EDITORIAL. 307 



The Biological Survey will receive $191,400 as compared with 

 $139,700 in 1912^ its increases being mainly for the administration of 

 the additional game preserves already mentioned. A special allot- 

 ment of $3,000 is made for the destruction of ground squirrels in 

 the National Forests in California. The general appropriation for 

 biological investigations and the mapping of life zones was reduced 

 from $20,000 to $10,000. 



The various activities of the Office of Experiment Stations were con- 

 tinued, and in several cases with slightly enlarged appropriations. 

 The total is $1,871,700, of which $1,440,000 is allotted to the State 

 experiment stations under the Hatch and Adams Acts. Of the re- 

 mainder $58,240 is for statutory salaries, $38,400 (a net increase of 

 $2,500) for general expenses, and $15,760 (an increase from $10,000) 

 for the agricultural education service. The Alaska, Hawaii, and 

 Porto Rico stations will again receive $30,000 each, and the Guam 

 Station $15,000. 



The nutrition and drainage investigations each received small 

 increases, the former being allotted $16,000 and the latter $100,000. 

 For irrigation investigations $98,300 was granted, and a special in- 

 vestigation was directed of the feasibility and economy of irrigation 

 by the reservoir system in western Kansas and Oklahoma. 



The Office of Public Roads will have at its disposal $202,120, an 

 apparent increase of $41,400. This increase will permit of addi- 

 tional assistance in meeting the rapidly growing demand for advice 

 upon road construction and maintenance^, and especially for addi- 

 tional field experiments in road making, road materials, and related 

 questions. 



A small increase is provided for the Bureau of Statistics, which 

 will receive $240,680. The inquiries already mentioned as to mar- 

 keting methods are included in the allotments of this Bureau. 



The work of the remaining branches was continued much as at 

 present, but with small increases in each case. The Office of the 

 Secretary is given $292,280, the Library, $41,280; the Division of 

 Accounts and Disbursements, $104,620 ; and the Division of Publica- 

 tions, $219,700 ; and the fund for contingent expenses is $106,066. 



In connection with the appropriations included in the act itself 

 reference should also be made to the funds derived in other ways. 

 Mention has already been made of the permanent appropriation of 

 $3,000,000 for the meat-inspection work and to the annual appropria- 

 tion of $2,000,000 for the purchase of lands under the Appalachian 

 Forest Reserve Act. There are also available until expended an 

 appropriation of $200,000 for the protection from fire of forested 

 watersheds of navigable streams, to be expended in cooperation with 

 the States upon request, and a small appropriation for the feeding 

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