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NEW BUILDINGS FOR WEATHER BUREAU STATIONS. 



The sum of $50,000 is appropriated for 1903, for the purchase of sites 

 aud the erection of not less than six buildings for use as Weather 

 Bureau observatories; $40,000 is appropriated for same year for the 

 purchase and construction of cables and land lines to connect the 

 Farallone Islands, California, with the mainland, and Womans Key, 

 or Sand Key, Florida, with Key West, Fla., and "the sum of fifteen 

 thousand dollars * * * jg appropriated for the purpose of con- 

 structing, maintainiiig, repairing, and operating, under the direction 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture, telegraph, cable, or telephone lines 

 between Glenhaven, Michigan, and South Manitou Island, Lake Mich- 

 igan, and for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of 

 Storm-warning stations at those points." 



ADDITIONAL LAND AT BETHESDA, MD. 



The appropriation for the Bureau of Animal Industry for 1903 pro- 

 vides "that not to exceed ten thousand dollars of the amount hereby 

 appropriated may be used to purchase additional land for the Bureau 

 experiment station at Bethesda, Maryland." Negotiations are now in 

 progress for the purchase of 30 acres of land adjoining the present 

 station, which, if secured, will provide a total area for the station of 

 50 acres. 



SEED WAREHOUSE. 



Of the amount appropriated for the purchase and distribution of 

 valuable seeds, 1903, $10,000 may be used for "the erection of a suit- 

 able seed warehouse on the Department grounds for receiving, stor- 

 ing, cleaning, and jjroperly preparing the seed handled by the Depart- 

 ment." Plans and specifications have been prepared and bids 

 invited for the erection of a building in accordance with this provision 

 of the act, but no contract has yet been awarded. 



BUILDINGS UNDER LEASE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WITH 



ANNUAL RENTAL. 



The amount appropriated for rental for the several branches of the 

 Department in the District of Columbia for 1903 is $21,700, against 

 $12,600 for 1902, being an increase of $10,200 per year, as follows: 



Bureaus and Divisions. 



Bureau of Chemistry, laboratory and offices, 200 Fourteenth street SW 



Bureau of Animal Industry, laboratory and offices, 1363 B street SW 



Bureau of Soils, laboratory and offices, 213 and 214 Thirteenth street SW 



Bureau of Forestry, offices, Atlantic Building 



Bureau of Plant Industry : 



Vegetable Pathology and Physiology, laboratories and offices, 1306 B 

 street SW _' 



Botany, laboratory and offices 



Division of Publications, document rooms, 1304 B street S W 



Division of Seeds, warerooms, Thirteen-and-a-half street S W 



Total 



1902. 



$2,500 

 1,800 

 1,400 



2,000 



1,400 

 1,000 

 2,500 



12,600 



1903. 



S2,500 

 1,800 

 2,000 

 6,000 



.3,000 

 3,000 

 1,400 

 2,000 



21,700 



PLANS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING. 



Five thousand dollars was appropriated in 1902 to enable the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture to have prepared plans and specifications for an 

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