2 EXPEKIMENT STATION KECOED. 



$4,000 to $4,500. Under the previous limit, a number of the more 

 experienced investigators have been drawn away from the Depart- 

 ment. 



B}^ a clause inserted in the section dealing with the Office of 

 Experiment Stations, funds are given the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to carry out the provisions of the Smith-Lever Extension Act. An 

 extension of the franking privilege is also included under which 

 all correspondence, bulletins, and reports for the furtherance of the 

 purposes of that act may be transmitted in the mails free of postage 

 by the college officer or other person connected with the extension 

 department of the college designated by the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, under regulations to be prescribed by the Postmaster General. 



Great interest was again "manifested in the demonstration and ex- 

 tension activities conducted by the Department itself, and some of the 

 largest increases carried in the act are those for their further devel- 

 opment. The sum of $400,000 is definitely allotted to farmers' 

 cooperative demonstration work outside the cotton belt, and $673,240 

 for similar demonstrations in the areas threatened by the boll 

 weevil. In the case of the latter work, a proviso is inserted restrict- 

 ing the expenditures to the funds provided and such cooperative 

 funds as may be voluntarily contributed by state, county, and 

 municipal agencies, associations of farmers and individual farmers, 

 universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, other 

 local associations of business men, business organizations, and indi- 

 viduals Avithin the State. The allotment for the campaign against 

 the cattle tick is increased from $325,000 to $iOO,000, of which 

 $50,000 may be used for live stock demonstration work in areas freed 

 of ticks. There is also an appropriation of $60,000 for experiments 

 and demonstrations in cooperation with States or individuals in 

 live stock production in the cane sugar and cotton districts, and one 

 of $40,000 to aid in the agricultural development of the govern- 

 ment reclamation projects by assisting settlers through demonstra- 

 tions, advice, and in other ways. 



Most of the various regulatory or police functions assigned to 

 the Department receive increased support. The permanent appro- 

 priation of $3,000,000 for meat inspection is supplemented by a 

 grant of $375,000, an increase of $175,000 over the previous year. 

 This increase is mainly because of additional work through the 

 inspection of imported meats, in accordance with the Tariff Act 

 of 1913. The meat inspection is also extended to reindeer. The 

 allotment for the enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act is in- 

 creased by $25,641, largely to meet the additional duties imposed 

 by the recent extension of the act to include meat and meat food 

 products and the amendment requiring the declaration of the net 



