908 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



in furtherance of the works, aims, and objects specified and author- 

 ized in and by this appropriation." 



The provisions of the previous year authorizing the extension of 

 the National Forests and the giving of advice to owners of wood- 

 lands as to their care were eliminated, but authority to aid other 

 Federal bureaus in the jDerformance of their duties in respect to the 

 National Forests was granted, and advances of money may hereafter 

 be made to chiefs of field parties for fighting forest fires. 



The Bureau of Chemistry received an increase of $128,800, chiefly 

 for additional expenses incident to the enforcement of the National 

 Food and Drug Act. Authority was granted to demonstrate and 

 illustrate the methods for the making of denatured alcohol on a 

 scale suited to the farmer or associations of farmers, and also to 

 investigate the character of the chemical and physical tests which 

 are applied to American food jDroducts in foreign countries, and, 

 on request, to inspect such products when intended for export to 

 countries requiring such tests. 



The appropriation for the Bureau of Soils was increased to $234,700, 

 a net increase of $27,800. Its work was provided for as at present 

 except for some changes as to the scope of the tobacco investigations. 



In the Bureau of Entomology the salary of the Entomologist was 

 increased from $3,250 to $4,000. The total appropriation was in- 

 creased $48,950, making $184,960, of which $10,000 is immediately 

 available. This appropriation, however, includes the boll-w^eevil in- 

 vestigations which have been carried in an emergency appropriation. 

 In addition, the Bureau has charge of the gipsy and brown-tail moth 

 campaign, for which an emergency appropriation of $250,000, an in- 

 crease of $100,000. Avas made, the entire appropriation being im- 

 mediately available. The silk investigations in progress for several 

 years are to be brought to a close. 



In connection with the Bureau of Biological Survey it will be re- 

 called that while the customary appropriation of $52,000 was granted 

 last year, the Secretary was directed to report to what extent, if any, 

 the work done b}^ the Survey was duplicated by any other Depart- 

 ment of the Government, and the practical value of the work to the 

 agricultural interests of the country. This report, according to 

 Chairman Scott of the House Committee on Agriculture, " demon- 

 strates clearly that the work of the Bureau is not a duplication of any 

 being done elsewhere, and that it is of direct and very great value to 

 agriculture;" and the work of the Bureau was accordingly continued 

 with an increase of $10,000 for biological investigations. 



The total ajDpropriation for the Office of Experiment Stations, in- 

 cluding $720,000 for the stations under the Hatch Act, is $1,034,620, 

 an increase of $21,400. This increase includes $3,400 for statutory 



