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The Pan-American Congress is to be held next year at Buffalo, N. 

 y., and the South Carolina and West Indian Exposition at Charleston, 

 S. C. It would be very beneficial to have this Office make some road 

 exhibit at each of these places, and I recommend an appropriation of 

 12,000 for the purpose. 



We shall also need improved machinery of various kinds, and I 

 request an approx^riation of $18,000 for this iDurpose. 



The increased correspondence of the Office makes it necessary to 

 have a skilled and experienced stenographer, for which I recommend 

 an appropriation of $1,200. 



During the past years the usefulness of this Office has been some- 

 what impaired by insufficient approjDriations. The S'lm of $10,000, 

 which was formerly appropriated for this Office, is none too much 

 for the ordinary work which presents itself in regular course. In 

 addition to this sum there should be at least $2,000 appropriated for 

 the purpose of making experiments and traction tests with wicle-tire 

 wagons and also to assist agricultural colleges in object-lesson work 

 in the various States. 



I therefore recommend tliat the sum of $54,320 be appropriated for 

 the use of this Office for the j'ear 1902, as per estimates submitted. 



