630 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The Weather Bureau receives a total of $1,392,990, an increase of 

 $55,250 over last year. Of the total appropriation, $725,480 is specific- 

 ally mentioned for salaries for the local force and the observers and 

 other employees throughout the country, although this does not 

 include the entire salary roll, the maintenance of the printing office 

 of the Bureau, for example, and certain other employees being pro- 

 vided out of the fund for general expenses. There is a provision of 

 $88,000 for the construction of Weather Bureau buildings, cables, and 

 telegraph lines; and a penalty is fixed by the act for counterfeiting 

 weather forecasts or warnings which are represented to have been 

 issued by the Weather Bureau. 



The largest increase for any single line of work is for the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry — $177,120. The total for the Bureau for the next 

 year is $1,540,000, the principal increase being for its inspection work 

 and the laboratory investigations connected therewith. The item of 

 $25,000 for experiments in animal breeding and feeding in coopera- 

 tion with the experiment stations, which was introduced last year, is 

 continued. 



The total appropriation for the Bureau of Plant Industry is $776,880, 

 an apparent increase of $32,450. A newclause carries an appropriation 

 of $25,000 for special investigations, in cooperation with the experi- 

 ment stations, on grain growing, including the development of varieties 

 suited to the semiarid districts and high altitudes, increasing the hardi- 

 ness of winter grains to enable their farther extension northward, 

 determination of methods of culture for di tie rent districts, and studies 

 upon the cause of deterioration of grain from the milling standpoint, 

 and the conditions affecting the quality of grain when stored and in 

 transit. All of the lines of work provided for in the previous appro- 

 priation are continued. These include, in general, investigations in 

 vegetable pathology and physiology, pomology and the handling of 

 fruit, botany, grasses and forage plants, farm management, tea cul- 

 ture, plant introduction, the production of domestic sugar, and the 

 operation of the Arlington Experimental Farm. 



The appropriation for the Forest Service, including the manage- 

 ment of the forest reserves, is Ss75,140, and the act defines the duties 

 of the Bureau of Forestry in the policing and administration of these 

 reserves. This is $450,000 more than the Bureau received this year, 

 and as the amount appropriated for the forest reserves last year was 

 $375,000, there is an evident increase of about $75,000 for the other 

 work of the Bureau. 



The Bureau of Chemistry receives $155,000, an increase of about 

 $5,000, the item for investigations relating to table sirup being 

 reduced from $15,000 to $3,000. The appropriation for the Bureau 

 of Soils is practically $10,000 less than last year— $204,600; and that 

 for the Bureau of Entomology is increased $2,000, making $84,470; 



