EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. VI. No. 8. 



The act of Congress making appropriations for the United States 

 Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 189G, 

 carries the following general items: For the Office of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, 804,140; Weather Bureau, $88."),G10; Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, §812,000, including $12,000 for quarantine stations; Office of 

 Experiment Stations, $30,000 ($15,000 is also appropriated for the 

 continuance of the investigations on the nutiitive value of humau foods 

 which are carried on through this office largely in co(>i)eration with the 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations); DivivSion of Statistics, 

 $14.5,160, of which $10,000 may be expended in continuing the investi- 

 gations concerning the feasibility of extending the demands of foreign 

 markets for the agricultural products of the United States; Division of 

 Entomology, $29,500; Division of Chemistry, $32,000, of which $5,000 

 is for the continuance of investigations of the adulterations of foods, 

 drugs, and liquors, and $5,000 for the continuance of the investigations 

 relative to the various typical soils of the United States, to determine 

 their chemical characteristics, and especially the nature of the nitrifying 

 organisms contained therein ($10,000 is also appropriated to continue 

 experiments in the manufacture of sugar) ; Division of Botany, $33,800 ; 

 Division of Forestry, $33,520 ; Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy, 

 $27,.5G0; Division of Pomology, $12,.500; Division of Vegetable Physiol- 

 ogy and Pathology, $20,500 ; Division of Microscopy, $7,300 ; Division of 

 Agricultural ^oils, $15,000; Division of Agrostology, $15,000; Division 

 of Seeds, $199,120, of which $50,000 may be expended for the preparation, 

 printing, and publishing of farmers' bulletins, two-thirds of which shall 

 be supplied to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress 

 for distribution among their constituents as seeds are distributed; 

 Division of Publications, $8,300; for illustrations and engravings, 

 $15,000; Document and Folding Uoom, $9,040; Division of Accounts and 

 Disbursements, $17,300; library, $6,000; museum, $5,400; ex]ierimental 

 gardens and grounds, $32,000; irrigation investigations, $15,000; inquir- 

 ies relating to public roads, $10,000; furniture, repairs, jiostage, and 

 contingent expenses, $37,000; total, $2,578,750. The act also contains 

 an appropriation of $720,000 for the agricultural experiment stations 

 established under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887. 



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