702 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The inspection duties of the Department are steadily increasing. 

 In addition to the meat and food inspection, the amount for grain 

 mspection is increased from $15,000 to $40,000, and the inspection of 

 seeds of grasses, clover, and alfalfa is continued. This police work is 

 quite a new feature and is one of the noteworthy tendencies in the 

 development of the Department. Without necessarily centralizing 

 this service, there are manifest advantages to the country at large 

 from a uniform control of certain products intended for interstate 

 shipment, and a much broader and more effective influence is exerted 

 than could be the case by the States working alone and independ- 

 ently. 



The act marks a more liberal tendency in the matter of salaries. 

 There were material increases in the salaries of the Secretar}^, Assist- 

 ant Secretar}^, and the chiefs of three bureaus, the latter being 

 brought up to $5,000. A provision was also inserted raising the 

 maximum salar}^ Avhich the Secretary is authorized to pay to investi- 

 gators or others engaged in scientific work from $3,000 to $3,500. 

 This is gratifying recognition of the merits of such service as com- 

 pared with that in other branches of Government and scientific work, 

 and of the position which agricultural investigation is attaining. 



The total amount carried by the agricultural appropriation act 

 for 1907-8 is larger than in any previous year by nearly $3,000,000. 

 The appropriation for '• routine and ordinary work '' is $8,692,290. 

 The emergency apjDroijriations and the increase for the agricultural 

 colleges for the coming year bring the total up to $9,447,290, to which 

 should be added a j)ermanent appropriation of $3,000,000 for meat 

 inspection. If to this is added the Adams fund for next yenr, 

 amounting to $432,000, which is administered by the Department and 

 hence is quite as properW included here as the Hatch fund, the grand 

 total is $12,879,292. The amount exceeds the appropriation of two 

 years ago (1905-G) by over $0,000,000, and represents an increase of 

 nearly 100 per cent. This increase is in large measure covered by the 

 extension of the inspection work of the Department upon meat and 

 other articles of food. 



The Bureau of Animal Industry now greatly exceeds all other 

 Bureaus in the amount of its fund. Its regular appropriation is 

 $1,032,480, a net increase of $85,500 over last year. To this is to be 

 added the funds for the eradication of the cattle tick in the South, 

 which is increased from $82,500 to $150,000. with $25,000 made imme- 

 diately available, and the permanent appropriation of $3,000,000 for 

 executing the meat inspection law. The latter was made permanent 

 legislation. The appropriation for animal-breeding experiments was 

 increased from $25,000 to $50,000, and an attempt to restrict one- 



