12 Twenty-Second Annual Report of the 



ORGANIZATION AND FINANCES 



The appropriations made by the Legislature for the mainte- 

 nance of this Department for the fiscal year ending September 

 30, 1915, added to the balance on hand available for the work of 

 the year, amounted to $1,639,255.54. Of this amount $250,000 

 was for distribution to agricultural societies in payment of premi- 

 ums for promotion of agricultural production; $280,306.25 for 

 glanders indemnities ; $152,416.50 for tuberculosis indemnities; 

 $25,000 interest on tuberculosis and glanders claims from March 

 10, 1914 ; $300,000 for foot-and-mouth indemnities and expenses, 

 leaving a balance for the direct purposes of the Department of 

 $507,658.76. Of this amount $1,904.69 lapsed on official and 

 graded employees' salaries, leaving an available balance of 

 $505,664.07. 



The expenditures of moneys during the year, including the 

 distribution to agricultural societies, indemnities — glanders and 

 tuberculosis claims and interest thereon, and foot-and-mouth in- 

 demnities and expenses — and the general expenses of the De- 

 partment are as follows: 



Official Salaries $21,999.99 



Chemists' Salaries 15,492.36 



Graded Employees 224,665.32 



Agricultural Information 1,999.84 



Bureau of Statistics 5,440.18 



Butter Substitutes 7.425.92 



Chemical Apparatus 2,994.95 



Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs 7,003.83 



Commissioner's Expenses 2,000.00 



Credit Union 12,399.36 



Dairy Products 18,616.55 



Diseases of Animals 53,350.95 



Suppression of Insect Pests 46,068.89 



Expenses of Litigation 218.19 



Expenses 43,422.52 



Eradication of Brown-Tail Moth 1,472.46 



Farm Bureaus 20,783.47 



Farmers' Institutes 31.865.79 



