64 EEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



note that the Comptroller will uot reeetU; from his construction of the law that 

 the act of Congress approved March 1(>. inOO, commonly known as " The Adams 

 Act," appropriates no money for the fiscal year 1906, and that the item of .fo.OOO 

 is not availahh' until the fiscal year 1007, with an increase each year for five 

 years until the year 1012, when the appropriation will be $15,000. It was the 

 understanding of the Department, and this understanding was general among 

 the experiment stations, that the bill as passed appropriated $5,000 for the fiscal 

 year 1906, and a good many of the stations will he handicapped if this money, 

 is not made available. 



In this connection I inclose a provision which, if added to the appropriation 

 bill for the Department, will make the sum of $5,000 available for the fiscal 

 year 1906. 



Very truly, yours, • (Signed) James Wilson, 



Secretary. 



Hon. Redfield Proctor, 



United States Senate, WusliiiKjton, D. C. 



[Inclosure.] 



Provided, That the act of Congress approved March 16, 1906, entitled "An act 

 to provide for an increased annn;il appropriation for agricultural experiment 

 stations and regulating the expenditure thereof," shall be construed to appro- 

 priate the sum of $5,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, the sum of 

 $7,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1907, the sum of $9,000 for the fiscal 

 year ending June .30. 190S, the sum of $11,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1909, the sum of $i:!,000 lor the fiscal year ending June 30. 1910. and the sum of 

 $15,000 for the fiscal year ending June ;50, 1911, to be paid as provided in the 

 said act to each State and Territory for the more comitlete endowment and 

 maintenance of agricultural expcrini(>nt stations now established or which may 

 hereafter be established in accijrdance with the act of Congress approved ^larch 

 2, 1887. 



Owing to the consideration of the provisions for meat inspection 

 which were incorporated in the agricultural appropriation bill, that 

 bill was not passed until the closing da}^ of the fiscal year. As soon, 

 however, as the conferees had agreed upon the bill — June 29 — the 

 stations were advi.sed of the fact by telegraph. They actually had, 

 therefore, less than two days in which to ai'rango for spending the 

 first ajipropriation under the act. hut in (|uite a large number of 

 cases work had been begun soon after the act was passed and con- 

 siderable expense incurred, and in dther cases plans had been laid 

 lor the lines of work to be inidertaken and orders made out for 

 apparatus, scientific books, etc., which would be necessary to the con- 

 duct of these investigations. 



A circular e.\i)1aining the limitations of the fund, the period for 

 which it was available, etc., was mailed on .Tune .'?0. Following is a 

 copy of the circular: 



Junk .30, 1906. 



To the DutECToits oi iiii; Acitii n.i lEtAi, IIxitkimk.nt Stations: 



I'nder an ainrniliiicnl i;iri-if(l liy llif nu'rirnlt nr;il ,ippro|iri,iIinn ad jitissed 

 June 29, the benefits of llw Adams .\ct are made to apply to the fiscal year 



