704 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



the statutory roll, brings its total up to $697,920. The provisions for 

 fixing standards and for the insi:)ection of imported food products, 

 which were carried by the last appropriation act, Avere stricken out. 

 All sums or compensation paid to State or local officials in connection 

 with the food-inspection work are to be reported in detail to Congress 

 not later than next March. Sufficient authority for the fixing of 

 standards and other duties in connection with the execution of the law 

 are believed to be contained in the pure food law. 



For the Bureau of Entomology the amount was increased to 

 $130,010, an increase of $41,400, $10,000 of which may be used in 

 exjDcriments looking to the eradication of the " white fly." Tobacco 

 insects, especially in Kentucky and Tennessee, are included in the list 

 of pests to be studied. The Bureau receives $40,000 of the appropria- 

 tion for cotton boll weevil work, and an increase in the emergency 

 appropriation for combating the spread of the gypsy and brown-tail 

 moths from $82,500 to $150,000, the appropriation being made imme- 

 diately available. 



The Bureau of Statistics receives an increase of $8,380, its total 

 appropriation being $219,940, for the collection of statistics and the 

 study of foreign markets. 



The appropriation for the Bureau of Soils was decreased $15,000, 

 in view of the assignment of certain features of the tobacco work of 

 the Bureau to the Bureau of Plant Industry. The amount carried by 

 the act is $200,980. 



The Office of Experiment Stations received a considerable increase 

 in the statutory roll and in the appropriation for various lines of 

 work. The general maintenance fund was made $30,000, and the 

 appropriation for the Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Hico experiment 

 stations was increased $9,000 in the case of each, in order to make the 

 amount equal to that received by the State stations under the Adams 

 Act. For irrigation and drainage $150,000 was appropriated, an in- 

 crease of $27,800 over last year, and the $5,000 for farmers' institutes 

 and agricultural schools was continued. The general appropriation 

 for nutrition investigations was stricken out on a point of order, but 

 subsequently a clause was inserted providing $5,000 for packing, 

 moving, and storing the respiration calorimeter now housed in one of 

 the buildings of Wesleyan University. The total appropriation for 

 the Office, including that to the stations under the Hatch Act, is 

 $1,013,220. 



The same appropriation was made for the Biological Survey as 

 last year, $52,000, but the Secretary was directed to report to what 

 extent, if an3% the work now being done by the Survey is duplicated 

 by any other Department of the Government, and the practical 

 value of the work to the agricultural interests of the country. 



The appropriation for the Division of Publications was $161,550, 



