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The appropriation bill for the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, carries the following gen- 

 eral items : for the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, $80,500 ; for 

 investigations regarding the extension of foreign markets for agricul- 

 tural products, $2,500; Division of Accounts and Disbursements, 

 $19,100; Division of Statistics, $136,100, of which $15,000 is for maps 

 and charts illustrating the progress of rural production and crop distri- 

 bution, and for special investigations of the agricultural statistics of the 

 Eocky Mountain region; Division of Botany, $48,600; Division of 

 Entomology, $37,300, of which $2,500 is for an investigation of the cotton 

 boll- worm ; Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, $24,860 ; 

 Divisionof Pomology, $11,300; Division of Microscopy, $6,700; Division 

 €f Vegetable Pathology, $20,600 (investigations of peach yellows, Cali- 

 fornia grape diseases, root rot and blight of cotton, pear blight, and 

 diseases of the orange are especially required); Division of Chemistry, 

 $36,500, of which $12,500 is for the continuance of investigations of the 

 adulteration of food, drugs, and liquors ; $50,000 is also appropriated 

 for experiments in the manufacture of sugar, one half of which is for a 

 thorough trial of the method of making sorghum sugar by treating the 

 sirup with alcohol; Division of Forestry, $22,820; Division of Eecords 

 and Editing, $6,300; Division of Illustrations, $19,000 ; Division of 

 Seeds, $118,920; $150,000 is also appropriated for the distribution of 

 seeds to drought sufferers in the West ; Document and Folding Koom, 

 $10,460; Experimental Grounds and Garden, $31,000; Museum, 

 especially for its reorganization, $7,840; fiber investigations, $10,000; 

 Library, $3,000 ; furniture, repairs, postage, and contingent expenses, 

 $42,000; Bureau of Animal Industry, including $15,000 for quarantine 

 stations, $515,000; Agricultural Experiment Stations, $728,000, includ- 

 ing $20,000 for the Office of Experiment Stations; Weather Bureau, 

 $889,753.50 ; total, $3,028,153.50. 



The principal increase in the total sum appropriated this year arises 

 from the transfer of the Weather Bureau from the War Department 

 to the Department of Agriculture, which will be made at the beginning 

 of the next fiscal year. 



