6 EXPERIMENT STATION EECOED. 



Bureau of Chemistry, aud $7,700 for additional expenses in the com- 

 pletion of' the fencing on the national bison range in Montana, which 

 were authorized earlier in the session. There are also administered 

 by the Department the jjermanent appropriations of $3,000,000 for 

 the federal meat inspection, and $720,000 for the Adams fund, which 

 next year reaches its maximum under the terms of the Adams Act. 

 These if added to the regular appropriations for the Department 

 would make a grand total of $17,755,336. 



The support of agricultural institutions by the Federal Government 

 is also manifested through several agencies not organically connected 

 with the Department of Agriculture. Most prominent are, of course, 

 the land-grant colleges for which large permanent appropriations 

 are provided by the Morrill acts and the Nelson amendment. There 

 are also several small annual appropriations, such as that in the 

 Indian approj^riation act of $5,000 to enable the Commissioner of 

 Indian Afl'airs to conduct experiments on the Indian school or agency 

 farms to test their adaptability, especially as to the introduction of 

 new crops; that carried in the diplomatic and consular appropria- 

 tion act of $4,800 for the payment of the quota of the United States 

 for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture; and 

 that recently authorized in the urgent deficiency appropriation act 

 for participation in the International Agricultural Exhibition at 

 Buenos Aires, of which $30,000 has been allotted to this Department. 



Could all of these various appropriations, some of which are 

 indefinite as to amount, be added together the aggregate Avould be 

 an imposing sum. Especially under the present conditions do they 

 constitute a substantial and gratifying confirmation as to the im- 

 portance attached by Coi^gress to the consistent promotion by the 

 Federal Government of both the art and the science of agriculture. 



