574 



ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



"Seacoast telegraph lino receipts'' arc covered into the Treasury 

 under act of March 8, 1883. (22 Stat. L., GIG.) 



In acknowledgment of each deposit of funds the Treasurer issues 

 to the depositor a dujilicate certificate of deposit. The number of 

 this certificate is entereil as part of the transaction, and tlie certificate 

 is filed in this Division. 



These moneys are for\\'ard(>d to the Division of Accounts and Dis- 

 bursements from the various Bureaus, Divisions, an<l Offices of the 

 Department, accompanied by a letter or specially printed form, in 

 duplicate, explaining from whence the money was derived. The 

 dui)licate is receipted by the Chief of tliis Division and returned to the 

 sender. The original is placed in the files of this Division as a voucher. 

 The amount received is entered in a ])ook witJi a description of the 

 transaction copied from the letter of transmittal. If in the form of 

 cash or ])Ostal money order, it is so stated in the entry, and if by 

 check or draft a minute description is given, with name of pavor, 



f)ayee, indorser, name of bank, number and date of check, etc. The 

 aw requires that money so received shall be deposited in the Treasury 

 within thirty days after its receipt by a Government officer. The 

 practice in this office is to deposit all sums as soon as practicable 

 after they are received unless of an insignificant amount. The Chief 

 of this Division, having no authority to do otherwise, accepts the 

 statements accompanying sums of money submitted to him, assuming 

 them to be in strict accordance with the facts. 



ACCOUNTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1908 FINALLY CLOSED. 



As required by section 5, legislative act, approved June 20, 1874 

 (18 Stat. L., 110-111), the unexpended balances of the appropria- 

 tions for the year 1908 were finally covered into the Treasury on June 

 30, 1910, and carried to the surplus fund, as follows: 



Amount of unexpended balances for fiscal year 1908 turned into the Treasury. 



Object. 



Salaries, Department of Agriculture, officers and 



clerks $9G9, 090 



Salaries, Department of Agriculture, extra labor 7, COO 



Contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture 



Library, Department of Agriculture 



BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry $892,200 



Diseases of domestic animals, Minnesota .'5, 000 



Animal breeding and feeding 50, 000 



Meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry (permanent 



appropriation) 



Eradicating cattle ticks, Bureau of Animal Industry, 1908 



Eradicating cattle ticks. Bureau of Animal Industry, 1907 and 

 1908 (appropriated $25,000, balance July 1, 1907).". 



BUREAU OP PLANT INDUSTRY. 



General expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, 1908 



General expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry $573,484.25 



Rent and repairs 11,295. 75 



Grain investigations 



Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds (includes 



$50,000, deficiency act) $252,000 



Foreign seed and plant introduction 30, 000 



Cotton boll weevil investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 1908 



BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY. 



Laboratory, Department of Agriculture 



Amount 

 appropriated 



]• $976, 090. 00 



47,000.00 

 12,500.00 



947,200.00 



Amount 

 disbursed. 



$947,454.88 



7, .592. 28 



40, 435. 97 



12, 498. 43 



878, 938. 39 



2,970.01 



49, 649. 15 



3,000,000.00 ! 2,725,034.27 

 125,000.00 122,444.15 



10,811.90 



10,000.00 

 \ 584,780.00 I 

 40,000.00 



10,811.90 



9, 992. 61 



572,635.62 



11,295.75 



39,862.20 



} 288,000.00 { ^f,'^^\_l 



110,000.00 



650,000.00 



109,513.44 

 611,925.10 



Amount 

 unexpended. 



$21,635.12 



7.72 



564. 03 



1.57 



13,261.61 



2,029.99 



350. 85 



274,965.73 

 2,555.85 



Exhausted. 



7.39 



848. 63 



Exhausted. 



137. 80 



2,135.18 

 512. 62 



486. 56 

 38,074.90 



