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the State experiment stations are continued unchanged. The cooper- 

 ative demonstration work in the cotton l)elt receives $059,560, and 

 the work with farmers' institutes and agricultural schools $20,600. 



The act appropriates $701,600 for the Office of Public Roads and 

 Rural Engineering as compared with $599,200 for the current year. 

 Of this increase $75,000 is for the erection of the laboratory building 

 already noted, and $5,000 for an extension of the studies of miscel- 

 laneous rural-engineering problems. The remainder will be used to 

 meet the increased demands for studies of road management and road 

 materials in connection with the Federal-aid Road Act. The appro- 

 priations under this act for the year will aggregate $10,000,000, of 

 which $300,000 may be used by the Department for the administra- 

 tion of the act, and with $1,000,000 additional for the construction of 

 roads and trails in the National Forests. 



The new Bureau of Markets receives $1,718,575, which nearly 

 doubles the allotment to the Office of Markets and Rural Organiza- 

 tion in the act for the current year. A considerable part of this in- 

 crease, however, is due to transfers to the Bureau of duties hitherto 

 not specifically assigned to it. Among these are the grain standardi- 

 zation studies transferred from the Bureau of Plant Industry and 

 increased to $106,590. There is also $519,140, a net increase of 

 $271,340, for the enforcement of the United States Grain Standards 

 Act; $59,620 for the United States Warehouse Act; $98,600 for the 

 United States Cotton Futures Act; and $4,000 for the act of August 

 31, 1916, to fix standards for Climax baskets and other containers 

 for fruits and vegetables. 



A net increase of $71,000 is provided for the market news service 

 as to fruits and vegetables, of which $40,000 is made immediately 

 available for work with crops in transit during the present fiscal 

 year. There are also small increases for the market reports on live 

 stock and meats, the studies of market grades and standards, the cot- 

 ton standardization work, and for cooperation with the States in 

 marketing studies and demonstrations. 



The allotment for the Office of Farm Management is increased 

 from $225,810 to $305,810, thereby allow^ing for a further extension 

 of the farm-management surveys and the enlargement of some of the 

 survey units. An item of $5,000 carried for several years for studies 

 of the utilization of logged-off lands is omitted. 



An increase from $75,000 to $125,000 is provided for the Federal 

 HorticulturalBoard, which administers the Plant Quarantine x\ct, to 

 prevent if possible the introduction of the pink bollworm of cotton. 

 This serious pest has recently been discovered in the Laguna district 

 of Mexico and its dissemination is feared through inipoi-tations of 

 cotton and cotton seed from that country. Strict quarantine pro- 



