586 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BUREAU OF STATISTICS. 



General expenses, Bureau of Statistics $115, G20 



Administrative expenses $24, 920 



Spo<iul field af;;ents 56,000 



State Stat ist ical a<>;ents 30, 200 



Special invest ijj^at ions 2,000 



Cost production, farm products 2, 000 



OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Agricultural exjteriment stations ($862,400) " $142, 400 



A<i;ri(ultural experiment stations $33,400 



Farmers' institutes 10, 000 



Station at Alaska 28, 000 



Station at Hawaii 28, 000 



Station at Porto Rico (including $5,000 for coffee investi- 

 gations) 28, 000 



Station at Island of Guam 15, 000 



Nutrition investigations 10, 000 



Irrigation investigations 70, 380 



Drainage investigations 78, 860 



OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS. 



General expenses, office of public roads $92, 980 



Road management $16, 000 



Investigating road building and maintenance 43, 000 



Road material 23, 280 



Administrative expenses 10, 700 



Total for main department, exclusive of Weather Bureau 

 and Forest Service 9, 294, 976 



WEATHER BUREAU. 



Salaries, Weather Bureau $206, 150 



Contingent expenses, Weather Bureau 25, 000 



General expenses, Weather Bureau 1, 293, 610 



Station salaries $620, 410 



Miscellaneous expenses 94, 000 



Instruments, etc 30, 000 



Sand Key Building 15, 000 



Rents and repairs 82, 500 



Traveling expenses 22, 000 



Telephoning and telegraphing 265, 700 



Line and cable repairs 4, 000 



Investigations and substations 120, 000 



Printing office 40, 000 



Total for Weather Bureau 1, 524, 760 



Grand total 15, 797, 636 



FISCAL AFFAIRS OF THE FOREST SERVICE. 



By the terms of General Order No. 138, dated January 15, 1910, 

 the Secretary of Agriculture placed the disbursino; and accounting 

 work of the Forest Service under the immediate supervision and 

 du'ection of the Chief of the Division of Accounts and Disbursements, 



"This includes $720,000 for state experiment stations under the regular appropria- 

 tion, to be paid through the Treasury Department. Congress also appropriated 

 $720,000 as a permanent appropriation for state experiment stations under the Adama 

 bill to be paid through the Treasury Department. Total to be paid through the 

 Treasury Department for state experiment stations, $1,440,000. 



