372 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



WORK OF THE YEAR. 



APPROPRIATIONS, EXPENDITURES, ETC. 



To carry on the regular work of the Department of Agriculture,, 

 consisting of its investigative, regulatory, and other routine activi- 

 ties, and to administer the cooperative agricultural extension work, 

 Federal highway and forest road and trail construction, and other 

 special activities devolving upon the department by operation of 

 law, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, Congress appropri- 

 ated or authorized for expenditure S135,046,918. This sum includes 

 ^36,404,259 carried in the agricultural appropriation act for that 

 fiscal year; supplemental appropriations of $1,627,875 contained in 

 various deficiency appropriation acts; the permanent annual appro- 

 priations of $3,000,000 for the enforcement of the meat inspection 

 act, and $4,080,000 for extension work in agriculture and home eco- 

 nomics in cooperation with the States; the appropriation of $1,500,000 

 provided by the special act for making seed grain loans to farmers in 

 the drought-stricken areas of the Northwest; $75,000,000 for the con- 

 struction of highways in cooperation with the States, and $6,000,000 

 for road and trail building within or adjacent to the national forests; 

 $3,137,882 for payment of the increase of compensation to the em- 

 ployees of the department; $725,000 for printing and binding; 

 $2,941,375 which became available from national-forest receipts and 

 Forest Service cooperative funds for cooperative work, road and trail 

 construction, refunds to depositors, and payments to the States for 

 the benefit of roads and schools; and $630,527 in special appropria- 

 tions and in allotments transferred from other departments under 

 section 7, fortifications act of May 21, 1920, for work to be done at 

 their request by the Department of Agriculture. In addition to these 

 appropriations made for the fiscal year 1922, unexpended balances of 

 appropriations made for prior years totaling $225,137,391 remained 

 available for expenditure during this year. The largest portion of 

 these unexpended balances consisted of $193,093,859 in Federal aid 

 road-construction funds and $3,806,759 in forest road and trail build- 

 ing appropriations, available until expended and encumbered within 

 $8,500,000 of their total through cooperative road building agree- 

 ments with States, counties, and communities; $9,936,328 remaining 

 from the war emergency revolving fund for the purchase and distribu- 

 tion of nitrate of soda, and $5,680,380 from the revolving fund for 

 stimulating agriculture through the purchase and distribution of seeds 

 during the war period, the bulk of both these revolving funds being 

 finally transferred to the surplus fund of the Treasury m December, 

 1921. The remainder of the unexpended balances available for ex- 

 penditure during the fiscal year 1922 consisted of $5,478,058 in bal- 

 ances under the various appropriations contained in the agricultural 

 appropriation act for the fiscal year 1921 and $802,868 under other 

 appropriations for that year; $3,736,680 in balances remaining from 

 appropriations provided by the agricultural act for the fiscal year 

 1921, and $23,750 from other appropriations for that year; and 

 $1,978,709 in unexpended balances of continuing appropriations from 

 prior years remaining available until expended. The total amount 

 availp,ble from all sources for expenditure during the fiscal year 1922 

 was therefore $360,184,309. 



