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Of the total expenditure of $40,200,000 for the regular work of 

 the department, approximately $9,000,000, or 22.5 per cent, was 

 used for research; $2,400,000, or 6 per cent, for extension; $20,- 

 500.,000, or 51 per cent, for service and regulatory activities; and 

 $8,300,000, or 20.5 per cent, for campaigns for the control or eradi- 

 cation of various animal and plant diseases and pests. 



DIRECT INCOME TO GOVERNMENT IN CONNECTION WITH WORK OF 

 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FISCAL YEAR 1923. 



Incident to the department's work during the fiscal year 1923, 

 direct receipts aggregating $9,986,908 were covered into the Treas- 

 ury, and fines were imposed and judgments recovered by the courts 

 amounting to $247,895.57 in connection with the enforcement by 

 tlie department of the regulatory acts which devolve upon it for 

 administvation and execution, as follows: 



Receipts : 



Deposited to credit of miscellaneous receipts 

 fund- 

 Prom business on the national forests— $4, 807, 249. 07 

 From other sources 769, 655. 48 



$5, 576, 904. 55 



Deposited to credit of miscellaneous receipts 



fund but subsequently appropriated as spe- 

 cial funds for use of Forest Service — 

 Ten per cent of net receipts from busi- 

 ness on the national forests, for forest 



road and traU construction in 1924 528, 569. 06 



Contributions from private sources, used 

 mainly for the construction of forest 



roads and trails 1, 517, 467. 46 



2, 046, 036. .52 



Deposited to credit of appropriations for regular work of 



department 402, 588. .58 



Deposited to credit of appropriations admin- 

 istered by but not used in prosecuting 

 regular work of department — 



Reimbursement for cost of distributing 

 surplus war materials to States for use 



in road-construction work $573, 183. 95 



Repayments by farmers of seed-grain 

 loans 1, 388, 194. 40 



1, 961, 378. 35 



Total receipts 9, 986, 908. 00 



Fines imposed and judgments recovered by the coui'ts in connec- 

 tion with violations of statutes intrusted to Department of 

 Agriculture for enforcement 247,895.57 



Total direct income to Government resulting from 

 activities of Department of Agriculture 10. 234, 803. 57 



