farmers in the United States; 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, $15,780;
Farm products.Investigating distribution, marketing, etc., of. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the 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, $77,750; Grain handling, grading, etc. For investigating the handling, grading, and transportation of grain, including the grain sorghums, for the purpose of fixing definite grades thereof, $86,050;
Standard small fruits, etc., containers.Executing law fixing.Vol. 39, p. 673. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the Act entitle “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 31, 1916, including the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $3,800;
Administrative expenses. For general administrative expenses in connection with the lines of investigation, experiment, and demonstration conducted in the Bureau of Markets, $20,635; In all, for general expenses, $1,339,175. Cotton Futures Act.Enforcement.Vol. 39, p. 476; Vol. 40, p. 1351. Enforcement of the United States Cotton-Futures Act: To enable 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 elsewhere; and for all other expenses, including rent outside of the District of Columbia, that may be necessary in executing the provisions of this Act, $131,780.
Grain Standards Act.Enforcement.Vol. 39, p. 482. Enforcement of the United States Grain-Standards Act: 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, $598,600. Warehouse Act.Administration of.Vol. 39, p. 486. Administration of the United States Warehouse Act:
To 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, $35,000. Bonds of warehousemen.Conditions modified.Vol. 39, p. 486, amended. That, effective on and after the passage of this Act, section 6 of said United States Warehouse Act is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence of said section the words “other than personal security”, and by striking out at the end of the second sentence of said section the words “including the requirements of fire insurance”;
Warehouse receipts.Issued for other than fungibles, modified.Vol. 39, p. 489, amended.and section 18 of said Act is hereby amended by striking out at the end of said section the words “if it have plainly and conspicuously embodied in its written or printed terms a provision that such receipt is not negotiable” (Acts August 11, 1916, volume 39, pages 486–491, sections 1–33; October 1, 1918, volume 40, page 1003, section 1). 267 That hereafter, in the performance of the duties required of the Administration of oaths, etc.Vol. 39, pp. 476, 482, 486, 673.Bureau of Markets in the administration or enforcement of provisions of Acts (United States Cotton Futures Act, Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 476;
United States Grain Standards Act, Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 482; United States Warehouse Act, Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 486; Standard Container Act, Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 673; and the Acts making annual appropriations for the Department of Agriculture) relating to the Department of Agriculture, the Secretary of Agriculture, or any Persons authorized.representative specifically authorized in writing by him for the purpose, shall have power to administer oaths, examine witnesses, and call for the production of books and papers.
To enable the Bureau of Markets to complete the work of the Wool clip of 1918.Enforcing regulations for handling, etc.Domestic Wool Section of the War Industries Board and to enforce the Government regulations for handling the wool clip of 1918 as established by the Wool Division of said Board, pursuant to the Executive Order dated December 31, 1918, transferring such work to the said Bureau, $35,000. Total for Bureau of Markets, $2,811,365. enforcement of the insecticide act.
Insecticide Act. Salaries, enforcement of the Insecticide Act: One executive Pay of executive officer, clerks, etc.officer, $2,750; one executive assistant, $2,000; one clerk, class three; one clerk, class two; three clerks, 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 sample and storeroom custodian, $1,200; one laboratory helper, $840; one laboratory helper, $720; one laboratory helper, $600; one unskilled laborer, $600; one unskilled laborer, $480; two messenger boys, at $480 each; one messenger boy, $360; two charwomen, at $480 each; in all, $29,150.
General expenses, enforcement of the Insecticide Act: For Expenses enforcing.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: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions Salaries, supplies, etc.Vol. 36, p. 331.of the Act of April 26, 1910, entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,” $94,790.
Total for enforcement of Insecticide Act, $123,940. federal horticultural board. Federal Horticultural Board. Salaries, Federal Horticultural Board: One secretary of board, $2,280; one executive clerk, $2,000; one clerk, $1,980; one clerk, class four; one clerk, class three; one clerk, $1,560; three clerks, at $1,440 each; two clerks, class two; two clerks, at $1,260 each; seven clerks, class one; one messenger boy, $600; one messenger boy, $480; two messenger boys, at $360 each; one charwoman, $240; in all, $31,300.
General expenses, Federal Horticultural Board: For salaries General expenses.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: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions Enforcing nursery plant quarantine, etc.Vol. 37, pp. 315, 854.of the Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, 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 268permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes, $47,700;
Potato wart.Emergency expenses for exterminating, etc. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the establishment of the potato wart in eastern Pennsylvania, and to provide means for the extermination of this disease in Pennsylvania or elsewhere in the United States in cooperation with the State or States concerned, including rent outside the District of Columbia, employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $50,000;
In all, for general expenses, $97,700. Total for Federal Horticultural Board, $129,000. Interchangeable appropriations. And not to exceed 10 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 of such bureau, division, or office, but no more than 10 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 amount for Department. Total, Department of Agriculture, for routine and ordinary work, $31,355,811. miscellaneous. Miscellaneous.Reclamation projects.Aiding agricultural development of. Demonstrations on reclamation projects: 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, $48,600.
Conservation of navigable waters, etc.Cooperation with States, etc., for fire protection, etc., of watersheds.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 2 of the Act of March 1, 1911, 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, etc., in livestock 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 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.
Western irrigated, etc., lands.Dairying and live stock experiments in. 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 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.
Passenger vehicles.Allowance for, in 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 necessary in the conduct of 269the field work of the Department of Agriculture outside the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That not to exceed $15,000 of this amount *Provisos.*Purchases, etc., limited.shall be expended for the purchase of such vehicles, and that such vehicles 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 Agriculture shall, on the first day of each regular Report of expenditures.session of Congress, make a report to Congress showing the amount expended under the provisions of this paragraph during the preceding fiscal year.
Eradication of foot-and-mouth and other contagious diseases of animals:: Contagious diseases of animals.Emergency appropriation for eradicating, 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 Payment of 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 *Provisos.*Appraisement of values.quarantine regulations: *Provided,* That the payment for animals hereafter purchased may be made on appraisement based on the meat, dairy, 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 by the United States Government for any animal shall not exceed one-half of any such appraisements: *Provided further,* Unexpended balance reappropriated.Vol. 38, p. 1115.That so much of the appropriation of $2,500,000 made by the Agricultural Appropriation Act of March 4, 1915, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, 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 1919, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, 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.
Eradication of pink bollworm: To enable the Secretary of Pink bollworm of cotton.Emergency expenses for eradicating.Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the existence of the pink bollworm of cotton in Mexico, and to prevent the establishment of such insect in the United States by the employment of all means necessary, including rent outside of the District of Columbia and the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $595,800, as follows:
To prevent the movement of cotton and cotton seed from Mexico Preventing, etc., entry of cotton and cottonseed from Mexico.into the United States, including the regulation of the entry into the United States of railway cars and other vehicles, and freight, express, baggage, or other materials from Mexico, and the inspection, cleaning, and disinfection thereof, $148,560; any moneys received in payment Deposit of receipts for cleaning, etc.of charges fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture on account of such cleaning and disinfection at plants constructed therefor out of any appropriation made on account of the pink bollworm of cotton to be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts;
To make surveys to determine the actual distribution of the pink Cooperative extermination, etc., in Mexico.bollworm in Mexico and to exterminate local infestations in Mexico 270near the border of the United States, in cooperation with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities, $25,000; Investigations for control. To investigate in Mexico or elsewhere the pink bollworm as a basis for control measures, $25,000; Surveys, inspections, etc., in United States. To conduct surveys and inspections in Texas or in any other State to detect any infestation and to conduct such control measures, including the establishment of cotton-free areas, in cooperation with the State of Texas or other States concerned, as may be necessary to stamp out such infestation, to establish in cooperation with the Cooperation for extermination with Mexico.States concerned a zone or zones free from cotton culture on or near the border of any State or States adjacent to Mexico, and to cooperate with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities, or otherwise, by undertaking in Mexico such measures for the extermination of the pink bollworm of cotton as shall be determined to be practicable from surveys showing its distribution, $397,240: *Proviso.*No pay for crops, etc., destroyed.*Provided,* That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of crops or other property injured or destroyed.
American bison.Gifts to municipalities, etc., from surplus. That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion and under such conditions as he may prescribe, supply to any municipality or public institution not more than one American bison from any surplus which may exist in any herd under the control of the Aiding propagation.Department of Agriculture; and, in order to aid in the propagation of the species, animals may be loaned to or exchanged with other owners of American bison.
Conservation of navigable waters.Vol. 36, p. 961; Vol. 37, p. 855. That, in order to carry out the purposes mentioned in section 3 of the Act 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,” approved March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Additional appropriation for lands, etc.Statutes at Large, page 961), as amended, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, available until expended, the sum of $600,000 for the fiscal year ending on the 30th day of June, 1920.
Travel expenses.Allowances for, by motor vehicles. Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, the Secretary of Agriculture shall find that the expenses of travel can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual traveling expenses, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile, used for necessary travel on official business. Cooperation with department activities.Contributions from outside parties to be paid only through the Secretary, or State, etc., organizations.
That hereafter in carrying on the activities of the Department of Agriculture involving cooperation with State, county and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, or other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the State, Territory, district or insular possession in which such activities are to be carried on, moneys contributed from such outside sources, except in the case of the authorized activities of the Forest Service, shall be paid only through the Secretary of Agriculture or through State, county or municipal agencies, or local farm bureaus or like organizations, cooperating for the purpose with the Secretary of Agriculture.
Contributions not subject to prohibition against use for paying Government officials, etc.Vol. 39, p. 1106. The officials and the employees of the Department of Agriculture engaged in the activities described in the preceding paragraph and paid in whole or in part out of funds contributed as provided therein, and the persons, corporations, or associations making contributions as therein provided, shall not be subject to the proviso contained in the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1917, in Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, at page 1106; nor shall any official or em-271ployee engaged in the cooperative activities of the Forest Service, Forest Service included.or the persons, corporations, or associations contributing to such activities be subject to the said proviso.
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make suitable agricultural Agricultural exhibits at fairs, etc.Appropriation for.exhibits at State, interstate, and international fairs held within the United States, including the National Dairy Show to be held at Chicago, Illinois, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, $100,000: *Provided,* That not more than $25,000 shall be used in connection *Proviso.*Limit for National Dairy Show.with the National Dairy Show to be held at Chicago, Illinois, and that not more than $5,000 shall be used in connection with any other one fair.
That the President is hereby authorized to extend invitations to International Farm Congress.Invitation to foreign nations.other Nations to appoint delegates or representatives to the International Farm Congress to be held at Kansas City, Missouri, in September, 1919. That the President is hereby authorized to extend invitations to World Cotton Conference.Nations invited to.*Infra.*all nations of the world interested in the manufacture or raising of cotton to appoint delegates or representatives to the World Cotton Conference to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, October 13, 14, 15, and 16, 1919: *Provided,* That no appropriation shall be granted *Proviso.*No expense authorized.for the expenses of such delegates or for any other expenses incurred in connection with said conference.
That the word “package” where it occurs the second and last time Pure Food Act.Vol. 34, p. 771.Vol. 37, p. 732, amended.in the act entitled “An act to amend section 8 of an act entitled, ‘An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous deleterious foods, drugs, Wrapped meat packages subject to weight, etc., markings.medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,’” approved March 3, 1913, shall include and shall be construed to include wrapped meats inclosed in papers or other materials as prepared by the manufacturers thereof for sale.
That any homestead settler or entryman who, during the calendar Homestead settlers.Allowed leave of absence to obtain food, etc., because of drought conditions.year 1919, finds it necessary to leave his homestead to seek employment in order to obtain food and other necessaries of life for himself, family, and work stock, because of great and serious drought conditions, causing total or partial failures of crops, may, upon filing with the register and receiver proof of such conditions in the form of a corroborated affidavit, be excused from residence upon his homestead during all or part of the calendar year 1919, or the current year of such homestead which may fall principally in the year 1919, and Residence requirement construed.in the making of final proof upon such an entry absence granted under this Act shall be counted and construed as constructive residence by said homesteader.
Total carried by this bill for the Department of Agriculture, $33,900,211. Approved, July 24, 1919.