EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. IX. No. 10. 



The act of Congress making appropriation for this Department for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, carries the following general items: 

 Office of the Secretary, $84,300; Weather Bureau, $937,502; Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, $983,440, with $37,500 for printing seventy-five 

 thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of the Horse, 

 one-third for the use of the Senate and two-thirds for the use of the 

 House; Agricultural Experiment Stations, $760,000; Division of Sta- 

 tistics, $140,100, including $10,000 for the investigations on foreign 

 markets; Division of Botany, $28,800; Division of Forestry, $28,520; 

 Division of Agrostology, $18,100; Division of Vegetable Physiology 

 and Pathology, $20,500; Division of Pomology, $10,000; Division of 

 Biological Survey, $27,500; Division of Entomology, $29,500; Division 

 of Chemistry, $29,500, $7,500 of which, as heretofore, is for investigat- 

 ing the adulteration of foods, drugs, and liquors; Division of Soils, 

 $10,300; Nutrition Investigations, $15,000; Public Road Inquiries, 

 $8,000; Division of Seeds, $130,000; Division of Publications, $85,200, 

 of which $35,000 is for the preparation and printing of Farmers' Bul- 

 letins; Division of Accounts and Disbursements, $10,300; Library, 

 $12,900; Experimental Gardens and Grounds, $22,500; Domestic Sugar 

 Production, $7,000; Irrigation Information, $10,000; Museum, $2,500; 

 furniture, cases, repairs, and postage, $11,000; and contingent expenses, 

 $25,000. 



The total amount of the appropriation is $3,509,202, an increase of 

 $320,300 over the appropriation for the year ending June 30, 1898. 

 The principal increases are for the Weather Bureau and the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry. The Weather Bureau appropriation is increased 

 $53,800, and provision made for the establishment of 10 additional 

 stations and the erection of a small building on the Government reser- 

 vation at Sault Sainte Marie. There is an increase of $228,200 for the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry for extending the work of inspection and 

 of combating animal diseases, making the appropriation for these pur- 

 poses $900,000. Hog cholera is mentioned as one of the diseases which 

 may receive attention, and the expenditure of $50,000 is authorized, 

 $25,000 of which is to be immediately available, "for making and using 

 serum for the prevention and cure of hog cholera." 



A notable feature of the appropriation for seed distribution is the 

 setting aside of $20,000 for the introduction from foreign countries of 



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