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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 44 STAT. · June 30, 1928 · Chapter 39

Chapter 39. Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 39.— An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and for other purposes.January 18, 1927.[[H. R. 15008](/us/bill/69/hr/15008).][[Public, No. 552](/us/pl/69/552).]. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Department of Agriculture appropriations. That the following stuns are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, namely; 977 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARYSecretary’s Office. salaries For Secretary of Agriculture, $15,000;
Assistant Secretary andSecretary, Assistant, office personnel, labor, etc. other personal services in the District of Columbia, including $7,294 for extra labor and emergency employments, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, and for personal services in the field, $042,000; in all, $657,000, of which amount not to exceed $634,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.
Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only oneIf only one position in a grade. position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade except that in unusuallyAdvances for unusual meritorious cases. meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shallRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whoseNo reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1480. compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another positionTransfers to another position without reduction.Payments under higher rates allowed. in the same or different grade, in the same or different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to contractContracts for stenographic reporting. for stenographic reporting services and the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for such purposes. For salaries and compensation of necessary employees in theMechanical, etc., employees. mechanical shops and power plant of the Department of Agriculture, $91,900. miscellaneous expenses, department of agriculture For stationery, blank books, twine, paper, gum, dry goods, soap,Contingent expenses. 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, not to exceed $700 for newspapers for which payment may be made in advance, advertising and press clippings, telegraphing, telephoning, postage, washing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating apparatus: for the maintenance, repair, and operation of not to exceed three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and one motor cycle, for official purposes only; for the payment of the Department of Agriculture’s proportionate share of the expense of the dispatch agent in New York; for official traveling expenses; and for other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the department, $143,000, of which not to exceed $1,500, in addition toNew automobile. the turn-in value of three automobiles now in use by the Department of Agriculture, may be used for the purchase of an automobile for official use. 978 rent of buildings in the district of columbia Rent.Buildings, etc., in the District.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, for use of the various bureaus, divisions, and offices of *Proviso*.Restriction.the Department of Agriculture, $180,366: *Provided*, That only such part of this sum shall be available to pay rent for space which can not be furnished by the Public Buildings Commission in Government buildings located in the District of Columbia. Total, office of Secretary, $1,071,366. Office of InformationInformation Office. salaries and general expenses Salaries and general expenses.For necessary expenses in connection with the publication, indexing, illustration, and distribution of bulletins, documents, and reports, including labor-saving machinery and supplies, envelopes, stationery and materials, office furniture and fixtures, photographic equipment and materials, artists’ tools and supplies, telephone and telegraph service, freight and express charges; purchase and maintenance of bicycles; purchase of manuscripts; traveling expenses; electrotypes, illustrations, and other expenses not otherwise provided Services in the District.for, $377,000, of which not to exceed $338,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923. printing and binding Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Department of Agriculture, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $738,000, Annual Reports.Vol. 28, p. 616; Vol. 34, p. 825.including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January 12, 1895, and in pursuance of the Joint Resolution Numbered 13, approved March 30, 1906, Farmers’ bulletins.and also including not to exceed $250,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, Work excepted.as they shall direct, but not including work done at the field printing plants of the Weather Bureau and the Forest Service authorized Vol. 40, p. 1270.by the Joint Committee on Printing, in accordance with the Act approved March 1, 1919. Services in the District.Total, Office of Information, $1,115,000, of which amount not to exceed $338,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. library, department of agricultureLibrary. Salaries and expenses.Salaries and expenses: For books of reference, law books, technical and scientific books, periodicals, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series; for salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for official traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $84,180, Services in the District.of which amount not to exceed $60,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. office of experiment stations and general expensesExperiment Stations Office. Support of agricultural stations.To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 2, 1887, entitled “An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations 979in connection with the colleges established in the several StatesVol. 24, p. 440. under the provisions of an Act approved July 2, 1862, and of theVol. 12, p. 503. Acts supplementary thereto,” the sums apportioned to the several States, to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000. To carry into effect the provisions of an Act approved March 16,Allotment of additional appropriations.Vol. 34, p. 563. 1006, 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, to be paid quarterly in advance, $720,000. To carry into effect the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act toAdditional allotments.Vol. 43, p. 970. authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations,” approved February 24, 1925, $1,920,000. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisionsAdministration expenses.Vol. 24, p. 440; Vol. 34, p. 63; Vol. 43, p. 970. of the Acts approved March 2, 1887, March 16, 1906, and February 24, 1925, 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,Territorial and insular possessions. including the employment of clerics, 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 outsideOutside rent. of the District of Columbia, $124,566; and the Secretary ofAnnual statements. 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. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintainExperiment stations in Territories and insular possessions. 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,Allotments to. $237,640, as follows: Alaska, $76,240; Hawaii, $54,940; Porto Rico, $56,460; Guam, $25,000; and the Virgin Islands of the United States, $25,000; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell suchSale of products. products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the island of Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the amount obtained from the sale thereof shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated for the experiment station in Hawaii*Proviso*.Extension work in Hawaii. $10,000 may be used in agricultural extension work in Hawaii. Total, Office of Experiment Stations, $3,722,206, of which amount not to exceed $117,140 may be expended for personal services in theServices in the District. District of Columbia. extension service—salaries and general expensesExtension Service. For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes,Administrative expenses. including personal services in the District of Columbia, $11,540. For farmers’ cooperative demonstration work, including specialFarmers’ cooperative demonstration work. suggestions of plans and methods for more effective dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice, at farmers’ institutes and in agricultural instruction,Labor in the District, etc. and for the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $1,424,000: *Provided*, That the expense of such service shall be defrayed from*Proviso*. this appropriation and such cooperative funds as may be volun980Voluntary contributions within a State accepted.tarily 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. Additional cooperative extension work.For cooperative agricultural extension work, to be allotted, paid, and expended in the same manner, upon the same terms and conditions, and under the same supervision as the additional Vol. 38, p. 372.appropriations made by the Act of May 8, 1014 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at 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,” $1,300,000; and all sums Plans of expenditures.appropriated 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 *Proviso*.County agents.the benefits of said Act of May 8, 1914: *Provided*, That of the above appropriation not more than $300,000 shall be expended for purposes other than salaries of county agents. Aiding development of irrigation 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, $38,640. Agricultural exhibits at State, etc., fairs.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make suitable agricultural exhibits at State, interstate, and international fairs held within the United States; for the purchase of necessary supplies and equipment; for telephone and telegraph service, freight and express charges; for travel, and for every other expense necessary, Assistance in the District, etc.including the employment of assistance in or outside the city of Washington, $108,045. Services in the District.Total, Extension Service, $2,882,225, of which amount not to exceed $400,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Grand total, Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $8,874,977. WEATHER BUREAUWeather Bureau. salaries and general expensesSalaries and general expense. Classification of.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 Vol. 26, p. 653.Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska, the provisions of an Act approved October 1, 1890, so far as they relate to the weather Air service reports.service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture, and *Ante*, p. 571.the amendment thereof contained in section 5(e) of the Air Commerce Act of 1926, for the employment of professors of meteorology, district forecasters, local forecasters, meteorologists, section directors, observers, apprentices, operators, skilled mechanics, instrument makers, foremen, assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, folders and feeders, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, special observers, displaymen, and other necessary employees; for fuel, gas, electricity, freight and express charges, furniture, stationery, fee, 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 pur981poses only; for instruments, shelters, apparatus, storm-warning towers and repairs thereto; for rent of offices; for repair 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,Telegraph and telephone expenses. telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the service, including the termination, effective on June 30, 1927, by agreement, of existing contracts with not more than fifteen companies so as to provide uniform rates during the fiscal year 1928 for all companies, and any contracts made as a result of this authority to terminate shall not contain rates in excess of those fixed for similar services in the contractContracts. of July 1, 1925, for which an adjustment appropriation of $168,312*Ante*, p. 170. was made in the Deficiency Act, approved March 3, 1926; 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 cooperationCooperation with other bureaus, etc. with other bureaus of the Government and societies and institutions of learning for the dissemination of meteorological information, as follows: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes,Chief of Bureau, and office personnel. including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $127,000. For necessary expenses in the city of Washington incident toExpenses in Washington. collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerology, $319,000, of which not to exceed $10,000 may be expended for the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weatherPrinting Office. maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, arid other publications: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limitation of work. That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau that can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said bureau. For necessary expenses outside of the city of Washington incidentExpenses elsewhere. to collecting and disseminating meteorological, climatological, and marine information, and for investigations in meteorology, climatology, seismology, evaporation, and aerology, $1,927,073. For investigations, observations, and reports, forecasts, warnings,Forecasts, warnings, etc. and advices for the protection of horticultural interests, $31,500. For the maintenance of stations, for observing, measuring, andAerological stations. investigating atmospheric phenomena, including salaries and other expenses in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $241,500. Total, Weather Bureau, $2,646,073, of which amount not to exceedServices in the District. $411,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRYAnimal Industry Bureau. salaries and general expensesSalaries and general expenses. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1884,Vol. 23, p. 31. establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and the provisions of theVol. 26, p. 833. Act approved March 3, 1891, providing for the safe transport and 982humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign Vol. 26, p. 414.countries, and for other purposes; the Act approved August 30, 1890, Vol. 32, p. 791.providing for the importation of animals into the United States, and for other purposes; 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; Vol. 32, p. 791.Contagious diseases.and the provisions of the 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 livestock, and for Vol. 33, p. 1264.Cattle quarantine.other purposes; 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 livestock therefrom, and for other purposes; and Vol. 34, p. 607.Twenty-eight-hour law.for carrying out 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 Vol. 37, p. 832.Animal viruses, etc.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 intended for use in the treatment of Collecting and disseminating information, etc.domestic animals; and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information concerning livestock, dairy, and other animal products; to prepare and disseminate reports on animal Pay of employees.industry; to employ and pay from the appropriation herein made as many persons in the city of Washington or elsewhere as he may Tuberculin, serums, etc., tests.deem necessary; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said tests Purchase, destruction, etc., of diseased animals.in such manner as he may deem best; to purchase and destroy diseased or exposed animals, including poultry, or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment essential to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, contagious poultry diseases, or other diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows: Chief of Bureau, and office personnel.For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $161,315. Inspection and quarantine work.For inspection and quarantine work, including all necessary expenses for the eradication of scabies in sheep and cattle, the inspection of southern cattle, the supervision of the transportation of livestock, 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, $689,935. Tuberculosis, etc., of animals.Investigating, etc., for control, eradication, etc.For investigating the diseases of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis of animals for their control and eradication, for the tuberculin testing of animals, and for researches concerning the causes of the diseases, their 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 Application of fund.cooperation with farmers, associations, or State, Territory, or county authorities, $5,964,000, of which $1,086,000 shall be set aside for administrative and operating expenses and $4,818,000 for the payment of indemnities, of which $1,192,000 shall be immediately available: *Provisos*.Reimbursing owners for animals destroyed.*Provided, however*, That in carrying out the purpose of this appropriation, if in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture it shall be necessary to condemn and destroy tuberculous or paratuberculous animals, if such animals have been destroyed, condemned, 983or die after condemnation, 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 such sums as he shall determine to be necessary, within the limitations above provided, for the payment of indemnities, for the reimbursement of owners of such animals, in cooperation with such States, Territories, counties, or municipalities,Cooperation of States, etc., required. 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 or paratuberculous animals and for compensation to owners of animals so condemned, but no part of the money hereby appropriated shall beRestriction on payments. 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 as compensation for or on account of any such animal if at the time of inspection or test, 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 noCompensation limited. payment as compensation for any animal condemned for slaughter 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, and municipality where the animal shall be condemned; that in no case shall any payment hereunder be more than $25 for any grade animal or more than $50 for any purebred animal, and that no payment shall be made unless the owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations. For all necessary expenses for the eradication of southern cattleSouthern cattle ticks eradication.*Proviso*. ticks, $712,390: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of animals or in the purchase of materialsPurchase of animals, etc., limited. for or in the construction of dipping vats upon land not owned solely by the United States, except at fail’s 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. For all necessary expenses for investigations and experiments inAnimal husbandry.Feeding, breeding, etc., experiments. animal husbandry; for experiments in animal feeding and breeding, including cooperation with the State agricultural experiment stations, including repairs and additions to and erection of buildings absolutely necessary to carry on the experiments, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, rent outside of theOutside rent. District of Columbia, and all other necessary expenses, $441,670: *Provided*, That of the sum thus appropriated $77,950 may be used*Provisos*.Poultry. for experiments in poultry feeding and breeding: *Provided further*, That of the sum thus appropriated $8,000 is made available for theSheep experiment station in Idaho. erection of necessary buildings at the United States sheep experiment station in Clark County, Idaho, to furnish facilities for the investigation of problems pertaining to the sheep and wool industry on the farms and ranges of the Western States. For all necessary expenses for scientific investigations in diseasesAnimal diseases investigations.Bethesda, Md., station maintenance. 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 products, $162,760: *Provided*, That of said sum $50,625 may be used*Proviso*.Contagious abortion of animals. for researches concerning the cause, modes of spread, and methods 984of treatment and prevention of the disease of contagious abortion of animals. Hog cholera.Investigations, 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 or *Provisos*.Regulating trade in animal viruses, etc.Vol. 37, p. 832.county authorities, $451,320: *Provided*, That of said sum $249,110 shall be available for expenditure in 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 product manufactured in the United States and the importation of such products intended for use in the treatment of domestic Pathological researches.animals: *Provided further*, That of said sum $28,990 shall be available for researches concerning the cause, modes of spread, and methods of treatment and prevention of this disease. Dourine eradication.For all necessary expenses for the investigation, treatment, and eradication of dourine, $26,970. In all, salaries and general expenses, $8,610,360. meat inspectionMeat Inspection. Additional expenses.Vol. 34, pp. 674, 1260.For additional expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act of June 30, 1906 Equine meat.Vol. 41, p. 241.(Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 674), as amended by the Act of March 4, 1907 (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 1256), and as extended to equine meat by the Act of July 24, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 241), including the purchase of tags, labels, stamps, and certificates printed in course of manufacture, $2,061,110: *Provided*, That the Department of Agriculture may upon request of any *Proviso*.Food, etc., inspection for other Federal branches, from their appropriations.branch of the Federal Government perform inspections of food and other products and receive reimbursement of the cost of such inspections, including salaries and expenses, out of appropriations available therefor. Services in the District.Total, Bureau of Animal Industry, $10,671,470, of which amount not to exceed $604,860 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF DAIRY INDUSTRYDairy Industry Bureau. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. Investigations, etc.Vol. 43, p. 243.For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1924, establishing a Bureau of Dairying, for salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and for all other necessary expenses, including repairs and additions to buildings absolutely necessary to carry on the experiments herein authorized, as follows: Chief of bureau, and office personnel.For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $62,300. Conducting investigations, etc.For conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in dairy industry, cooperative investigations of the dairy industry in the various States, and inspection of renovated butter factories, $425,134. In all, salaries and general expenses, $487,434. field station, woodward, oklahomaWoodward, Okla. Livestock department in field station at.For the maintenance, repairs, and construction of buildings, in connection with the Woodward, Oklahoma, Field Station of a livestock department, through which experiments and demonstrations 985in livestock breeding, growing, and feeding, including both beef and dairy animals, may be made, $12,300. Total, Bureau of Dairy Industry, $499,734, of which amount notServices in the District. to exceed $260,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRYPlant Industry Bureau. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. For all necessary expenses in the investigation of fruits, fruitInvestigation of agricultural products, etc. trees, grain, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, grasses, forage, drug, medicinal, poisonous, fiber, and other plants and plant industries in cooperation with other branches of the department, the State experiment stations, and practical farmers, and for the erection of necessary farm buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any building erected*Proviso*.Limit for buildings. shall not exceed $1,500; for field and station expenses, including fences, drains, and other farm improvements; for repairs in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; for rent outside of the DistrictOutside rent. of Columbia; and for the employment of all investigators, local andEmploying investigators. 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: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes,Chief of Bureau, and Office personnel. including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $193,120. For investigations of plant diseases and pathological collections,Plant diseases, etc. including the maintenance of a plant-disease survey, $108,440. For the investigation of diseases of orchard and other fruits,Orchard fruits, etc. including the diseases of the pecan, $142,705. For conducting such investigations of the nature and means ofCitrus canker.Eradication, etc. 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, 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,Cooperation, expenses. organizations of growers, or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes, $45,000, and, in the discretionLimited to local, etc., contributions. of the 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*Proviso*.No pay for destroyed trees, etc. the money 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 forest and ornamental treesTrees, shrubs, etc. and shrubs, including a study of the nature and habits of the parasitic fungi causing the chestnut-tree bark disease, the white-pineChestnut-tree bark disease, etc. 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, $140,000, of which sum not more than $10,000 may be expended for the employment ofPathologists at forest experiment stations. pathologists in connection with forest experiment stations. For applying such methods of eradication or control of the white-pineWhite-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 986concerned, organizations, or individuals as he may deem necessary Local contributions required.to accomplish such purposes, and in the discretion of the 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 States, county or local authorities, or by individuals or organizations for the *Proviso*.No pay for destroyed trees, etc.accomplishment of such purposes, $471,520: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed. Cotton, truck crops, etc., diseases.For the investigation of diseases of cotton, potatoes, truck crops, forage crops, drug and related plants, $167,570, of which $7,500 shall be immediately available for investigations relating to the Root-rot of cotton.root-rot of cotton. Crop plant physiology.For investigating the physiology of crop plants and for testing and breeding varieties thereof, $80,160. Plant nutrition.For plant-nutrition investigations, $16,780. Acclimatization tropical plants, etc.For acclimatization and adaptation investigations of cotton, corn, 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 Hard fibers, etc.*Provisos*.Cottonseed interbreeding.increasing the production of hard fibers outside of the continental United States, $200,800: *Provided*, That not more than $7,500 of this sum may be used for experiments in cottonseed Rubber-producing plants.interbreeding: *Provided further*, That of this sum $50,000 may be used for explorations, research, and field experiments relating to potential rubber-producing plants. Drug plants, etc.For the investigation, testing, and improvement of plants yielding drugs, spices, poisons, oils, and related products and by-products and for general physiological and fermentation investigations, $58,200. Crop technology; nematodes.For crop technological investigations, including the, study of plant-infesting nematodes, $54,340. Commercial seeds and grasses, etc.Testing samples, etc.For studying and testing commercial seeds, including the testing of samples of seeds of grasses, clover, or alfalfa, and lawn-grass seeds secured in the open market, and where such samples are found to be adulterated or misbranded the results of the tests shall be published, together with the names of the persons by whom the seeds Preventing admission of adulterated seeds, etc.Vol. 37, p. 506.*Ante*, p. 325.were 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), $64,538: *Provided*, *Proviso*.International Seed Testing Congress expenses.That not to exceed $250 of this amount may be used for meeting the share of the United States in the expenses of the International Seed Testing Congress in carrying out plans for correlating the work of the various adhering governments on problems relating to seed analysis or other subjects which the congress may determine to be necessary in the interest of international seed trade. Cereals.Improving, etc.For the investigation and improvement of cereals, including corn, and methods of cereal production, and for the study and control of cereal diseases, including barberry eradication, 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 broomcorn and methods of broomcorn production, *Provisos*.Rust spores destruction.$737,200: *Provided*, That $375,000 shall be set aside for the location of and destruction of the barberry bushes and other vegetation from Contributions from States, etc.which rust spores originate: *Provided further*, That $75,000 of this amount shall be available for expenditure only when an equal amount shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, 987counties, or local authorities, or by individuals or organizations, for the accomplishment of such purposes. For the investigation and improvement of tobacco and the methodsTobacco production. of tobacco production and handling, $38,740. For the breeding and physiological study of alkali-resistant andArid land crops. drought-resistant crops, $23,920. For sugar-plant investigations, including studies of diseases andSugar plant investigations. the improvement of sugar beets and sugar-beet seed, $171,255. For investigation, improvement, and utilization of wild plantsGrazing lands, etc. and grazing lands, and for determining the distribution of weeds and means of their control, $45,380. For the investigation and improvement of methods of crop productionDry land, etc., crop production. under subhumid, semiarid, or dry-land conditions, $208,050: *Provided*, That the limitations in this Act as to the cost of farm*Provisos*.Buildings.Free tree distribution limited. buildings shall not apply to this paragraph: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in the free distribution or propagation for free distribution of cuttings, seedlings, or trees of willow, box elder, ash, caragana, or other common varieties of fruit, ornamental, or shelter-belt trees in the Northern Great Plains area except for experimental or demonstration purposes in the States of North and South Dakota, and in Montana and Wyoming east of the five thousand-foot contour line: *Provided further*, ThatNo new field stations. no part of this appropriation shall be used for the establishment of any new held station. For investigations in connection with western irrigation agriculture,Utilizing western reclaimed lands. the utilization of lands reclaimed under the Reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $109,095. For the investigation, improvement, encouragement, and determinationEdible nuts.Growing, harvesting, utilizing, 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, $29,040. For the investigation and improvement of fruits, and the methodsFruits.Growing, handling, marketing, etc. of fruit growing, harvesting, handling, and studies of the physiological and related changes of fruits and vegetables during the processes of marketing and while in commercial storage, $197,060. To cultivate and care for the gardens and grounds of the DepartmentExperimental garden and grounds, D. C. of Agriculture in the city of Washington, including the upkeep and lighting of the grounds and the construction, surfacing, and repairing of roadways and walks: and to erect, manage, und maintain conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture in the city of Washington, $89,500. For horticultural investigations, including the study of producingHorticultural Investigations.Marketing of vegetables, etc. and harvesting truck and related crops, including potatoes, and studies of the physiological and related changes of vegetables while in the processes of marketing and in commercial storage, and the, study of landscape and vegetable gardening, floriculture, and related subjects, $115.000. For investigating, in cooperation with States or privately ownedNursery plants.Cooperative investigations of American sources of stocks, cuttings, etc. nurseries, methods of propagating fruit trees, ornamental and other plants, the study of stocks used in propagating such plants and methods of growing stocks, for the purpose of providing American sources of stocks, cuttings, or other propagating materials, $21,800. For continuing the necessary improvements to establish andArlington, Va., experimental farm, etc.Maintenance, etc. maintain a general experiment farm and agricultural station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April 18, 1900, $57,000:Vol. 31, p. 133. 988*Proviso*.Buildings.*Provided*, That the limitations in this Act as to the cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph. Foreign seed and plant introduction.For investigations in foreign seed and plant introduction, including the study, collection, purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries and from our possessions, and for experiments with reference to their introduction and cultivation in this country, $182,300. New and rare seeds, forage plants, etc.For the purchase, propagation, testing, and distribution of new and rare seeds; for the investigation and improvement of grasses, alfalfa, clover, and other forage crops, including the investigation of (he utilization of cacti and other dry-land plants, $120,500. Biophysical investigations.For biophysical investigations in connection with the various lines of work herein authorized, $35,812. Total, Bureau of Plant Industry, $3,945,425, of which amount Services in the District.not to exceed $1,393,800 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. FOREST SERVICEForest Service. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. Experiments, etc.Restricted to United States.To enable the Secretary of 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 test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the Buildings.planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any *Proviso*.Cost, etc.Vol. 43, p. 1132.building purchased, erected, or as improved shall not exceed $1,500 except as provided by the Act of March 3, 1925; to pay all expenses Protection, etc., of national forests.necessary to protect, administer, and improve the national forests, including tree planting in the forest reserves to prevent erosion, drift, surface wash, and soil waste and the formation of floods, and 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 injury to, Government property; to ascertain the natural conditions upon Care of fish and game.and utilize the national forests; 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 investigations made by the Station supplies and services.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 the 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, and washing towels, and official traveling and other necessary expenses, including traveling expenses for Outside rent.legal and fiscal officers while performing Forest Service work; and for rent outside of the District of Columbia, as follows: 989 For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes,Chief Forester, and office personnel. including the salary of the Chief Forester and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $366,748. For the employment of forest supervisors, deputy forest supervisors,Forest supervisors, rangers, guards, etc. forest rangers, forest guards, and administrative clerical assistants on the national forests, and for additional salaries and field-station expenses, including the maintenance of nurseries, collecting seed, and planting, necessary for the use, maintenance, improvement, and protection of the national forests and of additional national forests created or to be created under section 11 of the Act ofVol. 36, p. 963; Vol. 43, p. 653. March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 963), and under the Act of June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, pages 653–655), and lands under contract for purchase or for the acquisition of which condemnation proceedings have been instituted for the purposes of said Acts, and for necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of the Forest Service and of the national forests: In national forest district one, Montana, Washington, Idaho, andDistrict expenses allotted.*Proviso*.Care of graves of fire fighters. South Dakota, $1,236,186: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to use not to exceed $200 in caring for the graves of fire fighters buried at Wallace, Idaho; Priest River, Idaho; Newport, Washington; and Saint Maries, Idaho; In national forest district two, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Minnesota, $757,451: *Provided*, That not to exceed $3,000 of the sum appropriated in this*Proviso*.Herd of breed of cattle in Wichita Forest, Okla. paragraph shall be expended for the purchase and maintenance of a herd of long-horned or Spanish breed of cattle for the Wichita National Forest in Oklahoma to the end that the present comparatively few living examples of this historic breed of cattle may be preserved from complete extinction; In national forest district three, Arizona and New Mexico, $666,072; In national forest district four, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado, $868,457; In national forest district five, California and Nevada, $929,523; In national forest district six, Washington, Oregon, and California, $1,012,513; In national forest district seven, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine, Porto Rico, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois, $430,593; In national forest district eight, Alaska, $115,697; In all, for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, andAggregate amounts. general administration of the national forests, $6,016,492: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Interchangeable allotments for emergencies. That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes 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 amount so interchangedLimit. shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated. For fighting and preventing forest fires on or threatening theFighting forest fires. national forests and for the establishment and maintenance of a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9,Revested Oregon-California Railroad lends, etc.Vol. 39, p. 218. 1916, and the lands known as the Coos Buy Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (numbered 2711), in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, $283,000 of which $150,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That not to exceed $75,000 of this amount may be used by*Proviso*.Insect infestation. the Secretary of Agriculture in meeting emergencies caused by forest inserts on national forests. 990 Airplane patrol.For cooperation with the War Department in the maintenance and operation of an airplane patrol to prevent and suppress forest fires *Proviso*.Purchases forbidden.on national forests and adjacent lands, $50,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of land or airplanes. Selecting lands for homestead entries, etc.For the selection, classification, and segregation of lands within the 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 hinds in effecting exchanges authorized by law and for the survey thereof by metes and bounds or otherwise, by employees of the Forest Service, under the Surveying, etc., agricultural lands in national forests.direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and for the survey and platting of certain lands, chiefly valuable for agriculture, now listed or to fie listed within the national forests, under the Vol. 34, p. 233.Vol. 30, pp. 34, 1095.Vol. 37, p. 843.Act of June 11, 1906 (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, $55,000. Public camp grounds facilities.For the construction of sanitary facilities and for fire preventive measures on public camp grounds within the national forests when necessary for the protection of the public health or the prevention of forest fires, $40,000. Equipments, supplies, etc.For the purchase and maintenance of necessary field, office, and laboratory supplies, instruments, and equipments, $130,000. Investigating wood distillation, forest products, etc.For investigations of methods for wood distillation and for the 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 and fiber products, and for commercial demonstrations of improved methods or processes, in cooperation with individuals and companies, $500,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Flax straw for pulp manufacture.That not to exceed $15,000 of this amount may be used for the investigation by the Forest Products Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture of flax straw as a source of supply for the manufacture of pulp and paper. Range conditions and improvement.For experiments and investigations of range conditions within the national forests or elsewhere on the public range, and of methods for improving the range by reseeding, regulation of grazing, and other means, $44,880. Seeding, tree planting, etc.For the purchase of tree seed, cones, and nursery stock, for seeding and tree planting within national forests, and for experiments and investigations necessary for such seeding and tree planting, $150,000. Management of forest lands.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 Experiment stations in Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.*Ante*, p. 838.forest and forest land, $337,000, of which amount not to exceed $60,000 shall be immediately available for the establishment of forest experiment stations as provided in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment and maintenance of a forest experiment station in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys,” approved July 3, Station in Pennsylvania, etc.*Ante*, p. 840.1926, and as provided in the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment and maintenance of a forest experiment station in Pennsylvania and the neighboring States,” approved July 3, 1926: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Building at Bessey Nursery, Nebraska National Forest.That not more than $1,000 of this amount may be expended for the improvement of the station building which was constructed at the Bessey Nursery, Nebraska National Forest (formerly Dismal River Vol. 34, p. 696.Forest Reserve), in accordance with the Act of June 30, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 696). 991 For estimating and appraising timber and other resources on theAppraising timber for sale, etc. national forests preliminary to disposal by sale or to the issue of occupancy permits, and for emergency expenses incident to their sale or use, $108,550. For the construction and maintenance of roads, trails, bridges,Permanent improvements. fire lanes, telephone lines, cabins, fences, and other improvements necessary for the proper and economical administration, protection, and development of the national forests, $526,900, of which amountAmount for forests in southern California. $100,000 is reserved for expenditure on the Angeles, Cleveland, Santa Barbara, and San Bernardino National Forests in southern California: *Provided*, That such sum of $100,000 shall not be*Provisos*.Local contributions required. expended unless an equal amount is contributed for such work by State, county, municipal, and/or other local interests, to be paid, in whole or” in part, in advance of the performance of the work for which this appropriation provides: *Provided further*, ThatPurchase of telephone lines, etc. where, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, direct purchase will be more economical than construction, telephone lines, cabins, fences, and other improvements may be purchased: *Provided further*,Division fences, stock driveways, etc. 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 forests: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $2,000Dam at Cass Lake, Minn.*Ante*, p. 618. of this appropriation may be used for repair and maintenance of the dam at Cass Lake, Minnesota. Total, Forest Service, $8,608,570; and in addition thereto thereAdditional from cooperative forest protection fund.Vol. 43, p. 1132. are hereby appropriated all moneys received as contributions toward cooperative work under the provisions of section 1 of the Act approved March 3, 1925, which fund shall be covered into the Treasury and constitute a part of the special funds provided by theVol. 38, p. 430. Act of June 30, 1914: *Provided*, That not to exceed $440,000 may*Proviso*.Services in the District. be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY AND SOILSChemistry and Soils Bureau. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. For all necessary expenses connected with the investigations andInvestigations, apparatus, supplies, employees, etc. 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 necessary expenses for general administrative purposes,Chief of Bureau, and office personnel. including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $50,920. For conducting the investigations contemplated by the Act ofGeneral subjects.Vol. 12, p. 387.Biological food and drug investigations. May 15, 1862, relating to the application of chemistry to agriculture; for the biological investigation of food and drug products and substances used in the manufacture thereof, including investigations of the physiological effects of such products on the human organism; to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the development of methods of analysis, $195,947. For investigation and experiment in the utilization, for coloring,Utilizing native raw materials for colorants, etc. medicinal, and technical purposes, of raw materials grown or produced in the United States, in cooperation with such persons, asso992ciations, or corporations as may be found necessary, including repairs, Arlington Farm building.alterations, improvements, or additions to a building on the Arlington Experimental Farm, $72,921. Table sirup, etc.For the investigation and development of methods for the manufacture of table sirup and sugar and of methods for the manufacture of sweet sirups by the utilization of new agricultural sources, $35,234. 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, $34,800. Plant dust explosions, etc.Methods for preventing.For the investigation and development of methods for the prevention of farm fires and of grain-dust, smut-dust, and other plant-dust explosions and resulting fires, including fires in cotton gins and cotton-oil mills, independently or in cooperation with individuals, associations, or corporations, $42,743. Naval stores.Investigations, demonstrations, etc.Vol. 42, p. 1435.For the investigation and demonstration of improved methods or processes of preparing naval stores, the weighing, handling, transportation, and the uses of same, in cooperation with individuals and companies, including the employment of necessary persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $10,000. Soil types, composition, etc., investigations.For chemical investigations of soil types, soil composition, and soil 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, $26,720. Physical productivity of soils, etc.For physical investigations of the important properties of soil which determine productivity, such as moisture relations, aerations, heat conductivity, texture, and other physical investigations of the various soil classes and soil types, $17,225. Fertilizers.For investigations within the United States of fertilizers and other soil amendments and their suitability for agricultural use, $278,940. Cooperative soil mapping.For the investigation of soils, in cooperation with other branches of the Department of Agriculture, other departments of the Government, State agricultural experiment stations, and other State institutions, and for indicating upon maps and plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations, $237,515. Soil bacteriology investigations.For soil-bacteriology investigations, including 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, Publishing tests of cultures.or misbranded, the results at the tests may be published, together with the names of the manufacturers and of the persons by whom the cultures were offered for sale, $40,840. Soil fertility.For soil-fertility investigations into organic causes of infertility and remedial measures, maintenance of productivity, properties and compostion of soil humus, and the transformation and formation of soil humus by soil organisms, $71,200. Total, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, $1,115,005, of which amount Services in the District.not to exceed $879,294 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGYEntomology Bureau,. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. Investigations of insects, etc.For the promotion of economic entomology: for investigating the history and the habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, and the study of insects affecting the health of man and domestic animals, and ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious; for collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such investiga993tions; for salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia,Outside rent. and including not to exceed $3,000 for the erection of insectaries and other buildings: *Provided*, That the cost of any such building*Proviso*.Buildings, etc. erected shall not exceed $1,500; for freight, express charges, official traveling expenses, office fixtures, supplies, apparatus, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and electric current, in connection with the following investigations: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes,Chief of Bureau, and office personnel. including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,338. For investigations of insects affecting deciduous fruits, orchards,Specific investigations.Fruits, orchards, etc. vineyards, and nuts, $130,980. For investigations of insects affecting cereal and forage crops,Cereal, forage crops, etc. including a special investigation of the Hessian fly, grasshopper, alfalfa weevil, and the chinch bug, $207,300. For investigations of insects affecting southern field crops, includingSouthern Held crops. insects affecting cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and so forth, and the cigarette beetle and Argentine ant, $292,340. For investigations of insects affecting forests, $79,570: *Presided*,Forests.*Proviso*.Combating infestations of national forests, etc. That $15,000 shall be used for preventing and combating infestations of insects injurious to forest trees on and near the national forests, independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Federal Government, with States, counties, municipalities, or with private owners. For investigations of insects affecting truck crops, includingTruck corps, etc. insects and wireworms affecting the potato, sugar beet, cabbage, onion, tomato, beans, peas, and so forth, and insects affecting stored products, $196,480. For investigations and demonstrations in bee culture, $42,380.Bee culture. For investigations of insects affecting citrus and other tropicalTropical and subtropical plants. and subtropical plants, and for investigations and control of the Mediterranean and other fruit flies, in cooperation with the Federal Horticultural Board, $77,400. For investigations, identification, and systematic classification ofMiscellaneous insects affecting health of man, etc. 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, $98,857. In all, salaries and general expenses, $1,225,645. preventing spread of mothsGypsy and brown-tail moths. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergencyEmergency appropriation for controlling, etc. 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 within the infested territory; by establishing andCooperative maintenance of quarantine. maintaining a quarantine against further spread in such a manner as is provided by the general nursery stock law, approved AugustVol. 37, pp. 315, 854. 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 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, includingOutside rent, etc. rent outside of the District of Columbia, the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $670,000. 994 prevention of spread of european corn borerEuropean corn borer. Emergency appropriation for preventing spread of, etc.*Post*, pp. 1065, 1177.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the spread of the European corn borer, and to provide means for the investigation, control, and prevention of spread of this insect throughout the United States, in cooperation with the States concerned, including, when necessary, cooperation with the Quarantines.Vol. 37, pp. 315, 854.Federal Horticultural Board in establishing, maintaining, and enforcing quarantines promulgated under the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $685,120, of which amount $50,000 shall *Proviso*.Local, etc., contributions required.be immediately available: *Provided*, That in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture $300,000 of this amount shall be available for expenditure only when an equal amount shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, counties, or local authorities, or by individuals or organizations, for the accomplishment of such purposes. preventing spread of the mexican bean beetleMexican bean beetle. Emergency appropriation for preventing spread of.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the recent introduction and rapid multiplication of the Mexican bean beetle in the State of Alabama and other States, and to provide means for the study, experimentation in eradication, and for the control and prevention of the spread of this insect in State, etc., cooperation.that State and to other States, in cooperation with the State of Alabama and other States concerned and with individuals affected, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $32,500. preventing spread of japanese and asiatic beetlesJapanese and Asiatic beetles. Emergency appropriation for preventing spread of.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the spread of the Japanese and Asiatic beetles, and to provide means for the investigation, control, and prevention of spread of these insects throughout the United States, in cooperation with the States concerned, including, when necessary, cooperation with the Federal Horticultural Board in establishing, maintaining, Quarantines.and enforcing quarantines promulgated under the plant quarantine Vol. 37, pp. 315, 854.Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $465,000, of which amount $50,000 shall be immediately available. Services in the District.Total, Bureau of Entomology, $3,078,265, of which amount not to exceed $325,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEYBiological Survey Bureau. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. Salaries, supplies, etc.For salaries and employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, including the purchase of bags, tags, and labels printed in the course of manufacture, traveling and all other expenses necessary in conducting investigations and carrying out the work of the bureau, as follows: Chief of Bureau, and office personnel.For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $67,020. 995 For the maintenance of the Montana National Bison Range andReservations for game. 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, rock work, 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,” $72,000: *Provided*, That $2,500 may be used*Proviso*.Game purchase, etc. for the purchase, capture, and transportation of game for national reservations. For investigating the food habits of North American birds andNorth American birds and animals.Food habits investigations, etc. other animals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in connection with rearing fur-bearing animals; for experiments, demonstrations, and cooperation in destroying mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, bobcats,Destroying predatory animals. prairie dogs, gophers, ground squirrels, jack rabbits, and other animals injurious to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, and wild game; and for the protection of stock and otherSuppressing rabies. domestic animals through the suppression of rabies in predatory wild animals, $568,000. For biological investigations, including the relations, habits, geographicBiological investigations. distribution, and migration of animals and plants, and the preparation of maps of the life zones, $40,000. For all necessary expenses for enforcing the provisions of theMigratory bird protection.Vol. 40, p. 755. Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 755), and for cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and for necessary investigations connected therewith, $158,000: *Provided*, That of this sum not more*Proviso*.Preventing shipment of prohibited birds, etc.Vol. 35, pp. 1135–1138. than $20,500 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,Carrying illegally killed game.Vol. 31, p. 187. 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. For investigations, experiments, and demonstrations for theReindeer in Alaska. welfare, improvement, and increase of the reindeer industry inImproving industry, etc. Alaska, including the erection of necessary buildings and other structures and cooperation with the Bureau of Education, and for all expenses necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of the Alaska game law, approved January 13, 1925, $100,000.Vol. 43, p. 739. In all, salaries and general expenses, $1,005,020. upper mississippi river refugeUpper Mississippi, River Refuge. For the acquisition of areas of land or land and water pursuantAcquiring areas for. to the Act entitled “An Act to establish the Upper Mississippi RiverVol. 43, pp. 650, 1354. Wild Life and Fish Refuge,” approved June 7, 1924, and amendment thereto approved March 4, 1925, and for all necessary expenses incident thereto, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $5,000, being part of the sum of $1,500,000 authorized to be appropriated for such purpose by section 10 of said Act; and for all necessary expenses of the Secretary of Agriculture authorized by section 9 of said Act, $25,000; in all, $30,000, which shall be available until expended: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Contracts authorize for additional areas. That the Secretary of Agriculture may incur obligations and enter into contracts for the acquisition of additional areas to an amount 996which, inclusive of the amounts heretofore and herein appropriated, Deemed Federal obligations.shall not exceed a total of $1,500,000, and such contracts shall be deemed contractual obligations of the Federal Government. Services in the District.Total, Bureau of Biological Survey, $1,035,020, of which amount not to exceed $207,000 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADSPublic Roads Bureau. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. Salaries, supplies, etc.For the following expenses, including salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, office fixtures, apparatus, traveling, and all other necessary expenses, for conducting investigations and experiments, and for collating, reporting, and illustrating the results of same, and for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reports, in addition to Vol. 42, p. 217.any moneys available from the funds provided under the Act of July 11, 1916, as amended: Chief of Bureau, and office personnel.For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $67,380. Road management systems.For inquiries in regard to systems of road management and economic studies of highway construction, operation, maintenance, and value, either independently or in cooperation with the State highway departments and other agencies, and for giving expert advice on these subjects, $65,500. Materials, plants, etc., investigations.For investigations of the best methods of road making, especially by the use of local materials: for studying the types of mechanical plants and appliances used for road building and maintenance; for Experimental highways.studying methods of road repair and maintenance suited to the needs of different localities; for maintenance and repairs of experimental highways, including the purchase of materials and equipment; for furnishing expert advice on these subjects; and for the employment of assistants and labor, $80,000. Farm irrigation, etc., investigations.For investigating and reporting upon the utilization of water in farm irrigation, including the best methods to apply in practice; the different kinds of power and appliances; the flow of water in ditches, pipes, and other conduits; the duty, apportionment, and measurement of irrigation water, the customs, regulations, and laws affecting Drainage of farms, swamp lands, etc.irrigation; for investigating and reporting upon farm drainage and upon the drainage of swamp and other wet lands which may be made available for agricultural purposes; for preparing plans for the removal of surplus water by drainage; for the development of equipment for farm irrigation and drainage and for giving expert advice and assistance; for field experiments and investigations and the purchase and installation of equipment for experimental purposes; for the preparation and illustration of reports and bulletins; Domestic water supply, farm buildings construction, 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 or such structures outside of the District of Columbia as may be necessary Outside rent.for experimental purposes only; for rent outside the District of Columbia; the employment of assistants and labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; and for supplies and all other necessary expenses, $244,290. Surplus war explosives.Distribution of, for agricultural usesVol. 42, p. 217.The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend not to exceed $15,000 of the administrative fund provided by the Federal Aid Road Act of July 11, 1916, as amended, for supervising the preparation, distribution, and use of picric acid, trinitrotoluol, trojan 997powder, and such other surplus war explosives as may’ be made available for agricultural purposes, independently or in cooperation with agricultural colleges and other agencies, and for investigating and reporting upon the results obtained from the use of the explosives: *Provided*, That expenditures hereunder shall be reimbursed*Provisos*.Reimbursement from activities receiving. to the administrative fund by charge to other Federal activities, agricultural colleges, or other agencies to which the explosives are distributed: *Provided further*, That hereafter, the Secretary of AgricultureEngineering services for other Federal branches from their appropriations. is authorized upon the request of any branch of the Federal Government, to perform any engineering service in connection with the survey, construction, maintenance, or improvement of roads, payment of the salaries and expenses of employees so engaged and of the cost of transportation, repairs, and replacements of equipment and supplies of the Department of Agriculture used in such work to be made by transfer of funds in the manner provided by sectionTransfer of funds.Vol. 41, p. 613. 7 of the Act approved May 21, 1920, (Forty-first Statutes, page 613). Total, Bureau of Public Roads, $457,170, of which amount not toServices in the District. exceed $206,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICSAgricultural Economics Bureau. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. For salaries and the employment of labor in the city of WashingtonExpenses specified. 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: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, includingChief of Bureau, and office personnel. the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $271,750. To investigate and encourage the adoption of improved methodsFarm management and practice.*Proviso*.Cost of producing staples. of farm management and farm practice, $362,956: *Provided*, That of this amount $150,000 may be used in ascertaining the cost of production of the principal staple agricultural products. For acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United StatesDistributing acquired information of farm products, marketing, etc. useful information on subjects connected with the marketing, handling, utilization, grading, transportation, and distributing of farm and nonmanufactured food products and the purchasing of farm supplies, including the demonstration and promotion of the use ofPromoting classification standards. uniform standards of classification of American farm products throughout the world, including scientific and technical research into American-grown cotton and its by-products and their present andCotton and by-products research. potential uses including new and additional commercial and scientific uses for cotton and its by-products, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the department. State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the marketing, handling, utilization, grading, transportation, and distributing ofCost of retail marketing of meat, etc. farm and food products, and for investigation of the economic costs of retail marketing of meat and meat products, $596,780: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That practical forms of the grades recommended or promulgated by the Secretary for wool and mohair may be sold under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, and the receipts therefrom deposited in the Treasury to die credit of miscellaneous receipts. For collecting, compiling, abstracting, analyzing, summarizing,General agricultural and livestock information.Designated data. interpreting, and publishing data relating to agriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, yield, grades, staples of cotton, stock, and value of farm crops, and numbers, grades, and value of 998Cooperation.livestock and livestock products on farms, in cooperation with the Extension Service and other Federal, State, and local agencies, $787,755: *Provided*, That $89,660 shall be available for collecting *Provisos*.Disseminating information of world supply and need of American agricultural products, etc.and disseminating to American producers, importers, exporters, and other interested persons information relative to the world supply of and need for American agricultural products, marketing methods, conditions, prices, and other factors, a knowledge of which is necessary to the advantageous disposition of such products in foreign countries, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the transportation, marketing, and distribution of farm and food products, including the purchase of such books and periodicals as may be necessary in connection with Intended cotton acreage planting excluded.this work: *Provided further*, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any expense incident to ascertaining, collating, or publishing a report stating the intentions of farmers as to the acreage to be planted in cotton: *Provided further*, Not available for specified cotton estimates.That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for the preparation of mid-monthly reports of cotton estimates for the months of July, August, and November. Forms of wool and mohair grade to be sold. Perishable farm products.Certifying conditions of shipments of, at central markets.For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and certify to shippers and other interested parties the class, quality, and/or condition of cotton and fruits, vegetables, poultry, butter, hay, and other perishable farm products when offered for interstate shipment or when received at such important central markets as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached therefrom, 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*, That certificates issued by the authorized agents of the departments shall be received in ail *Proviso*.Legal effect of certificates.courts of the United States as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained, $388,455. Livestock, dairy, agricultural, etc., products.Collecting, distributing, etc., information of market condition of designated.For collecting, publishing, and distributing, by telegraph, mail, or otherwise, timely information on the market supply and demand, commercial movement, location, disposition, quality, condition, and market prices of livestock, meats, fish, and animal products, dairy and poultry products, fruits and vegetables, peanuts and their products, grain, hay, feeds, and seeds, and other agricultural products, independently and in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, purchasing and consuming organizations, and persons engaged in the production, transportation, marketing, and distribution of farm and food products, $1,054,355. Cooperative marketing.Administering provisions for the division of.*Ante*, p. 802.Cooperative Marketing: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the Act entitled “An Act to create a division of cooperative marketing in the Department of Agriculture; to provide for the acquisition and dissemination of information pertaining to cooperation; to promote the knowledge of cooperative principles and practices; to provide for calling advisers to counsel with the Secretary of Agriculture on cooperative activities; to authorize cooperative associations to acquire, interpret, and disseminate crop and market information, and for other purposes,” approved July 2, 1926, $220,440. In all, salaries and general expenses, $3,682,491. enforcement of the united states cotton futures act and united states cotton standards actCotton Futures and Cotton Standards Acts. Enforcement expenses.Vol. 39, p. 476; Vol. 40, p. 1351.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the United States Cotton Futures Act, as amended March 9994, 1919, and to carry into effect the provisions of the United StatesVol. 42, p. 1517. Cotton Standards Act, approved March 4, 1923, 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 ofOutside rent. the District of Columbia, that may be necessary in executing the provisions of these Acts, including such means as may be necessaryAgreements to effect use of standards, arbitration of disputes, etc., in foreign countries. for effectuating agreements heretofore or hereafter made with cotton associations, cotton exchanges, and other cotton organizations in foreign countries, for the adoption, use, and observance of universal standards of cotton classification, for the arbitration or settlement of disputes with respect thereto, and for the preparation, distribution, inspection, and protection of the practical forms or copies thereof under such agreements, $202,800. enforcement of the united states grain standards actGrain Standards Act. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect theEnforcement expenses.Vol. 39, p. 482. provisions of the United States Drain Standards Act, including rent outside of the District of Columbia and the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $710,140. administration of the united states warehouse actWarehouse Act. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect theAdministration expenses.Vol. 39, p. 486; Vol. 42, p. 1282. provisions of the United States Warehouse Act, including the payment of such rent outside of the District of Columbia and the employment of such persons and means as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $241,820. enforcement of the standard container actStandard Container Act. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the ActEnforcement expenses.Vol. 39, p. 673. entitled “An Act to fix standards for Climax baskets for grapes and other fruits and vegetables, and to fix standards for baskets and other containers for small fruits, berries, and vegetables, and for other purposes,” approved August 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, $5,000, completion of wool workWool clip of 1918. To enable the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to complete theCompleting the distribution among owners of money collected. work of the domestic wool section of the War Industries Board and to enforce 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, $3,000, and to continue as far as practicable, the distribution among the growers of the wool clip of 1918 of all sums heretofore or hereafter collected or recovered with or without suit by the Government from all persons, firms, or corporations which handled any part of the wool clip of 1918. center market, district of columbiaCenter Market, D. C. Operation and Management: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture,Operation and management expenses.Vol. 41, p. 1441. in carrying out the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 1441), to pay for ice, elec1000tricity, gas, fuel, travel, stationery, printing, telegrams, telephones, labor, supplies, materials, equipment, miscellaneous expenses, necessary repairs and alterations, to be reimbursed by any person for *Provisos*.Purchases for, without regard to Supply Committee awards.whose account any such expenditure may be made: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may purchase necessary supplies and equipment for use at Center Market, without regard to awards made by General Supply Committee; to continue the employment of the necessary persons under the conditions in existence at the time of the taking over of the property by the Secretary of Fund for charges, etc.Agriculture, with such changes thereof as he may find necessary; to provide a fund for the payment of freight, express, drayage, and other charges and claims against the commodities accepted for storage, and to require reimbursement thereof with interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum under such rules as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe, and to remove, sell, or otherwise dispose of such commodities held as security for such payment when such reimbursement is not made when due, all reimbursement of such payments and all receipts from such disposition of commodities to be credited to such fund and to be reexpendable therefrom; and to use such other means as the Secretary of Agriculture may find necessary for the proper occupancy and use by the Claims for storage loss or damages.Government and its tenants of said property, $171,000: *Provided*, That not more than $500 may be used for the payment of claims for the loss of or damage to goods while in storage in Center Market that have accrued or may accrue at any time during the operation thereof by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe. Total, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $5,016,251, of which Services in the District.amount not to exceed $1,881,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF HOME ECONOMICSEconomics Bureau. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. Chief of Bureau, and office personnel.For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $17,281. Utilizing farm products in the home, etc.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, and to disseminate useful information on this Employment of labor.subject, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $109,963. Total, Bureau of Home Economics, $127,244, of which amount Services in the District.not to exceed $117,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARDFederal Horticultural Board. salaries and general expensesGeneral expenses. Expenses specified.For salaries and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, furniture, supplies, traveling expenses, rent outside of the District of Columbia, and for all other necessary expenses, as follows: Administration and office personnel.For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $49,730. Enforcing nursery plant quarantine, etc.Vol. 37, pp. 315, 850.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, entitled “An 1001Act to regulate the importation of nursery stock and other plants and plant products; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant diseases and insect pests; to permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes ”; to prevent the movementPreventing entry of Mexican cotton and conttonseed. of cotton and cotton seed 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; to inspect, under such rules and regulations as the SecretaryInspecting and certifying of exports. of Agriculture may prescribe, domestic fresh fruits, vegetables, and seeds, and nursery stock and other plants for propagation, when offered for export, and to certify to shippers and interested parties as to the freedom of such products from injurious plant diseases and insect pests according to the sanitary requirements of foreign countries, and to make such reasonable charges and to use such means as may be necessary to accomplish this object: *Provided*, That any*Proviso*.Receipts for cleaning, etc., to be deposited in the Treasury. moneys received in payment 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 and such inspection and certification shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, $468,180. In all, salaries and general expenses, $517,910. eradication of pink bollwormPink boil worm of cotton. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergencyEmergency appropriation for eradication of. 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, $242,800, as follows: To make surveys to determine the actual distribution of the pinkCooperation with Mexico in exterminating, etc. bollworm in Mexico and to exterminate local infestations in Mexico near the border of the United States, in cooperation with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities, $8,860; To investigate in Mexico or elsewhere the pink bollworm as aInvestigations for control. basis for control measures, $5,000; To conduct surveys and inspections in Texas or in any other StateSurveys, inspection, etc., in United States. 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 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 cooperateCooperation with Mexican authorities for extermination. 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, $228,940: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Reimbursing nonproduction losses. That not to exceed $200,000 may be available for reimbursement to cotton-growing States for expenses incurred by them in connection with losses due to enforced nonproduction of cotton in certain zones in the manner and upon the terms and conditions set forth in SenateVol. 42, p. 158. Joint Resolution Numbered 72, approved August 9, 1921: *Provided further*, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall beNo pay for crops, etc., destroyed. used to pay the cost or value of crops or other property injured or destroyed. eradication of the parlatoria date scaleParlatoria date scale. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergencyEmergency appropriation for exterminating. caused by the existence of the Parlatoria date scale in California, 1002Arizona, or any other State, and to provide means for the extermination of this insect in California, Arizona, or elsewhere in the State cooperation.United States, in cooperation with the States concerned, $19,000. thurberia weevil quarantineThurberia weevil. Quarantine for preventing spread of.Vol. 37, pp. 315, 854.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a quarantine to prevent the spread of the Thurberia weevil, under the Federal Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, cooperation with the States, and all other necessary expenses, $32,800. Services in the District.Total, Federal Horticultural Board, $812,510, of which amount not to exceed $157,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. ENFORCEMENT OF PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACTPackers and Stockyards Act. Enforcement expenses.Vol. 42, p. 159.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921, $420,000, of which amount not to exceed $125,000 may be *Proviso*.Bonds from agencies and dealers.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may require reasonable bonds from every market agency and dealer, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to secure the performance of their obligations, and whenever, after due notice and hearing, the Secretary finds any registrant is insolvent or has violated any provision Suspension for violations.of said Act he may issue an order suspending such registrant for a reasonable specified period. Such order of suspension shall take effect within not less than five days, unless suspended or modified or set aside by the Secretary of Agriculture or a court of competent jurisdiction. ENFORCEMENT OF THE GRAIN FUTURES ACTGrain Futures Act. Enforcement expenses.Vol. 42, p. 998.Services in the District.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Grain Futures Act, approved September 21, 1922, $135,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. FOOD, DRUG, AND INSECTICIDE ADMINISTRATIONFood, Drug, and Insecticide Administration.General expenses. salaries and general expenses Expenses specified.For all necessary 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 Outside rent.results of such investigations; and for rent outside of the District of Columbia for carrying out the investigations and work herein authorized as follows: Chief of administration, and office personnel.For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of administration and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $98,000. Collaboration with other departments.For collaboration with other departments of the Government desiring chemical investigations and whose heads request the Secretary of Agriculture for such assistance, and for other miscellaneous work, $15,725. 1003 For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect thePure food inspection, etc.Vol. 34, p. 768. 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”; to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia and development of methodsRevision of Pharmacopœia. of analysis, and for investigating the character of the chemical and physical tests which are applied to American food products inExamining foreign tests of American food products. 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, $918,780: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Foreign travel. That not more than $4,280 shall be used for travel outside of the United States. For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect theImpure tea imports.Expenses, preventing, etc.Vol. 29, p. 604; Vol. 41, p. 712. provisions of the Act approved March 2, 1897, entitled “An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” as amended, including payment of compensation and expenses of the members of the board appointed under section 2 of the Act and all other necessary officers and employees, $41,055. For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effectNaval Stores Act.Vol. 42, p. 1435. the provisions of the Naval Stores Act of March 3, 1923, $37,825. For enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect theInsecticides and fungicides.Preventing sale, etc., of adulterated.Vol. 36, p. 331. provisions 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,” $200,000. Hereafter the examinations of specimens of foods, drugs, insecticides,Examination of specimens of foods, insecticides, etc., by direction of the Secretary.Vol. 34, p. 169; Vol. 36, p. 332. Paris greens, lead arsenates, and fungicides provided for by section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, and by section 4 of the Insecticide Act of 1910, shall be made in the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration or in such other branches of the Department of Agriculture as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct. Total, Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration, $1,311,385, ofServices in the District. which amount not to exceed $419,871 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. INTERCHANGE OF APPROPRIATIONSInterchange of appropriations. Not to exceed 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts for theAllowed for miscellaneous expenses of bureaus. 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. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMSMiscellaneous items. forest fire cooperationForest fire prevention, etc. For cooperation with the various States or other appropriateCooperation with States, etc., for protection of timber and cut-over lands. agencies in forest fire prevention and suppression and the protection of timbered and cut-over lands in accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded 1004Vol. 43, p. 653.areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote continuous production of timber on lands chiefly valuable therefor,” approved June 7, 1924, including also the study Tax laws and timber insurance.of the effect of tax laws and the investigation of timber insurance as provided in section 3 of said Act, $1,000,000, of which $37,000 Services, etc., in the District.shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $3,000 for the purchase of supplies and equipment required for the purposes of said Act in the District of Columbia. cooperative farm forestryFarm forestry. Cooperation with States, etc., to assist farm owners in wood lots, timber crops, etc.For cooperation with appropriate officials of the various States or with other suitable agencies to assist the owners of farms in establishing, improving, and renewing wood lots, shelter belts, windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth, and in growing and renewing useful Vol. 43, p. 654.timber crops under the provisions of section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, or the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor,” approved June 7, Services in the District.1924, $60,000, of which amount not to exceed $3,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. cooperative distribution of forest planting stockForest planting stock. Cooperation with States for forest tree seeds, etc., for planting denuded or nonforested lands.For cooperation with the various States in the procurement, production, and distribution of forest-tree seeds and plants in establishing windbreaks, shelter belts, and farm wood lots upon denuded or nonforested lands within such cooperating States, under Vol. 43, p. 654.the provisions of section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor,” approved June 7, 1924, $75,000, of which amount Services in the District.not to exceed $2,900 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. acquisition of additional forest landsAdditional forest lands. Acquiring, under Forest Conservation Act.Vol. 36, p. 961; Vol. 43, p. 653.For the acquisition of additional lands at headwaters of navigable streams, to be expended under the provisions of the Act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 961), as amended, $1,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $31,000 may be expended Services in the District.for personal services and supplies and equipment in the District of Columbia. experiments in livestock production in southern united statesCane sugar and cotton districts. Cooperation with States, etc., for livestock production in.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 livestock production in the cane-sugar and cotton districts of the United States, $43,930. experiments in dairying and livestock production in western united statesWestern irrigated, etc., lands. Dairying and meat-production experiments.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct investigations and experiments in problems connected with the establishment of dairying and meat-product ion enterprises on the semiarid and 1005irrigated lands of the western United States, including the purchase of livestock and the employment of necessary persons and means in the city of Washington, and elsewhere, $43,610. dairying and livestock experiment station, mandan, north dakotaMandan, N. Dak. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisionsEstablishing dairy and livestock station at. of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a dairying and livestock experiment station at Mandan, North Dakota,”*Ante*, p. 840. approved July 3, 1926, $25,000, to be immediately available. passenger-carrying vehiclesPassenger vehicles. That not to exceed $150,000 of the lump stun appropriations hereinAllowance for, from lump sum appropriations. 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 the field work of the Department of Agriculture outside the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not to exceed $45,000 of this amount*Provisos*.Purchase and use 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*,Purchases to replace vehicles transferred from War Department, for roads, etc.Vol. 42, p. 212. That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend, from the funds provided for carrying out the provisions of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 212), not to exceed $40,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to replace such vehicles heretofore acquired and used by the Secretary of Agriculture in the construction and maintenance of national forest roads or other roads constructed under his direct supervision which are or may become unserviceable, including the replacement of not to exceed two such vehicles for use in the administrative work of the Bureau of Public Roads in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That expenditures fromLimit for maintenance, upkeep, etc. appropriations contained in this Act for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel and lubricants, on any one vehicle used by the Department of Agriculture shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case more than $500: *Provided further*,Report to Congress. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall, on the first day of each regular session of Congress, make a report to Congress showing the amount expended under the provisions of this paragraph during the preceding fiscal year: *Provided further*, That the Secretary ofExchanges authorized for new vehicles. Agriculture may exchange motor-propelled and horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, road equipment, and boats, and parts, accessories, tires, or equipment thereof, in whole or in part payment for vehicles, tractors, road equipment, or boats, or parts, accessories, tires, or equipment of such vehicles, tractors, road equipment, or boats, purchased by him. eradication of foot-and-mouth and other contagious diseases of animalsContagious diseases of animals. Emergency appropriation for eradication.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 livestock industry of the country, he may expend, in the city of Washington or elsewhere,Use of unexpended balances.Vol. 43, p. 851. the sum of $100, together with any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for this purpose, in the arrest and eradication of any such disease, including the payment of claims grow1006Pay for destroyed diseased animate.ing out of past and future purchases and destruction, in cooperation with the States, of animals affected by or exposed to, or of materials contaminated by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found and irrespective of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations: *Provided*, That the payment for animals *Provisos*.Appraisement of meat, eta, values.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 the United States Government for any animals shall Unexpended balance reappropriated.not exceed one-half of any such appraisements: *Provided further*, That the sum of $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $3,500,000, contained in the Second Deficiency Vol. 43, p. 602.Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, for the eradication of the foot-and-mouth disease and other contagious or Eradicating European fowl pest, etc.infectious diseases of animals, is hereby made available during the fiscal year 1928 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to control and eradicate the European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry. mileage rates for motor vehiclesTravel expenses. Allowance for, by motor vehicles.Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, the Secretary of Agriculture shall find that the expenses of travel, including travel at official stations, can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for motor cycle or 7 cents per mi le for an automobile, used for necessary travel on official business. collection of seed-grain loansSeed-grain loans. Collection expenses.To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect moneys due the United States on account of loans made to farmers under the Vol. 41, p. 1347; Vol. 42, p. 467; Vol. 43, p. 110.seed-grain loan provisions of the Act of March 3, 1921, the Seed Grain Loan Act of March 20, 1922, and the Seed and Feed Loan Act of April 26, 1924, $10,000, of which amount not to exceed $7,190 may Services in the District.be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. special items forest roads and trailsFederal Highway Act. Roads and trails in forests.For carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act approved November 9, 1921, including not to exceed $47,000 Vol. 42, pp. 218, 660.Vol. 43, p. 889.for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $6,500,000, which sum is composed of $4,825,000, part of the sum of $7,500,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1927 by the Act approved February 12, 1925, and $1,675,000, part of the *Ante*, p. 530.amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1928 by the *Provisos*.Apportionment to States, etc.Act approved June 22, 1926: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall, upon the approval of this Act, apportion and prorate among the several States, Alaska, and Porto Rico, as provided in section 23 of said Federal Highway Act, the sum of $7,500,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, by the Approved projects deemed Federal contractual obligations.Act approved June 22, 1926: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Agriculture may incur obligations, approve projects, or enter into contracts under his apportionment and prorating of this authorization, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obli1007gation on the part of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: *Provided further*, That the appropriations heretofore,Payment of incurred obligations. herein, and hereafter made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 8 of the Act of July 11, 1916, and of section 23Vol. 39, p. 358.Vol. 42, pp. 218, 660.Vol. 43, pp. 889, 1326. of the Federal Highway Act of November 9, 1921, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligations created thereunder in any State or Territory: *Provided further*, That the total expendituresLimit, to any State or Territory. on account of any State or Territory shall at no time exceed its authorized apportionment: *Provided further*, That this appropriationStorage buildings authorized. shall be available for the construction of buildings necessary for the storage of equipment and supplies used for road and trail construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such building constructed shall not exceed $1,500. federal aid highway systemFederal aid highway system. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toCooperation with States in constructing rural post roads.Vol. 39, p. 355; Vol. 40, p. 1201; Vol. 42, pp. 660, 1157; Vol. 43, p. 889.Departmental service in the District.Use of annual allotments. provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,” approved July 11, 1916, and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of said Act as amended, including not to exceed $420,000 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $71,000,000 to remain available until expended, which sum is composed of $23,800,000, the remainder of the sum of $75,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and $47,200,000, part of the sum of $75,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927,Vol. 43, p. 889. by paragraph 1 of the Act approved February 12, 1925. Total, Department of Agriculture, $128,511,739. Approved, January 18, 1927.
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