906 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



notably larger sums are available for Avliat may be termed its admin- 

 istrative duties, such as the management of the National Forests, the 

 pure food and drug inspection, and the campaign against the gipsy 

 moth and cattle tick, as well as for additional buildings and equip- 

 ment on the forest reserves and for the Weather Bureau. 



In the matter of general legislation the act perhaps contains no 

 measures of the large imp)ortance of the meat-inspection law or the 

 Nelson amendment, which have been such notable features in previous 

 years, although a number of new lines are provided, and some are 

 of considerable importance. Among these ma}^ be mentioned the in- 

 auguration of evaporation investigations and of studies of the preva- 

 lence and extent of tuberculosis among dairy cattle, the establishment 

 of a standard of cotton grading, the inspection of foods intended for 

 cxj^ort under certain conditions, and the making of denatured alco- 

 hol in small amounts under farm conditions. The sum of $10,000 is 

 appropriated for the testing of plants as to their suitabilitj^ for paper 

 making, and a like sum is available for an inquiry into the destruc- 

 tion of forests by the production of turpentine and resin and the 

 sources and methods of the industry, and for a report, in cooperation 

 with the Bureau of the Census, upon the production of the naval 

 stores industry. 



The President was directed to reserve not to exceed 12,800 acres of 

 the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana for a permanent 

 national bison range, for a herd of bison to be presented by the 

 American Bison Society, $30,000 being appropriated for payment of 

 these lands and $40,000 for fencing and the erection of buildings. 

 An amendment diverting $5,000 annually from the Morrill and Nel- 

 son funds of Cornell Universit,y to the Mount Tabor Industrial and 

 Manual Training School was adopted by the Senate, but eliminated 

 in conference. 



Under the new appropriation act the Weather Bureau receives 

 $1,662,260, an increase of $248,720, the latter chiefly for the erection 

 of additional buildings and the repair and improvement of those 

 now completed. Of this amount $60,000 was appropriated for the 

 erection of a main observatory building at Mount Weather, Va., to 

 replace that destroyed by fire October 23, 1907, and for the erection 

 of a central heating and lighting plant, together with $15,000 for 

 the completion of a physical laboratory and other buildings. The 

 establishment of new stations was authorized and $110,000 Avas appro- 

 priated for sites and buildings, of which $5,000 is to be used for the 

 reestablishment of the station at Pikes Peak. The work of the Bureau 

 was increased in scope by the addition of investigations on evapora- 

 tion. The limit of the cost of maintenance of the Bureau printing 

 office was raised from $18,000 to $30,000. 



