548 ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Inspection work will be continued as thoroughly as possible in the 

 absence of a national law, and in the same manner in which it wa? 

 carried on during the past year. 



In apiculture the work in progress will not be completed for sev- 

 eral years, and the same investigations, therefore, will be continued. 



PLANS FOR WORK RECOMMENDED FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 



30, 1912. 



It is hoped that it will have appeared from this report and the 

 ones preceding that the Bureau is accomplishing good practical re- 

 sults, and that naturally its opportunities should be increased. The 

 writer has no hesitation, therefore, in view of plans in sight, in asking 

 for an increase to the lump fund appropriation of $54,750. It is 

 proposed to expend $3G,000 of this increase in adding to the funds 

 devoted to the investigation of insects injurious to forests. The prac- 

 tical results of this work as displayed in this and the other reports 

 have been noticeable. Until the past year or two the small allotment 

 devoted to this work was sufficient to meet the requirements of the 

 field work, which has been directed toward the determination of the 

 principal insect depredations and practical methods of control. This, 

 however, has been accomplished, and it is desired to render greater 

 service in practical results in demonstration work on a large scale. 

 More experts should be employed, and sufficient means should be 

 given the service to enable it to do its part in the prompt and effec- 

 tive manner required to command the confidence and support that 

 is so essential in securing the effective cooperation of the other 

 branches of the Government service and of private timber owners. 

 Ten thousand dollars of the increase asked for will be devoted to the 

 important problem of the alfalfa weevil, concerning which some in- 

 formation is given in this report. This money should be spent in 

 cooperation with the state authorities of Utah and the other States 

 which will be involved in all probability before the beginning of the 

 fiscal year 1912. With the remainder of the increase recommended, 

 it is proposed to devote $3,000 to the investigation of southern field 

 crops, especially sugar cane and rice, in addition to the sums already 

 allotted to that purpose ; to give $3,750 to further increase the facili- 

 ties of investigations of insects injurious to truck crops, and $2,000 

 increase to the investigations being carried on against bee diseases. 



It is also respectfully urged that the salary of the Chief of the 

 Bureau be increased to $5,000. The importance and scope of the 

 work connected with the Bureau seem such as to justify this increase. 



