132 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



All accounts for the fiscal year 1908 havin<^ been settled, the 

 unexpended balance of ai)propriations for that year, amounting to 

 $442,538.63, was covered into tlio Treasury on June 30, 1910. The 

 account for the liscal year 1909 is still open. 



The amount estimated for the fiscal year 1912 in the annual esti- 

 mates for the regular appropriation bill is $16,693,686, which includes 

 $1,440,000 for agricultural experiment stations and $400,000 for 

 the enforcement of the so-called insecticide act of April 26, 1910. 

 In addition there will be a permanent appropriation of $3,000,000 

 for meat inspection and $460,000 for printing and binding to be 

 done under the Public Printer, making a grand total of $20,153,686. 



The following are the more important points wherein the estimates 

 for the fiscal year 1912 differ from the appropriations for the fiscal 

 year 1911 : 



(1) In compliance with the provisions of the act making appro- 

 priations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1911, requiring that detailed estimates shall be submitted 

 for all executive officers, clerks, and employees below the grade of 

 clerk, 2,989 employees, whose salaries aggregate $3,221,930, have been 

 transferred from the lump-fund appropriations to the statutory rolls 

 of the various Bureaus, at the same rate in each instance. The 

 lump-fund rolls have been reduced accordingly, with the exception 

 of the permanent appropriation ''Meat Inspection, Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry," from which appropriation 543 employees, aggregat- 

 ing $480,020, have been transferred to the statutory roll, but tho 

 limip fund for meat inspection has not been reduced, as it is a per- 

 manent appropriation and as additional money is needed for meat- 

 inspection work. 



(2) An estimate of $65,000 is submitted under the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry for the purchase of land for animal quarantine sta- 

 tions at the ports of Baltimore and Boston and for making improve- 

 ments thereon. 



(3) Under the Forest Service, the appropriation for Improvement 

 of the National Forests has been consolidated with General Expenses. 

 The provision under Forest Service in connection wuth refunds has 

 been broadened to cover certain cases which the Comptroller of the 

 Treasury has decided can not be refunded under the present law. 

 The separate appropriations for the various National Forests have 

 been discontinued and an estimate submitted for each of the six 

 districts in which those forests are embraced. 



(4) Under the Office of Experiment Stations there has been included 

 in General Expenses the regular appropriation of $720,000 under the 

 Adams Act, the Comptroller of the Treasury having held that the 

 permanent appropriation therefor expires by limitation with the 

 close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911. A new item for a 

 Journal of Agricultural Research, $20,000, is submitted. 



