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Alberta, in October. An exhibit is also to be prepared for the Fifth 

 International Corn Exposition, to be held at Columbia, S. C, from 

 January 27 to February 9, 1913. 



The continued spread of the chestnut bark disease, for combating 

 which $5,000 was granted last year, has led to an increase of the fimd 

 to $80,000. It is provided that $10,000 of this sum is to be expended 

 in the study of the relation of insects to the disease. 



Provision for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia is 

 made in a special clause carrying $95,329. A portion of this sum 

 will be utilized for the rental of a modern six-story office building 

 now nearing completion on ground practically adjoining the present 

 laboratory buildings of the Department. The first four stories of 

 this structure will be divided among several offices of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry which do not require laboratory facilities, and the 

 remainder will be occupied by the Office of Experiment Stations, 

 housing all of its activities except its nutrition investigations. 



About one-tenth of the total appropriation is allotted to the 

 Weather Bureau, which receives $1,619,680, an increase of $19,430. 

 There is considerable readjustment of the various allotments, but it 

 is expected that the increase will permit of additional employees 

 and the more complete distribution of storm and frost warnings in 

 connection with the protection of orchards and other crops. For 

 the investigations in climatology and meteorology the previous allot- 

 ment of $120,000 is reduced to $115,000. 



The Bureau of Animal Industry also receives an enlarged appro- 

 priation, its total being $1,670,316. This, of course, does not include 

 the permanent appropriation of $3,000,000 per annum provided for 

 the Federal meat inspection in the act of 1906. The fimd for inspec- 

 tion and quarantine work is slightly increased to provide for the 

 maintenance of the recently acquired quarantine stations at the ports 

 of Baltimore and Boston, and for the further extension of the work 

 in the eradication of tuberculosis in domestic animals. The Dairy 

 Division will receive $177,900, this including a net increase of $28,500 

 for the maintenance of the dairy work at the experimental farm at 

 Beltsville, Md., the extension of the market milk and other educa- 

 tional work, and studies of the utilization of creamery by-products. 



The allotment for cooperative experiments in animal feeding and 

 breeding is doubled, the increase of $50,000 being in connection with 

 the new project for experiments in breeding horses for military pur- 

 poses. Increasing difficulty is reported by the War Department in 

 securing remounts of the special types desired. Under the plan pro- 

 posed the Government will purchase stallions of suitable type for 

 free service in a number of districts, retaining under these conditions 

 an option for the War Department on the foals. The remaining ap- 



