b EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



ments, and $40,160 for miscellaneous forest studies and the dissemi- 

 nation of results. The selection and segregation of lands within 

 National Forests that may be opened to entry under the homestead 

 laws is to be continued under an appropriation of $100,000, with an 

 additional allotment of $85,000 for the survey and listing of those 

 lands chiefly valuable for agriculture. 



The appropriations of the Bureau of Chemistry are increased 

 from $1,058,140 to $1,077,581. The allotment for the enforcement 

 of the Food and Drugs Act is $634,301, with $4,280 additional for 

 the study and inspection of American food exports, $50,000 for 

 studies of the handling and marketing of poultry and eggs, $20,000 

 for similar work with fish, oysters, etc., $10,000 for biological in- 

 vestigations of food and drug products and their constituents, and 

 $52,400 for general investigations. Because of a transfer to the 

 Bureau of Standards of the work of testing miscellaneous supplies 

 purchased on contract for the various Departments of the Govern- 

 ment, the appropriation for this purpose is reduced from $40,000 

 to $14,000. 



The various lines of work of the Bureau of Soils and the Bureau 

 of Entomology are continued much as at present, with small in- 

 creases in a number of items. The Bureau of Soils receives $360,635, 

 an increase of $26,615, of which $11,500 is to extend the inquiry as 

 to possible sources of natural fertilizers, particularly nitrogenous 

 materials. The soil survey work of the Bureau is granted $169,800, 

 with $20,000 additional for the examination and classification of 

 agricultural lands in forest reserves in cooperation with the Forest 

 Service, $15,265 for studies in soil physics, $22,350 for chemical in- 

 vestigations, and $32,700 for soil fertility work. The increase of 

 $87,210 accorded the Bureau of Entomology is divided among its 

 studies of several groups of insects, the largest single item of ex- 

 penditure being as usual that for the gipsy and brown-tail moth cam- 

 paign, for which $310,000 is available. The total appropriation of 

 the Bureau is $829,420. 



The Bureau of Biological Survey is granted $281,290, an increase 

 of $110,300. This appropriation is to be used principally for ad- 

 ministrative and police purposes, $66,000 being allotted for the 

 enforcement of the Lacey and McLean laws for the regulation of 

 imports and interstate movement of game, birds, etc., $21,000 for 

 the maintenance of the various game preserves and transfer of game, 

 and $5,000 for the improvement of an additional preserve in Sullys 

 Hill Park, North Dakota. The appropriations for studies of the 

 food habits of birds and mammals and for other biological investi- 

 gations, however, are nearly doubled, $15,000 being granted for the 

 destruction of ground squirrels on National Forests, $5,000 for the 

 study of a serious disease of wild ducks in Utah, $95,000 for the 

 destruction of wolves, prairie dogs, and other injurious animals, 



