Table 3. Funds allocated for basic research by performing agricultural research organizations and by science categories, FY 1975.' 



ARS FS ERS SRS^\ FCS^^ States' 



Science Category Funds PCT Funds PCT Funds PCT Funds PCT Funds PCT 



Biological Sciences $66.7 46 $14.4 32 $132.3 38 



Animal -oriented 25.1 51 1.2 57 51.8 38 



Plant-oriented 32.1 41 13.0 30 67.2 35 



Human-oriented 4.8 65 .1 25 4.4 41 



Other 3.7 60 .1 83 8.9 57 



Chemistry /Physics 15.0 36 1 .8 41 11.8 37 



Engineering 5.5 22 1.5 17 5.3 23 



Environmental Sciences ... . 1.0 34 1.7 20 2.6 33 



Mathematics/Statistics 2 22 .6 50 a.1 23 1.1 33 



Economics 3 15 .4 9 $3.1 15 ''.I 7 5.4 19 



Other 1 30 .1 10 .1 10 ^A 71 3.6 12 



Agency Totals $87.8 41 $20.4 28 $3.2 15 ^.1 23 $162.1 34 



^.7 15 



$273.9 



35 



^Funds in millions of dollars; PCT = percent of total funds for each science 

 category expended for basic research. Figures may not add to totals iDecause 

 of rounding 



Source USDA 



^"States" includes Slate Agricultural Experiment Stations. State Forestry 

 Organizations. Colleges of 1890, and the Tuskegee Institute. 

 ■'Superscript "a" equals SRS only; superscript "b" equals FCS only 



are applicable to the control of human virus infec- 

 tions as well as animal virus infections. 



Bachrach. H. L. and J. Polatnick. 1967. Amino acid composi- 

 tion of three immunological types of foot-and-mouth disease 

 virus (.^1765). Proc. Society of Experimental Biol, and Medi- 

 cine, 124:465-469. 



Bachrach. H. L., D. M. Moore, P. D. McKercher and J. Po- 

 latnick. 1975. Immune and antibody responses to an isolated 

 capsid protein of foot-and-mouth disease viruses. Jour of 

 Immunology, 115: 16.^6-1641. 



Malheka, H.D. and H. L. Bachrach. 1975. N-terminal amino 

 acid sequences in the major capsid proteins of foot-and-mouth 

 disease virus types A, O, and C. Jour, of Virol., 16:1248-125.^. 



Okazaki, W., H. G. Purchase and B. R. Burmester. 1970. 

 Protection against Marek's disease by vaccination with a her- 

 pesvirus of turkeys. Avian Dis., 14:41.^-429. 



Purchase, H. G., R. L. Witter and W. Ikazaki. 1971. Vaccina- 

 tion against Marek's disease. Perspectives in Virology, 7:91- 

 110. Academic Press, Inc. New York, 



Improvement of Reproductive Performance in 

 Animals 



A successful procedure has been developed for 

 deep-freezing of swine semen allowing artificial 

 insemination to aid the swine industry to make 

 maximum use of superior sires. The process of 

 freezing has been improved whereby the required 

 number of sperm per insemination and the storage 

 volume per insemination has been reduced. Also, 

 a semen extender and a freezing method for poul- 



6 AGRICULTURE 



Table 4. Total actual and relative funding of basic agricultural 

 research by performing organization, FY 1968, 1972, and 

 1975. 



' Adjusted data (1972 = 100) for Government purchases of 

 goods and services, in Table B-3, "Implicit Price Deflators for 

 Gross National Product 1929-76." Economic Report of the 

 President transmitted to the Congress January 1977. 



^National Total includes a small amount of basic research 

 per formed by Farmer Cooperative Ssrvice and Statistical 

 Reporting Service, USDA. Total research performed by these 

 Agencies is very small. 



Source: USDA. 



